| 100% | UFFAFOX | 7 | Isle of Wight-born sailor and boat designer who died in 1972 |
| 38% | OSBORNEHOUSE | 12 | Holiday home on the Isle of Wight where Queen Victoria died in 1901 |
| 37% | JUNKERS | 7 | Hugo —, German engineer and aircraft designer who died in 1935 |
| 36% | JEKYLL | 6 | Gertrude —, London-born garden designer who died in 1932 |
| 35% | VOYSEY | 6 | Charles —, British architect and designer who died in 1941 |
| 35% | IOW | 3 | Isle of Wight, in short |
| 35% | FOKKER | 6 | Anthony —, Dutch aircraft designer who died in 1939 |
| 35% | SCHIAPARELLI | 12 | Elsa —, Italian fashion designer who died in 1973 |
| 35% | LAROCHE | 7 | Guy —, French fashion designer who died in 1989 |
| 35% | HEINKEL | 7 | Ernst —, German aircraft designer who died in 1958 |
| 35% | LAURA | 5 | & 6D Welsh fashion designer who died in 1985 |
| 34% | RICARDO | 7 | David —, British economist born in 1772 who authored The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation |
| 34% | TONIMORRISON | 12 | Author who died in 2019 and was, as David Remnick wrote, “unsparing in her depiction of people who would use language to evil ends” |
| 33% | PLATO | 5 | Chidi’s response to “It’s like, who died and left Aristotle in charge of ethics?,” on “The Good Place” |
| 33% | EZRA | 4 | & 7A US poet who died in Venice, Italy in 1972 |
| 33% | NELLGWYN | 8 | Actress and mistress of Charles II who died in 1687 |
| 33% | MAGI | 4 | The —, sages in the Gospel of Matthew who visited Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born |
| 33% | YITZHAKRABIN | 12 | Former Prime Minister of Israel and Nobel Peace Prize winner who was born in 1922 (2 wds.) |
| 33% | AIDA | 4 | Slave who dies in the Temple of Vulcan |
| 33% | AIDA | 4 | Princess who dies in the temple of Vulcan |
| 33% | YODA | 4 | Guru who dies in "Return of the Jedi" |
| 32% | KURTVONNEGUT | 12 | American novelist in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame who was born in 1922 (2 wds.) |
| 32% | IANPAISLEY | 10 | Northern Ireland religious and political leader who died in 2014; co-founder of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster |
| 32% | ERNIE | 5 | With 35-Across, baseball player who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013 and died 1/23/15 |
| 31% | ELI | 3 | Actor Wallach who died in 2014 at the age of 98 |
| 31% | ASTOR | 5 | John Jacob ___ IV (millionaire who died in the sinking of the Titanic) |
| 31% | ELDER | 5 | Pliny the ___ (Roman naturalist who died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius) |
| 31% | LEAR | 4 | TV producer Norman who died in December at the age of 101 |
| 31% | AMYWINEHOUSE | 12 | British singer who won five Grammys in 2008, including Best New Artist, and died of alcohol poisoning in 2011: 2 wds. |