Ford's predecessor

The answer

AGNEW

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AGNEW answer page.

Used 11 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2020; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

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• NIXON (9 uses in xd)

Other clues for AGNEW

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• Nixon's veep - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Nixon's first veep - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• 1973 resignee - used 11 times, most recently in 2016
• Humphrey successor - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Ford replaced him - used 9 times, most recently in 2012
• Vice President before Ford - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
• Ford succeeded him - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• Nixon's first vice president - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Ford predecessor - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Humphrey's successor - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Nixon's running mate - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Vice president Spiro - used 6 times, most recently in 2018

Related clues

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• Henry Ford's son - EDSEL, used 44 times
• Mubarak's predecessor - SADAT, used 40 times
• Windows predecessor - MSDOS, used 33 times
• Jackie's predecessor - MAMIE, used 27 times
• Polk's predecessor - TYLER, used 21 times
• Stalin's predecessor - LENIN, used 20 times

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