| 100% | ANWAR | 5 | With 33-Down, 1978 Nobel Prize recipient |
| 60% | ANWAR | 5 | With 15-Down, 1978 Nobel Peace Prize winner |
| 59% | SADAT | 5 | 1978 Nobel Peace Prize recipient |
| 55% | MARIE | 5 | With 33-Across, first woman to win a Nobel Prize |
| 53% | SADAT | 5 | Anwar who shared the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize with Menachem Begin |
| 51% | SADAT | 5 | 1978 Nobel Peace Prize co-recipient Anwar |
| 50% | SADAT | 5 | 1978 Nobel Prize sharer |
| 49% | MALALAYOUSAFZAI | 15 | Youngest-ever Nobel Prize recipient |
| 49% | ICE | 3 | With 33 Down, kitchen grippers |
| 48% | DALAI | 5 | With 36-Down, 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner |
| 47% | ALASKAN | 7 | Word associated with 33 Down |
| 46% | SADAT | 5 | 1978 Peace Prize recipient |
| 46% | APPLE | 5 | With 33 Down, fanciful cans on some MacBook decals |
| 45% | ARCH | 4 | With 33 Down, death metal band with an adversarial name |
| 44% | ANNAN | 5 | Kofi ____, Nobel Prize recipient who passed away in 2018 |
| 44% | ANWAR | 5 | 1978 Nobel Peace Prize co-winner Sadat |
| 42% | HUME | 4 | John —, co-recipient with David Trimble of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 42% | JOHN | 4 | & 10A Co-recipient with David Trimble of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 42% | SADAT | 5 | Egyptian president who won 1978 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 42% | ANWARSADAT | 10 | One of two 1978 Nobel Peace Prize winners |
| 42% | ECONOMICS | 9 | Latest Nobel prize with first winners in 1969 |
| 42% | WATSON | 6 | James __ shared Nobel prize with Crick and Wilkins |
| 42% | MANDELA | 7 | He shared a Nobel Prize with de Klerk |
| 41% | EIDER | 5 | Duck with prized down |
| 41% | ATA | 3 | With 33-Down, quickly |
| 41% | THE | 3 | With 33-Down, soulmate |
| 41% | OBAMA | 5 | Recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize |
| 41% | ELIE | 4 | Nobel Peace Prize recipient Wiesel |
| 41% | OZONE | 5 | With 33-Down, polar phenomena |