Clues for the word "FOUNDER"
We've had 22 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 30 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on November 23, 2025.
Definition of founder
- n. - One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
- n. - One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types.
- v. i. - To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.
- v. i. - To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
- v. i. - To fail; to miscarry.
- v. t. - To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.
- n. - A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh.
- n. - An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder.
Referring Clues
- Go to the bottom
- Flop
- Creator of a company
- 1-Down, e.g.
- Charter member
- Run aground
- S
- Originator
- College or company starter
- Sink discovered by queen
- Go down as the originator
- Fail
- Break down
- Sink originator
- Stumble, as a horse
- One starts to subside
- Drown establishment figure
- Setter up for nude modelling
- Come to grief
- One may have set up firm sink
- Break down or fail
- Collapse
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - November 23, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - June 28, 2025
- Your Life Choices - April 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - January 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 19, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - September 29, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - November 28, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - June 28, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - December 13, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - November 28, 2022
- Daily Cryptic - September 29, 2022
- Evening Standard Easy - August 31, 2022
- LA Times - January 28, 2018
- Guardian Cryptic - January 02, 2018
- Daily Cryptic - June 28, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - November 29, 2016
- Evening Standard Easy - August 23, 2016
- Evening Standard Easy - June 13, 2016
- New York Times - April 25, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 03, 2015
- New York Times - July 02, 2015
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 19, 2013
- Guardian Cryptic - April 05, 2011
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 15, 2009
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - May 29, 2008
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 06, 2008
- New York Sun - April 13, 2007
- USA Today - September 14, 2004
- Guardian Cryptic - March 26, 2003
- Guardian Cryptic - November 07, 2001