Clues for the word "LEAD"
We've had 356 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 784 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on January 02, 2026.
Definition of lead
- n. - One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide.
- n. - An article made of lead or an alloy of lead
- n. - A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea.
- n. - A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- n. - Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs; hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- n. - A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils.
- v. t. - To cover, fill, or affect with lead; as, continuous firing leads the grooves of a rifle.
- v. t. - To place leads between the lines of; as, to lead a page; leaded matter.
- v. t. - To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection; as, a father leads a child; a jockey leads a horse with a halter; a dog leads a blind man.
- v. t. - To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, esp. by going with or going in advance of. Hence, figuratively: To direct; to counsel; to instruct; as, to lead a traveler; to lead a pupil.
- v. t. - To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; as, to lead an army, an exploring party, or a search; to lead a political party.
- v. t. - To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among; as, the big sloop led the fleet of yachts; the Guards led the attack; Demosthenes leads the orators of all ages.
- v. t. - To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure; as, to lead one to espouse a righteous cause.
- v. t. - To guide or conduct one's self in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).
- v. t. - To begin a game, round, or trick, with; as, to lead trumps; the double five was led.
- v. i. - To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; -- used in most of the senses of lead, v. t.
- v. t. - To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place; as, the path leads to the mill; gambling leads to other vices.
- n. - The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction; as, to take the lead; to be under the lead of another.
- n. - precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; as, the white horse had the lead; a lead of a boat's length, or of half a second.
- n. - The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played; as, your partner has the lead.
- n. - An open way in an ice field.
- n. - A lode.
- n. - The course of a rope from end to end.
- n. - The width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- n. - the distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- n. - The action of a tooth, as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
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
- Run things
- Pencil content
- Part of a pencil
- Be the one ahead of the others
- Opposite of follow
- Indication of opportunity
- Be first
- Problem for Superman
- Be ahead with heavy metal
- Metal in first place
- The French, in the modern era, are first
- Be out in front of everyone else
- Show people the way
- Element
- Guide on the dance floor
- What the better guitarist takes
- Solo
- Type of guitarist
- Taylor Dayne "Love Will ___ You Back"
- Chicago "All Roads ___ to You"
- Short wire used as jumper - Pb
- Defeat secured by best original means to an end in 15
- Principal role in a play
- Directed to accept a title tole
- Premier article in key write-up
- Precede
- Top player thrashed when 19 15
- Chemical element, symbol Pb
- Being metal, it conducts electricity
- Heavy cable?
- Principal stable boy out East
- Not copper, though it may well contain some
- Cable a chap out East
- Helpful information by cable
- Leash
- Live wire shot chief usher
- Element (Pb)
- Start putting one's cards on the table in corrupt deal
- Pencil core
- Guide to the first card
- 1 down, symbol Pb
- Wire - show the way
- Heavy metal star player
- Clue found in a drawer
- Flex, though copper is the more likely material
- What's used for writing in space between lines of print
- Go ahead and get a connection
- Follower's opposite
- Does it look heavy on a dog?
- Auditioner's hope
- First news story
- X-ray shield element
- Superman's 26 Across can't penetrate it
- 8 intends to get a bullet out of the heart
- Principal boy embraces heroine at last
- Principal material for sinker
- Guide wire
- Heavy metallic element
- Most important element
- Guide boy round centre of Crewe
- Was first to engage a guide(4)
- Guide boy round centre of Amsterdam
- Guide young man round far side of stage
- Metal the most important part
- Main actor having field day
- See 24
- Criminologist's clue
- Gasoline additive, once
- Element in many stained-glass windows
- What we call the core of a pencil, even though it's really graphite
- Play the first card after a misdeal?
- Prompt the star
- Toxic metal in paint, once
- Metallic element whose chemical symbol is Pb
- Metal that can block Supergirl's X-ray vision
- It's taken to be exemplary
- Be ahead in a race
- Male waltzer, traditionally
- Malleable metal
- Be first with heavy metal
- Guide to a poetic area at Land's End
- Detective's clue
- Soft metal
- Principal metal
- Take charge of
- Be first in the field at Land's End
- Clue for a detective
- Be first with a metallic element
- Brit's 54 Down
- Play the first card
- Wire that's taken by front runner
- Show the way of the current flow?
- Head
- Shot
- A clue by cable, apparently
- Play auditioner's hope
- It's below tin on the periodic table
- It follows thallium in the periodic table
- It seems an advantage if you can swing it
- Be proactive
- Radiation shield metal
- Pb, on a table
- Weapon in Clue
- Usher
- Run the show
- Just the sort of role for the 'heavy'?
- Top spot
- Mechanical pencil need
- Metaphorical heavy balloon material
- Important, seemingly heavy role
- One with top billing
- Coveted 12-Across
- Material in automobile batteries
- Forefront
- Be the captain of
- Household paint no longer contains it
- A live wire, this conductor!
- Principal part
- It may be 0.7 millimeters wide
- Principal role for a live wire
- A clue that there's a dog about?
- It's usually played by a star
- Main actor
- Foremost
- Star performer
- Common stained glass element
- One getting top billing
- Pencil stuff
- Show everyone the way
- Mechanical pencil refill
- With 69-Across, Iditarod front-runner ... and a hint to the answers to starred clues
- Have followers
- Help for a case
- Guide a dance partner
- Heavy cable?
- Take to be a clue
- Go down like a ___ balloon
- Help to show the way
- Principal stage actor
- ___ climbing (discipline that debuted at the 2020 Olympics)
- Poisonous metal
- Start of a detective's trail
- Get ahead of everyone else
- Metal found in old paint
- Go in front
- Bid first, say
- Pencil ___ (graphite)
- Mechanical pencil fill
- Periodic table's Pb
- Does it look heavy on a dog?
- Balloon material?
- Barrier for X-ray vision
- ___ by example
- Guide, like a dance partner
- Pencil it in?
- Dangerous additive in old paint
- Audition goal
- Kryptonite blocker
- Pencil's middle
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - January 02, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - December 25, 2025
- Daily American - December 25, 2025
- LA Times - December 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - November 27, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 26, 2025
- LA Times - November 21, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - November 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 22, 2025
- Daily American - October 21, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - October 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - October 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 08, 2025
- Daily American - September 22, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 21, 2025
- New York Times - September 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 18, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 16, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 09, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 05, 2025
- New York Times - September 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 02, 2025
- LA Times - September 01, 2025
- Daily American - August 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 14, 2025
- Daily American - July 14, 2025
- And in 754 more crossword puzzles...