| 100% | PASTEUR | 7 | Louis —, 19th-century French chemist and microbiologist who created vaccines for rabies and anthrax |
| 91% | LOUIS | 5 | & 16D 19th-century French chemist and microbiologist who created vaccines for rabies and anthrax |
| 34% | PASTEUR | 7 | Biologist who created a vaccine for anthrax |
| 30% | BRAILLE | 7 | Louis —, 19th-century French inventor of a system of raised writing for the blind |
| 30% | BRAILLE | 7 | Louis —, 19th-century French inventor of a system of raised writing for blind people |
| 29% | GALOIS | 6 | Évariste ___, 19th-century French math prodigy for whom a differential theory is named |
| 28% | VERA | 4 | Designer who created gowns for both Ivanka and Chelsea |
| 28% | NIEPCE | 6 | Nicephore —, French chemist and photographic pioneer who died in 1833 |
| 28% | EDNA | 4 | Designer Mode who creates costumes for Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl |
| 27% | PASTEUR | 7 | Louis __; Frenchman who developed Anthrax vaccine |
| 27% | PASTEUR | 7 | Louis who developed a rabies vaccine |
| 27% | WHEELER | 7 | Ella ___ Wilcox, 19th century American author and poet known for "Poems of Passion" |
| 27% | ALANMOORE | 9 | Graphic novelist who created "Watchmen" and "V for Vendetta" |
| 27% | GAUTIER | 7 | 19th-century French poet and dramatist Théophile |
| 26% | ALSTON | 6 | Charles who created murals for Harlem Hospital and the American Museum of Natural History |
| 26% | JANE | 4 | ___ Austen, 19th century English author known for "Sense and Sensibility" |
| 26% | LIN | 3 | ___-Manuel Miranda who created the soundtracks for "Moana" and "Encanto" |
| 26% | NERVAL | 6 | 19th-century French poet and writer, Gerard de __ |
| 25% | ETUDES | 6 | 19th-century French piano pieces for honing skills |
| 24% | HOLMES | 6 | Mary J. ___, 19th century American author known for "Tempest and Sunshine, Or, Life in Kentucky" |
| 24% | MANET | 5 | 19th century French painter |
| 24% | DELESSEPS | 9 | Ferdinand —, 19th-century French diplomat and developer of the Suez Canal |
| 24% | NOBEL | 5 | Alfred ___, Swedish chemist who is known for inventing dynamite and has an element named after him |
| 24% | MAURICEJARRE | 12 | French conductor and composer who won an Academy Award for Best Original Score for the 1984 movie "A Passage to India" (2 wds.) |
| 23% | BUNSEN | 6 | Robert —, 19th-century German chemist; co-discoverer of caesium and rubidium |
| 23% | LIEBIG | 6 | Justus —, 19th-century German chemist who founded agricultural chemistry |
| 23% | PASTEUR | 7 | French chemist Louis |
| 23% | BOER | 4 | Dutch word for farmer that was applied to European settlers of South Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries |
| 23% | EMILEZOLA | 9 | French writer and activist who saved Alfred Dreyfus |