| 100% | BEAUFORT | 8 | Hydrographer Francis who developed a wind scale |
| 49% | MOHS | 4 | Friedrich who developed a scale of mineral hardness |
| 49% | CELSIUS | 7 | Swede who developed a temperature scale |
| 44% | BEAUFORT | 8 | Francis —, British rear admiral who devised a scale of wind velocities in 1805 |
| 39% | PASTEUR | 7 | Louis who developed a rabies vaccine |
| 39% | SALK | 4 | Jonas who developed a polio vaccine |
| 39% | SABIN | 5 | Albert who developed a polio vaccine |
| 38% | PITMAN | 6 | Sir Isaac who developed a shorthand method |
| 37% | SALK | 4 | Scientist Jonas who developed a vaccine for polio |
| 37% | SALK | 4 | Jonas —, US virologist who developed a vaccine against poliomyelitis |
| 34% | SCHICK | 6 | Bela —, Hungary-born paediatrician who developed a test to determine susceptibility to diphtheria |
| 34% | OHM | 3 | German physicist Georg Simon ___ who developed quite a resistance? |
| 34% | PRODUCER | 8 | Person who develops, plans and makes a film happen |
| 32% | MOHS | 4 | Mineralogist for whom a scale is named |
| 32% | HURLER | 6 | One who winds up on a field |
| 32% | MOHS | 4 | Mineralogist who created a scale |
| 32% | ANAIS | 5 | Singer Mitchell who developed her album Hadestown into a Tony-winning musical |
| 31% | MOHS | 4 | Friedrich who created a scale of hardness |
| 31% | DEMISEXUAL | 10 | Like someone who develops physical attraction after they've formed a close emotional bond |
| 31% | AIRBENDER | 9 | Being who can control the wind, on a Nickelodeon series |
| 30% | FLUTISTS | 8 | People who play a high-pitched wind instrument |
| 30% | KINSEY | 6 | Sexologist who created a scale to measure sexual orientation |
| 29% | MOHS | 4 | German scientist Friedrich who lent his name to a mineral-hardness scale |
| 29% | OHARA | 5 | Catherine —, actress who played Mickey Crabbe in 2003 comedy A Mighty Wind |
| 29% | LEVY | 4 | Eugene —, actor who played Mitch Cohen in 2003 comedy A Mighty Wind |
| 29% | FIVE | 4 | Maximum on a hurricane wind scale |
| 29% | OHARA | 5 | Catherine —, actress who played Mickey Crabbe in 2003 film comedy A Mighty Wind |
| 29% | LEVY | 4 | Eugene —, actor who played Mitch Cohen in 2003 film comedy A Mighty Wind |
| 29% | LEVON | 5 | Title character in a ballad who "wears his war wound like a crown" |
| 28% | PIANOTUNER | 10 | One who works on a grand scale? |