| PENNANT | Flag of the state founder, a six-footer (7) |
| PENNON | The state's founder? No! Just returning the flag (6) |
| LACOSTE | Fashion company whose green crocodile logo is derived from the nickname of its founder, a French tennis player (7) |
| SALTIRE | Heraldic symbol in the form of a diagonal cross, as on most flags of the Confederate States of America (7) |
| HAPENNY | Coin US state founder found in dried grass (7) |
| OLDGLORY | Nickname of the flag of the United States of America |
| STARSANDSTRIPES | The name used for the national flag of the USA (5,3,7) |
| PENTAGON | Having got a state founder involved it's left to the US military |
| SCOUTING | According to its founder, "a school of citizenship through woodcraft" |
| PARADISE | Appearing on the flag of the South Pacific nation, Papua New Guinea, is the bird of ... |
| STARSANDBARS | Informally, the first official flag of the Confederate States of America |
| SICKLE | It joined a hammer on the flag of the Soviet Union |
| OLD | Nickname for the flag of the United States of America (3.5) |
| GLORY | Nickname for the flag of the United States of America (3.5) |
| STRIPE | One of thirteen on the flag of the U.S. (6) |
| PENICILLIN | State founder holds French here, confining infected -- in need of this? (10) |
| ANITA | The Body Shop founder, - Roddick (5) |
| PENMANSHIP | Writing skill of graduate in state founder's joint |
| REDDUSTER | Colloquial term for the flag of the merchant Navy (3,6) |
| REDENSIGN | The flag of the British Merchant Navy (3,6) |
