| 100% | GRESHAM | 7 | Sir Thomas —, 16th-century financier who founded the Royal Exchange in London |
| 39% | HENRY | 5 | & 21D Conductor who founded the Promenade Concerts in London |
| 38% | WOOD | 4 | Henry —, conductor who founded the Promenade Concerts in London |
| 36% | LINACRE | 7 | Thomas —, chief founder and first president of the Royal College of Physicians in London |
| 35% | PHNOMPENH | 9 | Asian capital named after the woman who supposedly founded it in the fourteenth century |
| 34% | PLATO | 5 | Philosopher who founded the Academy in Athens |
| 33% | AMBROISE | 8 | __ Paré, French royal surgeon in the 16th century |
| 32% | WOOLWICH | 8 | District in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, London, where Henry VIII founded a naval dockyard in 1512 |
| 32% | WYATT | 5 | Sir Thomas who introduced the sonnet to England |
| 32% | PENN | 4 | William —, English Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania in North America |
| 31% | YANG | 4 | Andrew who founded the Forward Party in 2021 |
| 31% | WILLIAMPENN | 11 | English-born Quaker who founded the city of Philadelphia in 1682 (2 wds.) |
| 31% | HENDRIX | 7 | Jimi, US guitarist who found fame in 1960s London |
| 31% | PAPP | 4 | Joseph —, American theatre producer-director who founded the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1954 |
| 30% | ATHENAEUM | 9 | The —, London private members' club founded in 1824 |
| 30% | ARSE | 4 | Seat in the London Stock Exchange? |
| 30% | PAPP | 4 | Joseph —, American theatre producer and director who founded the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1954 |
| 30% | KYD | 3 | Thomas —, 16th-century English dramatist who authored The Spanish Tragedy |
| 30% | BAHAI | 5 | The ___ faith (unitary religion founded in the nineteenth century) |
| 30% | BEECHAM | 7 | London Philharmonic founder Sir Thomas ___ |
| 30% | LOT | 3 | ___ Whitcomb who founded Milwaukie, Oregon, named after the Wisconsin city - in 1847 |
| 30% | SIKH | 4 | Member of an Indian religion founded in the 16th century |
| 30% | WINDSORCASTLE | 13 | London-area landmark built in the 11th century (2 wds.) |
| 30% | IAN | 3 | Sir ___ McKellen, the actor who plays Magneto in "X-Men" |
| 30% | OSLO | 4 | Scandinavian capital founded in the mid-11th century |
| 29% | SIKH | 4 | Member of an Indian religion founded in the 16th-century |
| 29% | MANN | 4 | Thomas who won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 29% | CABOT | 5 | Venetian who explored for England in the 15th century |
| 29% | EERO | 4 | Architect Saarinen who designed the American embassy in London |