- LEAD
- Pencil innard?
- Sinker material
- Spearhead
- Heavy metal
- Hold first place
- Pb, on the periodic table
- Precedes belly and foot
- Starring role
- Take charge of
- Pb
- Picture part
- Something to go on
- Dog leash
- Galena component
- Go first
- Pencil refill
- Material for a failed balloon (Tribute #1)
- Detective's need
- Hold first
- ___ poisoning
- Blaze a trail
- Pole position
- Show the way
- Star of the show
- X-ray blocker
- Take charge
- Sometime gasoline ingredient
- Bullets
- Alpha dog's place
- Sleuth's clue
- Additive no longer used in Canadian gasoline
- X-ray shield
- Direct
- Metal used in storage batteries
- Edge
- Escort
- What heads take
- Get the ___ out!
- Play first
- Star on Broadway
- Superman's protection against kryptonite
- X-ray vision thwarter
- Get the point?
- Conduct
- News story's first paragraph
- Element removed from gasoline
- Assume command
- Head up
- X-ray vision blocker
- Assume command of
- Front runner's position
- Reporter's first paragraph
- Wield a baton
- Cause of some poisoning
- Guide one's dance partner
- Head the pack
- Take the reins
- X-ray vision deterrent
- Galena product
- Main role
- This causes Superman to squint
- Element between thallium and bismuth on the periodic table
- Hollow point bullet component
- Main part
- Something to get out
- Alchemist's raw material
- Base of some paints
- Conduct, as an orchestra
- Enviable position
- Star part
- Have more points than
- Primary
- Be a star
- Detective's find
- Makeup of a heavy balloon?
- Principal
- Head the cast
- Precede
- Get ahead
- ___ -pipe cinch
- Be ahead by a head
- Its symbol is Pb
- Big part
- Command
- Be off the base, perhaps
- Distance from a base
- Promising clue
- Element whose symbol is Pb
- Chair, say
- Clue
- Coveted role
- Star's part
- Clue in a case
- Headliner
- Pb is its symbol
- Take control
- Set an example
- Pet controller
- Principal role
- Have followers
- Cardiogram connection
- Set the pace
- Pb, on a table
- Run the show
- Usher
- Detective's aid
- Household paint no longer contains it
- Play the first card
- Common stained glass element
- It's usually played by a star
- With 69-Across, Iditarod front-runner ... and a hint to the answers to starred clues
- Malleable metal
- Periodic table's Pb
- Primary role
- Auditioner's hope
- Best part
- X-ray vision stopper
- Get the __ out!
- Baserunner's ploy
- Be in front
- Prime role
- Pewter component
- Salesman's opportunity
- Use a baton
- Guide
- Act as a guide
- Call the shots
- Be in charge
- Be in first place
- What U-238 ultimately becomes
- Biggest part
- Open a card game
- Female __
- See 36 Across
- Sinker metal
- Top-billed performer
- Top-billed role
- Be proactive
- Brit's 54 Down
- Principal part
- Buckshot's makeup
- Major part
- Solder component
- Dangerous ingredient in paint
- Element whose symbol comes from the Latin word "plumbum"
- It can be removed by chelation
- It's between thallium and bismuth in the periodic table
- Pewter component, once
- Quarterback
- Induce.
- Graphite.
- Its ore is galena.
- First paragraph.
- Ingredient of pewter.
- Product of Missouri.
- The Dodgers hold it.
- Part of pewter.
- Pilot.
- Principal part in a play.
- Product of galena.
- 4th from the longest and strongest.
- Product of Montana.
- Open.
- Plumbum.
- Stellar part.
- First place.
- Have charge of.
- Sounding weight.
- Foremost position.
- Hit first, in boxing.
- Star role.
- Important part.
- Salesman's prospect.
- Introduction to a news story.
- Take the initiative.
- Element.
- Example.
- Excel.
- Metal.
- Plummet.
- Front place.
- Part in 1 Across.
- X-ray shielding.
- Bridge play.
- Be in the van.
- Precedence.
- Pace the field.
- Go ahead.
- Role.
- Symbol of heaviness.
- Part of a news story
- Leash
- Start a hand
- Kind of pencil
- Part of a pencil
- Pencil power
- ___ us not . . .
- Indication
- Kind of balloon
- Toy-soldier material
- Bridge player's decision
- ___, Kindly Light
- Top job for Vincent
- News story opener
- With 5 and 38 Across, pious N.Y.C. tot's plea
- Desired role
- Mr. Shoemaker's goal
- An element
- Head start
- Heavy element
- ___ off (begin)
- Common pollutant
- Prized role
- Van
- Bridge move
- Gray element
- Vanguard
- Tip
- Major role
- Hindrance for Superman
- Hot clue
- Problem for Superman
- Guide on the dance floor
- Be the bellwether
- Kind of story
- Pb, elementally speaking
- Star
- Pencil's innards
- Actor's goal
- Helpful information
- One of a ballroom couple
- Pencil filler
- Not back up
- One of a pair of dancers
- Front-runner's edge
- One of two ballroom dancers
- Help for a sales rep
- Make the first moves, in dancing
- Extraction from galena ore
- Metal that Superman can't see through
- Galena extract
- One lap, maybe, in a race
- What a detective follows
- __ poisoning
- Aid for a detective
- Essential for an investigator
- Chief
- Pb, in chemistry
- One getting top billing
- Male ballroom dancer, traditionally
- Sleuth's quest
- With 34-Across, slag furnace input
- Alchemy material
- Fat part
- Period for preparation
- Dancer Fred Astaire, to Adele
- It blocks Superman's X-ray vision
- Modern paint no-no
- Radiation shield material
- With 42-Down, literally, control completely
- Pb, to a chemist
- Pb, to chemists
- Clue for a detective
- Play auditioner's hope
- Weapon in Clue
- Material in automobile batteries
- Help for a case
- Bid first, say
- Metal that an alchemist "converts" into gold
- ___ climbing (discipline that debuted at the 2020 Olympics)
- A winning team may sit on one
- Balloon material?
- Be a pioneer
- Start off
- Be winning
- Element with the symbol Pb
- Pipe material
- 'Pb' element
- Solo
- What the better guitarist takes
- Type of guitarist
- ___ on, Macduff! (Common Shakespeare misquotation)
- Its chemical symbol is Pb
- One with top billing
- Metal in some X-ray aprons
- Balloon variety
- Get it out and you'll move faster
- Type of balloon
- Tip, to Columbo
- Mechanical pencil refill
- Pencil stuff
- Be in charge of
- Certain movie role
- Get it out to go faster
- Role for Hanks
- Take charge on the dance floor
- Cause of painter's colic
- Plum role
- Role for a star
- What a salesperson may follow
- Promising clue, to a detective
- Barrier for X-ray vision
- Word before "singer" or "guitar"
- Be atop the standings
- Gas additive of yore
- Be the captain of
- It may be 0.7 millimeters wide
- Mechanical pencil need
- Metaphorical heavy balloon material
- What graphite replaced in pencils
- Word before "astray" or "nowhere"
- Kind of line
- X-ray stopper
- Before foot or weight
- Get the ____ out!
- Movers get this out
- Plumbago
- Symbol is Pb
- Before foot or belly
- Bridge term
- Inkling
- Pipe metal, once
- Dream of aspiring actors
- Word with foot or weight
- X-ray vision can't penetrate it
- Be in command
- Main character
- Take the point
- Biggest role
- First news story
- Pewter component, sometimes
- Blocker of Superman's X-ray vision
- Toxic metal in old paint
- Criminologist's clue
- Detective's clue
- Gasoline additive, once
- Male waltzer, traditionally
- Toxic metal in paint, once
- Radiation shield metal
- Go down like a ___ balloon
- Guide a dance partner
- Help to show the way
- Mechanical pencil fill
- Metal found in old paint
- Pencil ___ (graphite)
- Principal stage actor
- Guide, like a dance partner
- Take the van
- Top part
- Bullets, slangily
- Big role
- Plum part
- Group 14 metal
- Neighbor of thallium on the periodic table
- Subject of a home buyer's paint inspection, perhaps
- It's out of gas, mostly
- Clue for Kojak
- Barrier for Superman's X-ray vision
- Pencil part
- Pencil core
- It follows thallium in the periodic table
- It's below tin on the periodic table
- Shot
- Top role
- Role for the star
- Kryptonite shield
