| 100% | DUBOIS | 6 | Founding editor of The Crisis |
| 74% | ROSS | 4 | Founding editor of The New Yorker |
| 73% | MURRAY | 6 | Founding editor of the O.E.D. |
| 61% | ANA | 3 | ___ Marie Cox (founding editor of the blog Wonkette) |
| 54% | CRISES | 6 | Plural of the word crisis |
| 52% | SHAWN | 5 | William ___, longtime editor of The New Yorker |
| 52% | HANSARP | 7 | Founding member of the Dadaists |
| 52% | MEGATRON | 8 | Founding leader of the Decepticons |
| 51% | DEAN | 4 | ___ Baquet, executive editor of The New York Times |
| 51% | BEN | 3 | ___ Bradlee, editor of The Washington Post during Watergate |
| 51% | MARGARETFARRAR | 14 | First puzzle editor of The New York Times |
| 51% | MIAHAMM | 7 | Founding member of the Washington Freedom |
| 51% | ARTROONEY | 9 | Founding owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers |
| 51% | AQUAMAN | 7 | Founding member of the Justice League |
| 51% | YEMEN | 5 | Founding member of the Arab League |
| 51% | ABRAHAM | 7 | Founding father of the Jewish religion |
| 50% | DIDEROT | 7 | Denis —, 18th-century philosopher; chief editor of the Encyclopedie |
| 50% | SHAWN | 5 | William ___, editor of The New Yorker for 35 years |
| 50% | LENNON | 6 | Founding member of the Plastic Ono Band |
| 50% | DEISTS | 6 | Many of the Founding Fathers |
| 50% | EQUALITY | 8 | Philosophy of the Founding Fathers |
| 49% | UAL | 3 | Founding member of the Star Alliance, for short |
| 49% | USSR | 4 | Founding member of the U.N. Security Council |
| 49% | DEISTS | 6 | Many of the founding fathers, religiously |
| 49% | PETRODOLLAR | 11 | Coinage of the 1973 oil crisis |
| 49% | NERI | 4 | Congregation of the Oratory founder Philip |
| 49% | ZENO | 4 | Founder of the Stoics |
| 49% | AVERAGED | 8 | Found the middle of? |
| 49% | ANNLEE | 6 | Founder of the Shakers |
| 49% | CEO | 3 | Founder of the company |