| INNESS | George ___, American painter often called "the father of American landscape painting" |
| MUDDY | --- Waters, American blues musician, often called the 'father of modern Chicago blues' (5) |
| THOMASMUIR | - of Huntershill, reformer often called ' the father of Scottish democracy' (6,4) |
| EASTMAN | George _, American entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Kodak company (7) |
| OSLER | Sir William ___, physician often called the father of modern medicine |
| WENDT | George ___, American actor best known for playing Norm Peterson in Cheers |
| MANN | Horace ___ School (Ivy League prep school named for "The Father of American Education") |
| HORACEMANN | "The Father of American Education" |
| TWAIN | "The father of American literature," per Faulkner |
| EUCLID | Ancient Greek writer of the Elements treatise, called the 'father of geometry' (6) |
| MADEASCENE | Like divas, the playwright and the landscape painter often ___ |
| HAYDN | Mozart contemporary called the "Father of the Symphony" |
| ALAIN | Locke who was called "The Father of the Harlem Renaissance" |
| SALK | Scientist who was called the "Father of Biophilosophy" in the New York Times in 1966 |
| CECIL | Director of The Ten Commandments (1956), he was known as one of the founding fathers of American cinema (first name only) (5) |
| DIEBENKORN | Richard ___, American painter and printmaker awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1991 |
| CHUCK | ___ Berry My Ding-A-Ling African-American singer who is lovingly called the Father of Rock 'n' Roll |
| STEINER | Composer Max who was called "the father of film music" |
| GALILEI | Galileo _, Italian mathematician called the father of science (7) |
| SAMUELDECHAMPLAIN | Explorer called 'The Father of New France': 3 wds. |
