| 100% | LESPAUL | 7 | Musician with a Gibson line of guitars named for him |
| 44% | THYESTES | 8 | Brother of Atreus with a Seneca play named for him |
| 44% | SAINTOLAF | 9 | Patron of Norway with a Minnesota college named for him |
| 42% | THOR | 4 | God with a day of the week named after him |
| 41% | PONZI | 5 | Swindler with a ''scheme'' named for him |
| 41% | STRAT | 5 | Shortened name for a type of Fender guitar |
| 40% | LUTHIER | 7 | Proper name for a maker of guitars and lutes |
| 39% | IMAN | 4 | Supermodel with a cosmetics line for women of color |
| 38% | ASHE | 4 | Arthur with a stadium named for him |
| 38% | MAO | 3 | Leader with a jacket named for him |
| 38% | SOUSA | 5 | Composer with a horn named for him |
| 38% | PONZI | 5 | Swindler with a scheme named for him |
| 38% | MAGELLAN | 8 | Navigator with a strait named for him |
| 38% | NOBEL | 5 | Inventor with a prize named for him |
| 38% | IOR | 3 | Suffix with "super" for the name of a Great Lake |
| 37% | NIELS | 5 | Nobelist Bohr with a 32-Across named for him |
| 37% | LESPAUL | 7 | Namesake of a line of Gibson guitars |
| 37% | DENIM | 5 | Material with a name that comes from a shortening of the French for "serge from Nîmes" |
| 37% | PITOT | 5 | French physicist with a tube named for him |
| 37% | BOWIE | 5 | Alamo hero with a knife named for him |
| 37% | TSO | 3 | General with a Chinese dish named for him |
| 37% | XXX | 3 | German physicist with a unit named for him |
| 36% | UMA | 3 | Thurman with a species of lizards named for her |
| 36% | EARL | 4 | With 52-Across, type of tea named for a British prime minister |
| 36% | HESS | 4 | Russian chemist with a law of thermodynamics named after him |
| 35% | HOCHIMINH | 9 | North Vietnamese leader with a trail named for him |
| 35% | ASHE | 4 | Arthur with a New York stadium named for him |
| 35% | ASHE | 4 | Tennis great with a courage award named for him |
| 35% | FERMI | 5 | Physicist with a unit of distance named after him |
| 35% | ISAACSTERN | 10 | Musician with a Presidential Medal of Freedom |