| 100% | KELVIN | 6 | Physicist who calculated the lowest temperature |
| 43% | FERMI | 5 | Physicist who coined the word "neutrino" |
| 43% | ALVAREZ | 7 | Physicist who discovered the iridium layer |
| 43% | VOLTA | 5 | Physicist who invented the electric battery |
| 42% | BOHR | 4 | Physicist who worked on the atomic structure |
| 42% | THOMSON | 7 | Physicist who postulated the plum pudding model |
| 42% | ABSOLUTE | 8 | __ zero, the lowest possible temperature |
| 42% | COOL | 4 | Lower the temperature |
| 42% | FARADAY | 7 | Physicist who formulated the two laws of electrolysis |
| 42% | CHU | 3 | Physicist who co-won the Nobel in 1997 |
| 41% | COLD | 4 | In the low teens, temperature-wise |
| 41% | ALBERTEINSTEIN | 14 | Physicist who developed the theory of relativity: 2 wds. |
| 40% | FERMI | 5 | Physicist who conducted the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction |
| 39% | PAULDIRAC | 9 | Physicist who received the Nobel Prize and the Max Planck Medal |
| 39% | GEIGER | 6 | German physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus |
| 38% | HANSXIANOERSTED | 15 | Danish physicist who pioneered the study of electromagnetism |
| 38% | JOULE | 5 | Physicist James who contributed to the laws of thermodynamics |
| 38% | EINSTEIN | 8 | Physicist Albert whom Time called "Person of the Century" |
| 37% | CHADWICK | 8 | James __; physicist who discovered the neutron |
| 37% | JACKCOVER | 9 | American physicist who invented the Taser stun gun: 2 wds. |
| 37% | CHADWICK | 8 | James, the physicist who discovered the neutron |
| 36% | COLDFRONT | 9 | Harbinger of lower temperatures, and a hint to the answers to starred clues |
| 36% | EINSTEIN | 8 | Physicist Albert who came up with the special theory of relativity |
| 36% | FERMI | 5 | Enrico ___, physicist who coined the word "neutrino" |
| 36% | CHADWICK | 8 | Physicist James, who discovered the neutron |
| 36% | COLDFRONTS | 10 | Harbingers of lower temperatures, and a hint to the answers to the starred clues |
| 36% | COLDFRONT | 9 | It ushers in lower temperatures ... and what the answers to starred clues can have |
| 35% | OHM | 3 | Georg Simon ___, physicist after whom the unit of resistance is named |
| 34% | RICHARD | 7 | ___ Feynman, Nobel-winning physicist who earned a Bachelor of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 34% | FAHRENHEIT | 10 | Gabriel —, German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer |