| 100% | VASSAR | 6 | Matthew who founded a college in 1861 |
| 64% | ELLEN | 5 | With 28-Down, newswoman who founded a college in Claremont, Calif. |
| 47% | MACY | 4 | R.H. who founded a New York store in 1858 |
| 47% | CARTIER | 7 | Louis-François who founded a Parisian jewelry house in 1847 |
| 47% | IAMS | 4 | Animal nutritionist who founded a pet food company in 1946 |
| 46% | ASS | 3 | Mammal who found a "Lion's Skin," in an Aesop's fable |
| 45% | LLBEAN | 6 | Double-initialed outdoorsman who founded a retail company based in Freeport, Maine: 3 wds. |
| 44% | AMIES | 5 | Hardy —, dressmaker by appointment to Queen Elizabeth II who founded a fashion house in 1946 |
| 44% | CARNEGIE | 8 | Andrew ___, Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist who founded a steel company in Pittsburgh |
| 43% | DORM | 4 | Where a college student who's not in a frat might live |
| 43% | JEFFDANIELS | 11 | "Dumb and Dumber" actor who founded a theater for local actors in his Michigan hometown: 2 wds. |
| 43% | VASCODAGAMA | 11 | Portuguese explorer who found a sea route from Europe to India in the late 1400s: 3 wds. |
| 42% | LORDBYRON | 9 | Poet who kept a bear in his Trinity College rooms |
| 40% | STUDENTIDCARD | 13 | Kid at a college bar who seems, to me as a bouncer, too young to allow in |
| 40% | EFFECT | 6 | "The Butterfly ___," 2004 film starring Ashton Kutcher as a college student who can travel back in time |
| 40% | DEATH | 5 | "Happy ___ Day," 2017 film starring Jessica Rothe as a college student who is stuck in a time loop |
| 39% | PENN | 4 | Friend who founded a state |
| 39% | UTNE | 4 | Eric who founded a reader |
| 39% | MARIOPRADA | 10 | Italian designer who founded a brand in 1913 which also has a subsidiary brand called "Miu Miu": 2 wds. |
| 39% | ZEPPELIN | 8 | Count who founded the "Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Luftschiffahrt" in 1898, a venture that ended up with the Hindenburg |
| 39% | PICKWICK | 8 | Dickens protagonist who founded a club |
| 39% | DRE | 3 | Dr. who founded a record label |
| 39% | FORD | 4 | Henry who founded a car company |
| 39% | ELI | 3 | Lilly who founded a pharmaceutical company |
| 39% | PRADA | 5 | Mario who founded a fashion empire |
| 39% | DIOR | 4 | Christian who founded a fashion house |
| 39% | BARRON | 6 | Clarence who founded a financial weekly |
| 39% | CENA | 4 | John who plays a mercenary in "Peacemaker," and whose name can be found in "mercenary" |
| 39% | GLOCK | 5 | Gaston —, Austrian engineer who founded a company in 1963 that now makes firearms |
| 38% | IVIES | 5 | Colleges in a “League” |