- Newsday Crossword
- December 5 2025
- Funding source
Funding source
We have found the following answers matching the query 'Funding source' in our database: For more stats and recent usage scroll down and continue reading. Funding source crossword clue was last seen on December 5 2025 in the popular Newsday Crossword.
| Rank | Answer | Clue | Publisher | | 99% | PATRON | Funding source | Newsday |
| 20% | LOAN | College funding source often | USA Today |
| 20% | SOFTMONEY | Political campaign funding source | LA Times |
| 20% | SALTTAX | Funding source for the Great Wall of China | New York Times |
| 20% | GRANTS | Research funding sources | USA Today |
Definition
| • | One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender. |
| • | A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him. |
| • | A man of distinction under whose protection another person placed himself. |
| • | An advocate or pleader. |
| • | One who encourages or helps a person, a cause, or a work; a furtherer; a promoter; as, a patron of art. |
| • | One who has gift and disposition of a benefice. |
| • | A guardian saint. -- called also patron saint. |
| • | See Padrone, 2. |
| • | To be a patron of; to patronize; to favor. |
| • | Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection; tutelary. |
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