| 100% | DANDIE | 6 | & 23A Character in Walter Scott's novel Guy Mannering after whom a breed of terrier is named |
| 32% | BOSC | 4 | French horticulturist after whom a variety of fruit is named |
| 32% | PETRARCH | 8 | Italian poet after whom a style of sonnet is named |
| 32% | GAUSS | 5 | German physicist after whom a unit of magnetism is named |
| 32% | AEOLUS | 6 | Greek God after whom a type of harp is named |
| 32% | LOCKE | 5 | Philosopher after whom a character on "Lost" was named |
| 32% | RENO | 4 | Union General Jesse L. ___, after whom a city in Nevada was named |
| 31% | LUNA | 4 | ___ Lovegood, character in the "Harry Potter" series who was a part of Dumbledore's Army |
| 31% | CHO | 3 | ___ Chang, character in the "Harry Potter" series who was a part of Dumbledore's Army |
| 31% | ASHE | 4 | Arthur ___ after whom a famous tennis stadium in Queens is named |
| 31% | HEIMLICH | 8 | Henry J —, American surgeon after whom a manoeuvre for dislodging a foreign body in a person's windpipe is named |
| 31% | EIFFEL | 6 | Gustave —, French civil engineer after whom a tower in Paris is named |
| 31% | PINDUS | 6 | Son of Makedon in Greek mythology after whom a river in ancient Greece was named |
| 30% | HOUDAN | 6 | Breed of light domestic fowl named after a commune in Yvelines, France |
| 30% | CAPTAIN | 7 | & 22A Pirate after whom Long John Silver's parrot is named in 1883 Robert Louis Stevenson novel Treasure Island |
| 30% | MOOG | 4 | Robert —, US engineer born in 1934 after whom a type of musical synthesiser is named |
| 30% | MOOG | 4 | Robert —, US engineer born in 1934 after whom a type of musical synthesizer is named |
| 30% | MOHS | 4 | Friedrich —, German scientist after whom a scale for expressing the hardness of minerals is named |
| 30% | RICHTER | 7 | Charles —, US seismologist after whom a scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake is named |
| 30% | MASHAM | 6 | Small market town in North Yorkshire after which a breed of large sheep with a black-and-white face is named |
| 29% | UTE | 3 | People after whom a U.S. state is named |
| 29% | MOOG | 4 | Robert —, US engineer who died in 2005 after whom a type of musical synthesizer is named |
| 29% | LUTZ | 4 | Alois —, Austrian figure skater after whom a type of jump is named |
| 29% | UMBRIEL | 7 | Moon in Uranus named after a character of a poem |
| 29% | UTE | 3 | Tribe after whom a western U.S. state is named |
| 29% | UTE | 3 | Indigenous people after whom a U.S. state is named |
| 29% | MONROE | 6 | James ___, fifth President of the United States after whom a city in Louisiana is named |
| 29% | COOLIDGE | 8 | Calvin ___, 30th President of the United States after whom a city in Arizona is named |
| 29% | BUTCHCASSIDY | 12 | Title character in a classic western film who asks, "Who are those guys?" (2 wds.) |