| KROC | Keaton role in "The Founder" |
| RAYKROC | Fast-food tycoon portrayed by Michael Keaton in The Founder (3,4) |
| MCDONALDS | Co. in "The Founder" |
| KEATON | Birdman actor who also stars in The Founder, Michael ___ (6) |
| BATMN | Keaton role |
| BATMAN | Michael Keaton role |
| ANNIE | ___ Hall, Diane Keaton role |
| ANNIEHALL | Diane Keaton role that sparked a fashion craze |
| MRMOM | 1983 Michael Keaton role-reversal comedy |
| ROWING | One of the sports participated in by the founder of the modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin ( |
| TIMBER | Trees grown for use in carpentry; a lumberjack's exclamation warning a tree is about to fall; or, the nickname of the founder conductor of the Proms, Sir Henry Wood (6) |
| MARRINER | Neville --, conductor and violinist, the founder of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields (8) |
| ZOROASTER | Persian prophet, the founder of a dualistic religion set forth in the sacred writings of the Zend-Avesta (9) |
| ANTISTHENES | Athenian philosopher in the time of Socrates regarded as the founder of the Cynic school (11) |
| ABRAHAM | In the Old Testament, the founder of the Hebrew people (7) |
| SAMUELTAYLORCOLERIDGE | Along with Wordsworth, the founder of the Romantic Movement in England, who wrote the poem Kubla Khan (6,6,9) |
| BUDDHA | The name meaning 'enlightened one' given to the founder of one of the world's principal religions |
| NICOLASCARNOT | Who is regarded as the founder of thermodynamics, publishing his theories in Reflections on the Moti |
| KHAN | Genghis -; born Temujin in 1162, the founder of the Mongol Empire (4) |
| CONRAD | What was the first name of the founder of the Hilton Hotels chain? (6) |