| SINKS | Founders offend heartless kids (5) |
| KINKS | Problems related to heartless kids (5) |
| BANKS | Prohibit heartless kids from becoming money lenders |
| MEGABUCKS | Island jewel upset heartless kids a lot (9) |
| GATES | One of the founders of Microsoft (5) |
| OCEAN | Where canoe founders? (5) |
| REMUS | One of the founders of Rome (5) |
| HELGA | ___ Hufflepuff, one of the founders of Hogwarts (5) |
| DEGAS | Edgar ___,French artist who was one of the founders of Impressionism (5) |
| BOOLE | George ?, 19th-century Lincoln-born mathematician regarded as one of the founders of the field of computer science (5) |
| KEELS | One of the founders of the so-called Tractarian movement (5) |
| WEBER | One of the founders of modern sociology; or, the German physicist who invented the electromagnetic telegraph with his friend Carl Friedrich Gauss (5) |
| FARGO | William, one of the founders of American Express and the famous US staging business (5) |
| ROYAL | - Academy of Arts; society whose founders are depicted in a painting by Johan Zoffany (5) |
| HARRY | :..., ..... and .... , three of the four Warner Brothers founders (3,5,4) |
| EULER | Leonhard _, 18th-century Swiss mathematician and physicist, one of the founders of pure mathematics (5) |
| RURIK | __ of Lagoda, held to be one of the founders of the Kievan Rus' (5) |
| NAACP | W.E.B. Du Bois was among its founders (5) |
| DRAKE | Canadian rapper, one of the founders of the OVO Sound label (5) |
| MARKS | One of the two founders in Leeds in 1884 of a (now international) retail chain, d. 1907 (5) |