| 100% | LINKLATER | 9 | John __, founder of international law firm in 1838 |
| 37% | CHAMBERS | 8 | In the UK, premises of a law firm of barristers |
| 35% | LENNON | 6 | Founder of The Beatles, John ___ |
| 35% | DIDO | 4 | Founder of Carthage, in myth |
| 35% | RENI | 4 | Baroque-era painter Guido, in whom John Ruskin found only “a few pale rays of fading sanctity” |
| 34% | BABAR | 5 | Founder of Celesteville, in children's lit |
| 34% | ANNLEE | 6 | Founder of the Shakers in America [1736] |
| 34% | REZASHAH | 8 | Founder of Pahlavi Dynasty in Iran in 1925 |
| 34% | RIPLEY | 6 | Founder of New York's Odditorium in 1939 |
| 34% | DOLE | 4 | Founder of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company in 1901 |
| 34% | ANNLEE | 6 | Founder of the first Shaker colony in America |
| 33% | CHAMPLAIN | 9 | Samuel __, founder of Quebec City in 1608 |
| 33% | IKEA | 4 | International retailer founded in Sweden |
| 33% | OPEC | 4 | International grp. founded in Baghdad |
| 33% | BONAFIDES | 9 | In law, honesty of intention |
| 33% | GYPSUM | 6 | Found in plaster of paris |
| 32% | PTOLEMY | 7 | Macedonian founder of Egyptian kingdom in 305 BC |
| 32% | ANNLEE | 6 | Founder of the Shakers, in the U.S. |
| 32% | DELOITTE | 8 | International accounting firm based in London |
| 32% | AMPERSANDS | 10 | Parts of many law firm names |
| 32% | NATO | 4 | International defense group founded in 1949 |
| 32% | ROTARY | 6 | International service club, founded in 1905 |
| 32% | ALDI | 4 | International grocery chain founded in Germany |
| 32% | SBARRO | 6 | International pizza chain founded in Brooklyn |
| 32% | NISI | 4 | In law, a type of decree |
| 32% | HOTEL | 5 | Found in a game of Monopoly |
| 32% | ATLOOSENDS | 10 | In the rear of some johns? |
| 32% | BRUCELEE | 8 | Founder of the Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute in the 1960s |
| 32% | MORTWALKER | 10 | International Museum of Cartoon Art founder, 1974 |