| 100% | ASIMOV | 6 | Writer after whom an asteroid and Mars crater are named |
| 44% | POE | 3 | Writer after whom the Edgar Award is named |
| 43% | NOBEL | 5 | Alfred ___, Swedish chemist who is known for inventing dynamite and has an element named after him |
| 43% | PIMA | 4 | People after whom an Arizona county is named |
| 43% | ATLAS | 5 | Greek god after whom an ocean is named |
| 43% | BOHR | 4 | Niels ___, Danish physicist who is known for his atomic model and has an element named after him |
| 42% | VOLTA | 5 | Italian scientist after whom an electrical unit is named |
| 42% | AMPERE | 6 | French physicist after whom an electric unit is named |
| 41% | LISE | 4 | ___ Meitner, Austrian-Swedish physicist who is known for her work on nuclear fission and has an element named after her |
| 41% | LISA | 4 | Daughter of Steve Jobs, after whom an early Apple computer was named |
| 41% | FERMI | 5 | Enrico ___, Italian physicist who is known for creating the world's first nuclear reactor and has an element named after him |
| 41% | CURIE | 5 | Marie and Pierre ___, Polish and French scientists who are known for their research on radioactivity and have an element named after them |
| 40% | VOLTA | 5 | 18th century scientist Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio ___, after whom an electrical unit was named |
| 39% | LAGUARDIA | 9 | Fiorello H —, mayor of New York City from 1934-45 after whom an airport is named |
| 39% | LALANDE | 7 | Jerome —, French astronomer after whom a crater on the Moon is named |
| 38% | LEAR | 4 | Artist Edward ___ (1812-88), after whom an endangered, all-blue macaw from Brazil's Bahia state is named |
| 37% | RICHTER | 7 | Charles —, US seismologist after whom a scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake is named |
| 37% | DENVER | 6 | Character from "Money Heist" that is named after an American city and is played by Jaime Lorente |
| 36% | AETNA | 5 | An insurance giant who is named after a volcano |
| 35% | ADE | 3 | Purdue stadium, the home of the Boilermakers, is named after Purdue alumni David E. Ross and writer and playwright George ___ |
| 35% | EDDIEVANHALEN | 13 | Guitarist whose rock band was named after him and his brother, and who never learned to read music: 3 wds. |
| 35% | ENO | 3 | Musician Brian who has an asteroid named after him |
| 35% | PUMA | 4 | Sportswear brand named after a big cat, for whom Olympic legend Usain Bolt is an ambassador |
| 35% | ELK | 3 | An antlered animal, after whom Alberta's ___ Island National Park is named |
| 34% | MARY | 4 | I wrote "Frankenstein" and shared my name with my mother who was a writer and a feminist philosopher |
| 34% | DESCARTES | 9 | René, after whom Cartesian coordinates are named |
| 34% | BORNTORUN | 9 | Bruce Springsteen's autobiography that was named after an iconic album and song of his, and was released in September 2016: 3 wds. |
| 34% | DAKOTA | 6 | Native American people after whom two US states are named |
| 34% | EUROPA | 6 | Figure in Greek myth after whom a continent is named |
| 34% | BOSC | 4 | French horticulturist after whom a variety of fruit is named |