Answer:

grant

Answer	Crossword Clue
GRANT	Bestow
GRANT	Cary of "North by Northwest"
GRANT	"American Gothic" painter Wood

GRANT	Lee opponent
GRANT	Vicksburg victor
GRANT	She Done Him Wrong actor
GRANT	President in 1869
GRANT	Concede
GRANT	President who said "I have never felt any sort of fondness for war"
GRANT	Foundation offering
GRANT	President before Hayes

GRANT	Money for research
GRANT	Research money
GRANT	To whom Lee surrendered
GRANT	Johnson's successor
GRANT	Money received from the NSF, often
GRANT	Confer, as property
GRANT	Study aid?
GRANT	Union general at Shiloh

GRANT	Lee's opponent
GRANT	Face on a fifty
GRANT	Federal funding, perhaps
GRANT	18th President
GRANT	Some research funding
GRANT	Star of 1941, 1946, 1955, and 1959 Hitchcock films
GRANT	Cary who married Dyan Cannon
GRANT	Hugh or Ulysses

GRANT	Hill of NBA
GRANT	Research aid
GRANT	Foster ..: sunglasses brand
GRANT	Movie cutie Hugh
GRANT	Endowment
GRANT	Hayes' predecessor
GRANT	Cannon ex
GRANT	Lou or Lee

GRANT	Civil War general
GRANT	Confer
GRANT	Let have
GRANT	Give, as permission
GRANT	Research funding