| PRIESTLEY | Enlightenment thinker Joseph who's credited with discovering oxygen |
| PONTI | Film producer credited with discovering Sophia Loren |
| UTE | People credited with discovering mechanoluminescence, using quartz crystals to generate light |
| SKOOKUMJIM | Tagish man co credited with discovering gold resulting in the Klondike Gold Rush of the Yukon: 2 wds |
| STANSELM | Benedictine monk, 11th-century archbishop of Canterbury, credited with discovering the 'ontological argument' for God's existence (2,6) |
| HYDROGEN | Element called “inflammable air” by Henry Cavendish, who is generally credited with discovering it |
| RONBURGUNDY | Anchorman character who's credited with writing the 2013 book Let Me Off at the Top! My Classy Life and Other Musings: 2 wds. |
| BARNEYSTINSON | How I Met Your Mother character who's credited with writing the 2008 book The Bro Code: 2 wds. |
| LESLIEKNOPE | Parks and Recreation character who's credited with writing the 2011 book Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America: 2 wds. |
| BERRA | Yankee Yogi who's credited with saying "When you come to a fork in the road, take it" |
| PAINE | Thomas ___, enlightenment thinker and author of Common Sense (1776) (5) |
| LOCKE | Enlightenment thinker who developed the concepts of empiricism and liberalism |
| KANT | 18th-century German philosopher and a central Enlightenment thinker, Immanuel _ (4) |
| HUMBOLDT | Wilhelm von ___, Enlightenment thinker known for writing The Limits of State Action (8) |
| EDY | Joseph who partnered with William Dreyer to make ice cream |
| HAYDN | Franz Joseph who was nicknamed "Papa" |
| ALSOP | Journalist Joseph who wrote the syndicated column 'Matter of Fact' |
| WISEMAN | Joseph who was Dr. No |
| BIDEN | Senator Joseph, who endorsed Gore |
| PAPP | Joseph who brought Shakespeare to Central Park |
