| Holder of 1,093 patents | 23 |
| Wizard of Menlo Park | 20 |
| Prolific patentee | 17 |
| Kinetoscope inventor | 20 |
| "The Wizard of Menlo Park" | 36 |
| Universal Stock Ticker inventor | 31 |
| Tesla rival | 11 |
| Stock ticker innovator | 22 |
| National Inventors' Day is observed on his birthday | 55 |
| Microphone inventor | 19 |
| Menlo Park "wizard" | 29 |
| Light-headed person? | 20 |
| Light-bulb inventor | 19 |
| Light pioneer | 13 |
| Light industry pioneer? | 23 |
| Light heavyweight? | 18 |
| Light bulb innovator | 20 |
| Kinetoscope developer | 21 |
| Inventor who saw the light | 26 |
| Inventor of the stock ticker | 28 |
| Inventor from Menlo Park | 24 |
| He worked on a light schedule | 29 |
| "Wizard" born in Milan | 32 |
| Westinghouse adversary | 22 |
| Town near Metuchen, N.J. | 24 |
| Town in central New Jersey | 26 |
| Thomas who founded GE | 21 |
| Thomas Alva ____ | 16 |
| The "Ed" of Con Ed | 28 |
| That Menlo Park man | 19 |
| Tesla contemporary | 18 |
| T.A.E. | 6 |
| Subject of a 1940 biopic starring Spencer Tracy | 47 |
| Stock ticker's inventor | 27 |
| Stock ticker inventor | 21 |
| Sec. of the Navy: 1939–40 | 32 |
| Rival of Tesla | 14 |
| Phonograph cylinder inventor | 28 |
| One with a light workload? | 26 |
| One full of ideas | 17 |
| Ohio-born acquirer of well over 1,000 patents | 45 |
| New Jersey township | 19 |
| Menlo Park's claim to fame | 30 |
| Menlo Park whiz | 15 |
| Menlo Park resident | 19 |
| Menlo Park notable | 18 |
| Menlo Park man | 14 |
| Menlo Park inventor | 19 |
| Menlo Park genius | 17 |
| Menlo Park denizen | 18 |
| Light creator | 13 |
| Leading record label of the early 1900s | 39 |
| It's north of Highland Park, N.J. | 37 |
| Inventor with a bright idea? | 28 |
| Inventor with a bright idea | 27 |
| Inventor who said "There is no substitute for hard work" | 66 |
| Inventor who rivaled Tesla | 26 |
| Inventor Thomas | 15 |
| Inventor of the phonograph | 26 |
| Inventor of the electric car battery | 36 |
| Inventor of Menlo Park | 22 |
| Inventor friend of Henry Ford | 29 |
| Inventing immortal | 18 |
| Inventing "wizard" | 28 |
| Holder of 1000+ patents | 23 |
| Holder of 1,093 U.S. patents | 28 |
| His first patent was for an electric vote recorder | 50 |
| His first patent was for an "Electrographic Vote Recorder" | 68 |
| His birthday is National Inventors' Day | 43 |
| He was played in two 1940 films, by Mickey Rooney and Spencer Tracy | 67 |
| He was patently creative | 24 |
| He was no con man | 17 |
| He said, "To have a great idea, have a lot of them" | 61 |
| He patented the microphone | 26 |
| He lit up the world | 19 |
| He acquired over 1,000 patents | 30 |
| Founder of General Electric | 27 |
| Fluoroscope inventor | 20 |
| Famous lab director | 19 |
| Famed patentee | 14 |
| Famed inventor | 14 |
| Eponymous New Jersey township | 29 |
| Eponymic New Jersey city | 24 |
| Electronics groundbreaker | 25 |
| Early name in talking machines | 30 |
| Contemporary of Tesla | 21 |
| Con follower | 12 |
| An inventor of the microphone | 29 |
| Acquirer of more than 1,000 patents | 35 |
| "War of Currents" combatant | 37 |
| "Speaking machine" developer | 38 |
| "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work" speaker | 90 |
| "___, the Man," 1940 biopic starring Spencer Tracy | 60 |
| ___ Electric Co. | 16 |
| ___ effect (1883 physics discovery) | 35 |
| Cut and paste | 13 |
| Prepare for publication | 23 |
| Computer menu option | 20 |
| Tend texts | 10 |
| Do newspaper work | 17 |