| 100% | UVA | 3 | Sch. founded by Thomas Jefferson |
| 94% | UVA | 3 | Charlottesville sch. founded by Thomas Jefferson |
| 94% | UVA | 3 | State sch. founded by Thomas Jefferson |
| 80% | UVA | 3 | Inst. founded by Thomas Jefferson |
| 77% | UVA | 3 | School founded by Thomas Jefferson: Abbr. |
| 77% | UVA | 3 | Charlottesville school founded by Thomas Jefferson: Abbr. |
| 77% | UVA | 3 | Charlottesville school founded by Thomas Jefferson (Abbr.) |
| 74% | UVA | 3 | Sch. founded by Jefferson |
| 73% | UVA | 3 | Sch. founded by Thos. Jefferson |
| 72% | UVA | 3 | School founded by Thomas Jefferson (and 15-Across's alma mater) (Abbr.) |
| 56% | UPENN | 5 | Sch. founded by Franklin |
| 55% | CREATED | 7 | "All Men are __ Equal": phrase by Thomas Jefferson |
| 55% | UVA | 3 | School founded by Thos. Jefferson |
| 55% | UVA | 3 | Institution founded by Thos. Jefferson |
| 55% | UVA | 3 | Sch. founded by a president |
| 55% | UPENN | 5 | Sch. founded by Ben Franklin |
| 55% | PENN | 4 | Sch. founded by Ben Franklin |
| 55% | PENN | 4 | Sch. founded by Benjamin Franklin |
| 54% | UVA | 3 | Inst. once helmed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison |
| 54% | ARIES | 5 | Thomas Jefferson or John Tyler, by birth |
| 54% | ORU | 3 | Sch. founded by a Pentecostal preacher |
| 54% | UVA | 3 | Sch. Jefferson founded |
| 51% | UVA | 3 | Sch. on Thomas Jefferson's gravestone |
| 51% | UVA | 3 | It was founded by Thos. Jefferson |
| 51% | ORU | 3 | Tulsa sch. founded by an evangelist |
| 46% | IBM | 3 | Corporate giant co-founded by Thomas Watson |
| 43% | LAT | 3 | Newspaper founded by Nathan Cole Jr. and Thomas Gardiner, first published just before Christmas in 1881 (abbr.) |
| 41% | DEMOCRATS | 9 | Political descendants of Thomas Jefferson |
| 41% | TWOS | 4 | Dollar bills featuring Thomas Jefferson |
| 41% | DEIST | 5 | Thomas Jefferson, religiously |