| 100% | BEAUFORT | 8 | Francis —, British rear admiral who devised a scale of wind velocities in 1805 |
| 30% | BEAUFORT | 8 | Hydrographer Francis who developed a wind scale |
| 28% | EDSHEERAN | 9 | British singer who made a cameo in HBO series "Game of Thrones: 2 wds. |
| 28% | RODSTEWART | 10 | British singer/songwriter who had a Top 20 hit with his version of "Forever Young" in 1988 (2 wds.) |
| 28% | BANKSY | 6 | Anonymous British graffiti artist who created a series of artworks named "A Great British Spraycation" in 2021 |
| 28% | MOHS | 4 | Friedrich who created a scale of hardness |
| 27% | MOHS | 4 | Friedrich who developed a scale of mineral hardness |
| 27% | ROY | 3 | British singer Wood who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017 as a member of ELO |
| 26% | RANKINGS | 8 | Positions in a scale of achievement |
| 26% | OBOE | 4 | Wind in front of a stage |
| 26% | EMMATHOMPSON | 12 | "Howard's End" Oscar winner who was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2018 (2 wds.) |
| 26% | BEWICK | 6 | Thomas —, author of A History of British Birds who died in 1828 |
| 26% | DUNE | 4 | Wind formed ridge of sand in a desert |
| 26% | MAAM | 4 | British way of addressing a woman in position |
| 26% | REEL | 4 | A line winds in and out of it |
| 25% | OCTAVE | 6 | A series of eight notes in a musical scale |
| 25% | CHAPLAIN | 8 | A clergyman who is in charge of a chapel |
| 25% | BRUCELEE | 8 | A martial artist who starred in Fist of Fury |
| 25% | PARISIAN | 8 | A person who lives in the capital of France |
| 25% | TWELVE | 6 | Number of notes in a chromatic scale |
| 25% | RUSTLE | 6 | Sound of a willow in the wind |
| 25% | TEL | 3 | Monogram of a British soldier in Arabia |
| 25% | SKINNER | 7 | B F —, US behavioural psychologist who devised a box for studying the learning capacity of animals |
| 25% | CHICHESTER | 10 | Francis —, British yachtsman who sailed round the world in Gipsy Moth IV |
| 25% | EDWARDVIII | 10 | British monarch who reigned less than a year in 1936 |
| 25% | MEDIANT | 7 | In music, third degree of a major or minor scale |
| 25% | STEPHENHAWKING | 14 | British scientist who performed groundbreaking work in physics and cosmology and authored "A Brief History of Time": 2 wds. |
| 25% | LAH | 3 | Sixth note of a major scale in music |
| 25% | TONIC | 5 | First note of a diatonic scale in music |
| 25% | PILOT | 5 | Person who sits in front of a cabin |