Answer: SOURCE
SOURCE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 36 times.
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
 - Horse's mouth, so to speak
 - Footnote content, often
 - Journalist's informant
 - Listing in a footnote
 - Bibliography entry
 - Fountain head
 - Start
 - Journalist's secret
 - Long-running hip-hop magazine, with "The"
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - November 14, 2023
 - New York Times - August 26, 2022
 - USA Today - December 03, 2021
 - New York Times - October 12, 2021
 - USA Today - May 27, 2021
 - Netword - March 14, 2020
 - Universal - December 08, 2019
 - Netword - May 29, 2019
 - New York Times - September 08, 2018
 - LA Times - August 23, 2018
 - New York Times - April 15, 2018
 - LA Times - January 20, 2018
 - Netword - August 18, 2017
 - Netword - May 31, 2017
 - New York Times - March 05, 2017
 - King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - November 13, 2016
 - New York Times - May 31, 2016
 - King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - May 05, 2016
 - Universal - January 12, 2016
 - King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 25, 2015
 
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