Answer: LEAD
LEAD is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 245 times.
Referring Clues:
- Pencil's innards
- Helpful information
- One of a ballroom couple
- Kind of balloon
- Pencil filler
- Actor's goal
- Best part
- Detective's need
- "Hot __ and Cold Feet" (1978 western spoof)
- Big part
- Most gas is free of it, these days
- Hindrance for Superman
- X-ray vision stopper
- Pewter component
- X-ray vision blocker
- Not back up
- One of a pair of dancers
- Sinker material
- Starring role
- Front-runner's edge
- One of two ballroom dancers
- X-ray blocker
- Make the first moves, in dancing
- Heavy metal
- Guide
- Help for a sales rep
- Get ahead
- Extraction from galena ore
- Tip
- Its symbol is Pb
- Detective’s need
- Show the way
- Metal that Superman can't see through
- One lap, maybe, in a race
- Galena extract
- What a detective follows
- __ poisoning
- Essential for an investigator
- Aid for a detective
- Chief
- Pb, in chemistry
- X-ray vision thwarter
- "Get the ___ out!"
- Play first
- Superman's protection against kryptonite
- Star on Broadway
- Get the point?
- Conduct
- News story's first paragraph
- Element removed from gasoline
- Assume command
- Bullets
- Hold first place
- Head up
- Front runner's position
- Assume command of
- Wield a baton
- Reporter's first paragraph
- Take the reins
- Guide one's dance partner
- Cause of some poisoning
- Head the pack
- Dangerous ingredient in paint
- Headliner
- Element whose symbol comes from the Latin word "plumbum"
- Direct
- It's between thallium and bismuth in the periodic table
- It can be removed by chelation
- Pewter component, once
- Take charge
- Clue
- Element whose symbol is Pb
- Detective's find
- Principal
- Makeup of a heavy balloon?
- Promising clue
- Distance from a base
- Go first
- Be in front
- Main role
- Call the shots
- Be in charge
- Use a baton
- Detective's aid
- Be in first place
- What U-238 ultimately becomes
- Coveted role
- Act as a guide
- Buckshot's makeup
- Promising clue, to a detective
- Pb
- Take charge on the dance floor
- Cause of painter's colic
- What a salesperson may follow
- Role for a star
- Plum role
- Type of balloon
- Be in charge of
- Be in command
- Balloon material?
- Main character
- Spearhead
- Take the point
- Balloon variety
- Desired role
- Enviable position
- X-ray vision can't penetrate it
- Word with foot or weight
- Dream of aspiring actors
- Be the bellwether
- X-ray vision deterrent
- Star's part
- Be a star
- Male ballroom dancer, traditionally
- Chair, say
- With 34-Across, slag furnace input
- Blaze a trail
- Sleuth's quest
- Solder component
- This causes Superman to squint
- Galena product
- Biggest part
- Detectives need
- Major part
- Take first steps?
- Set an example
- Clue in a case
- Inspire, in a way
- Frontrunner's position
- First stone thrower?
- Like a ___ balloon
- Go ahead
- Pencil part
- Top part
- Begin
- Star's role
- Start
- Graphite, so to speak
- Plumbum
- Get the ball rolling
- Graphite
- Be winning
- Be a pioneer
- Start off
- Alchemy material
- Main part
- Fat part
- Open a card game
- Emulate Moses
- Element between thallium and bismuth on the periodic table
- Period for preparation
- Hollow point bullet component
- Pipe material
- Something to get out
- Element with the symbol Pb
- Word before "singer" or "guitar"
- Base of some paints
- Pb is its symbol
- Conduct, as an orchestra
- Take control
- Pioneer
- X-ray shielding
- Sinker metal
- Biggest role
- Be atop the standings
- Role for Hanks
- Pewter component, sometimes
- Star part
- Get it out to go faster
- Element #82
- Principal role
- Radiation shield material
- Pet controller
- Featured role
- Pave the way
- Dancer Fred Astaire, to Adele
- Blaze the trail
- With 42-Down, literally, control completely
- 'Pb' element
- Modern paint no-no
- It blocks Superman's X-ray vision
- Baserunner's steps off the bag
- Command
- X-ray-vision stopper
- Top-billed performer
- Pb, to a chemist
- Cardiogram connection
- Set the pace
- First place
- The periodic table's Pb
- Primary part
- Gas additive of yore
- Opposite to follow
- Toxic metal in old paint
- Pb, to chemists
- Top-billed role
- Blocker of Superman's X-ray vision
- Hot clue
- Criminologist's clue
- Gasoline additive, once
- Male waltzer, traditionally
- Malleable metal
- Detective's clue
- Van
- Take charge of
- Clue for a detective
- Brit's 54 Down
- Play the first card
- Play auditioner's hope
- Be proactive
- Pb, on a table
- Weapon in Clue
- Usher
- Run the show
- Mechanical pencil need
- Metaphorical heavy balloon material
- One with top billing
- Material in automobile batteries
- Be the captain of
- Household paint no longer contains it
- Principal part
- It may be 0.7 millimeters wide
- It's usually played by a star
- Common stained glass element
- One getting top billing
- Pencil stuff
- Mechanical pencil refill
- With 69-Across, Iditarod front-runner ... and a hint to the answers to starred clues
- Poisonous metal
- Have followers
- Help for a case
- Guide a dance partner
- Go down like a ___ balloon
- Help to show the way
- ___ climbing (discipline that debuted at the 2020 Olympics)
- Start of a detective's trail
- Metal found in old paint
- Bid first, say
- Mechanical pencil fill
- Periodic table's Pb
- Top performer
- Pb to chemists
- Word before astray or nowhere
- ___ by example
- Guide, like a dance partner
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - September 01, 2024
- USA Today - August 07, 2024
- USA Today - July 30, 2024
- LA Times - May 31, 2024
- LA Times - May 01, 2024
- LA Times - February 26, 2024
- New York Times - February 17, 2024
- LA Times - January 03, 2024
- USA Today - December 26, 2023
- LA Times - November 22, 2023
- New York Times - November 19, 2023
- USA Today - July 27, 2023
- USA Today - July 19, 2023
- New York Times - May 14, 2023
- USA Today - March 27, 2023
- New York Times - February 24, 2023
- New York Times - February 21, 2023
- USA Today - January 19, 2023
- USA Today - December 05, 2022
- New York Times - November 09, 2022
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