| GREGORY | Isabella Augusta, Lady ___, co-founder with Yeats of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin (7) |
| JACKSON | Jamie ___, co-founder with Mark Pitchers of Capital Carp competitions (7) |
| DEIRDRE | First performed the year after his death, this unfinished JM Synge play was completed by Yeats; ... Of The Sorrows |
| BRITTEN | Co-founder with Peter Pears of the Aldeburgh Festival hosted annually at Snape Maltings in Suffolk (7) |
| DIDEROT | Co-founder, with d'Alembert, of the 18th century Encyclopedie (7) |
| SPENCER | Co-founder, with Marks, of a chain of shops (7) |
| WOZNIAK | Co-founder with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne of Apple Computer, Inc (5,7) |
| JMSYNGE | Playwright who co-founded the Abbey Theatre |
| SHOOTAT | Go Away opens at The Abbey Theatre - it could be an attempt at a big hit (5,2) |
| OCASEY | SeA¡n __, Irish playwright long associated with the Abbey Theatre, Dublin (6) |
| RODGERS | William ___, co-founder of the Social Democratic Party in 1981 (7) |
| PICASSO | Pablo, Spanish painter and founder, with Braque, of cubism (7) |
| ANTHONY | Susan B. ___ (co-founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association, 1869) |
| THEPLAYBOYOFTHEWESTERNWORLD | Three-act play by John Millington Synge that provoked riots when it opened at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in January 1907 |
| BOYCOTT | Rosie ___, co-founder of Spare Rib (7) |
| COLONEL | K.F.C. founder, with "the" |
| GOUNDER | Fail and founder with grand opening (2,5) |
| YEATS | Irish poet who co-founded the Abbey Theatre with Lady Gregory in 1904 (5) |
| TEAGARDEN | Jack, co-founder with Earl Hines and Louis Armstrong of the jazz sextet The All-Stars (9) |
| ETTA | Nickname of the RSPB co-founder with the surname Lemon (4) |