First-ballot leader at the 1860 Republican Convention Crossword Clue

We have the 6-letter answer for First-ballot leader at the 1860 Republican Convention crossword clue, last seen in the Newsday Crossword March 29, 2025 puzzle. Let us help you solve the crossword clue that has you stumped so you can finish the puzzle.

First-ballot leader at the 1860 Republican Convention Crossword Answer

→14.

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Hide

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Helpful Hints

(noun)
1. United States politician who as Secretary of State in 1867 arranged for the purchase of Alaska from Russia (known at the time as Seward’s Folly) (1801-1872)

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

REPUBLICAN (noun)
1. a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas
2. a member of the Republican Party
REPUBLICAN (adjective)
1. having the supreme power lying in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them or characteristic of such government
CONVENTION (noun)
1. orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
2. something regarded as a normative example

Hint 3: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
DEWARS

More Newsday Crossword (3/29/2025) Answers

Across

1. Stranded swabbers

8. Fission mission ambition

13. Baja Fresh, for instance

16. Finding Dory title character

17. Shed of a sort

18. Two-Oscar actor in the 2010s

19. Round for a course

21. Metaphor for personal progress

22. Caesars birthplace

24. They don't go straight

26. Call for

27. Brit's ladder

29. Be a babbler

31. Sorority letter

32. Drop collectors

37. Teddy Roosevelt established 150 of them

40. Feature of each of the nine Star Wars films

41. Sorority letter

42. What Alberta produces most of in Canada

43. Word from the Latin for "scrape"

47. What the Thames Estuary borders

49. Faced left

53. Epilogue writer of Malcolm's autobiography

54. Motorless, wheelless transportation

56. __ for a Day (Eastern admissions office program)

58. Lock up

59. Personal favor

61. Sunmobile was the first one (1955)

63. Played together

64. Robin Hood emulator of Brit Lit

65. Gallo brand name

66. Bugged

All Answers

Down

1. Cryptocurrency code container

2. Zony or zorse

3. Less than half a day

4. They retired Willie Mays' #24

5. Speak rhetorically

6. Origin of many 2x4s

7. Prodigious accounts

8. Origin of many 2x4s

9. Keep, right or left

10. Deny no longer

11. Influential VIPs

12. Rousseau's "big coward"

13. Seatless transportation

15. He "stood between parents and children on rainy days," said his Dartmouth doctorate citation

20. Basic tonality

23. Title character nickname in a 2023 blockbuster

25. Country with an American namesake

28. By which you'll look at things differently

30. Taken alone

33. Spontaneous

34. "Every __ shall be lifted up": Isaiah

35. Fragment de cartographie

36. Small square-finned swimmer

37. Boa, for instance

38. Big name in brewing

39. Big name in brewing

44. Lara after Angelina

45. Curve cutter

46. Labor with vigor

48. Is abuzz

50. Anthill stratum

51. __ shirt

52. There's no bones about it

55. Receives or takes out

57. Fluency

60. Start of Joan of Arc's century

62. Cleared out

All Answers