| 100% | MOLOTOV | 7 | Vyacheslav —, Soviet political leader after whom the — cocktail bomb, is named |
| 42% | SAM | 3 | Houston after whom the Texas city is named |
| 42% | POE | 3 | Writer after whom the Edgar Award is named |
| 42% | HENRY | 5 | Hudson after whom the Hudson River is named |
| 42% | PERRY | 5 | Antoinette after whom the Tony Awards are named |
| 42% | OHM | 3 | Georg Simon ___, physicist after whom the unit of resistance is named |
| 42% | VINCE | 5 | Lombardi after whom the Super Bowl trophy is named |
| 41% | VESPUCCI | 8 | Italian voyager after whom the New World was named |
| 41% | GREENS | 6 | The ___, political faction named after the color of grass, who are rivals to the Blacks in the drama series "House of the Dragon" |
| 41% | ABNEY | 5 | William de Wiveleslie —, scientist after whom the topographic — level is named |
| 40% | POE | 3 | Poet whom the Edgar Award is named after |
| 40% | TITOGRAD | 8 | Podgorica was named this after the Yugoslav leader |
| 40% | OHM | 3 | Georg Simon ___, German physicist after whom the unit of electrical resistance was named |
| 40% | MACADAM | 7 | John from Australia, after whom the macadamia nut was named |
| 40% | ATLAS | 5 | Titan after whom one of the oceans is named |
| 40% | EDWIN | 5 | Hubble who the Hubble Space Telescope was named after |
| 40% | ABNEY | 5 | William de Wiveleslie —, scientist after whom the surveying instrument a topographic — level is named |
| 40% | ALLAN | 5 | Edgar ___ Poe after whom the Edgar Award is named |
| 39% | RUTHERFORD | 10 | Scientist and physicist Ernest ___ after whom the element Rf with atomic number 104 is named |
| 39% | PLIMSOLL | 8 | Samuel —, 19th-century British politician after whom the load line on a ship is named |
| 39% | ERNEST | 6 | ___ Rutherford, New Zealand born physicist after whom the element with atomic number 104 was named |
| 39% | ASHE | 4 | Tennis great Arthur whom the US Open stadium is named after |
| 39% | MORPHEUS | 8 | Greek god whom the drug morphine was named after |
| 39% | LOMBARDI | 8 | Vince —, American football coach after whom the trophy for the Super Bowl championship game is named |
| 39% | MARIECURIE | 10 | Scientist and chemist after whom the element Cm with atomic number 96 is named: 2 wds. |
| 39% | LALANDE | 7 | Jerome —, French astronomer after whom a crater on the Moon is named |
| 37% | MOHS | 4 | Friedrich —, German scientist after whom a scale for expressing the hardness of minerals is named |
| 37% | BAFFIN | 6 | William —, 17th-century navigator after whom — Bay in the Northwest Passage west of Greenland is named |
| 37% | RICHTER | 7 | Charles —, US seismologist after whom a scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake is named |