| 100% | BRAILLE | 7 | Louis —, 19th-century French inventor of a system of raised writing for the blind |
| 90% | BRAILLE | 7 | Louis —, 19th-century French inventor of a system of raised writing for blind people |
| 64% | MOON | 4 | William —, 19th-century inventor of a writing system for the blind |
| 43% | BRAILLE | 7 | Raised dot writing system for the blind |
| 42% | DEWEY | 5 | Melvil —, US inventor of a system for the classification of library books |
| 38% | BRAILLE | 7 | System of raised dots essential for blind people |
| 37% | CERES | 5 | Body in our solar system that was considered a planet in the first half of the 19th century |
| 37% | OTIS | 4 | Inventor of a braking system for cars |
| 36% | MERINOS | 7 | Type of sheep raised for wool in Vermont in the early 19th century until about 1840, when Vermont sheep-raising collapsed |
| 35% | EADS | 4 | 19th-century engineer with a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame |
| 35% | NIB | 3 | The very end of a pen, for writing with |
| 35% | REAUMUR | 7 | 18th-century French inventor of a temperature scale |
| 34% | EVIAN | 5 | French bottler of mineral water for over a century |
| 34% | BRITS | 5 | Inventors of linoleum and the A.T.M., for example |
| 34% | ETAPE | 5 | French word for a leg of the Tour de France |
| 33% | LIED | 4 | German song typically of the 19th century, performed by a soloist |
| 33% | BROCA | 5 | French physician for whom a part of the brain is named |
| 33% | MUNI | 4 | Paul —, Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar winner for The Story of Louis Pasteur |
| 33% | BRAILLE | 7 | Writing for the blind |
| 33% | BRAILLE | 7 | System of raised writing |
| 33% | RISORGIMENTO | 12 | Movement for the political unification of Italy in the 19th century |
| 33% | VOLTAIRE | 8 | French philosopher who wrote The Age of Louis XIV |
| 32% | DENIM | 5 | Material with a name that comes from a shortening of the French for "serge from Nîmes" |
| 32% | BRAILLE | 7 | Name of the writing system for visually disabled |
| 32% | COLT | 4 | Samuel —, 19th-century inventor of a type of revolver |
| 32% | LOUISBRAILLE | 12 | Blind educator who invented the touch system of reading and writing named after him: 2 wds. |
| 31% | HEGOTGAME | 9 | 1998 Public Enemy single written for a Spike Lee film of the same name |
| 31% | SAC | 3 | End of the French term for a no exit street |
| 31% | TANDEM | 6 | Type of bicycle from the 19th century that is built for two or more riders |
| 31% | ECLAIR | 6 | Creme-filled oblong pastry whose name comes from the French for a flash of lightning |