The First and Most Important News Item

This page is the CodyCross answer for the clue below from California, Group 1157, Puzzle 4 (Wine Country).

Question is: The First and Most Important News Item

and the answer is: LEADSTORY

Word Meaning:

LEAD — (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).

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