Clues for the word "SOURCE"
We've had 51 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 102 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on December 21, 2025.
Definition of source
- n. - The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.
- n. - The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain.
- n. - That from which anything comes forth, regarded as its cause or origin; the person from whom anything originates; first cause.
Referring Clues
- Deep Throat, e.g., in the Watergate scandal
- Informant
- Reporter's need
- Deep Throat, e.g.
- Origin
- Lake Itasca, to the Mississippi
- Deep Throat, to Woodward and Bernstein
- Footnote acknowledgment
- Bibliography acknowledgment
- Supplier of information
- River's beginning
- Point of origin
- Info provider
- Bibliography book
- A journalist may cite one
- Person who knows the story
- Originator
- Root
- Fountainhead
- Lake Itasca, for the Mississippi
- Reporter's informant
- Font
- Reporter's contact
- Reporter's aid
- River's origin
- One given a citation
- Lake Itasca, vis-à-vis the Mississippi
- Spring changes course
- Fountainhead - journalist's informant
- Spring course disrupted
- Origin of material - of course, it's a variation
- Head of stream
- Embittered church informant
- Bibliography entry
- Origin, starting-point
- Origin; spring
- Spring dip, say
- Origin of HP, perhaps, reportedly
- Beginning to add gravy, say
- Reportedly dressing well
- Church's origin
- Horse's mouth, so to speak
- Supplier
- Footnote content, often
- Basis
- Origin or cause
- Journalist's informant
- Listing in a footnote
- Journalist's secret
- Where something comes from
- Long-running hip-hop magazine, with "The"
Last Seen In
- New York Times - December 21, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 06, 2025
- Daily Quick - June 13, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - May 13, 2025
- Your Life Choices - April 29, 2025
- Mirror Mini - March 03, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - January 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 30, 2024
- Daily American - June 10, 2024
- Family Time - May 13, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - January 08, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - January 05, 2024
- New York Times - November 14, 2023
- Daily Quick - October 06, 2023
- Daily Quick - June 13, 2023
- Your Life Choices - February 25, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - February 15, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - December 27, 2022
- USA Today - December 10, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - October 12, 2022
- New York Times - August 26, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - June 27, 2022
- Daily American - June 10, 2022
- New York Times - October 12, 2021
- Wall Street Journal - February 06, 2018
- LA Times - January 20, 2018
- Mindfood Daily - December 25, 2017
- Daily Quick - October 06, 2017
- New Zealand Herald - August 21, 2017
- Netword - August 18, 2017
- And in 72 more crossword puzzles...