Basic idea Crossword Clue

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Basic idea Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
2. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

BASIC (adjective)
1. reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality
2. serving as a base or starting point
BASIC (noun)
1. (usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
2. a popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner’s all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use
IDEA (noun)
1. (music) melodic subject of a musical composition
2. an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth

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More WSJ Crossword (12/18/2025) Answers

Across

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14. Jimmy, e.g.

15. Plant with toothed leaves

16. Middle name in the National Inventors Hall of Fame

17. Gounod opera with the aria “The Golden Calf”

18. *Supporter of women’s athletics?

20. *Weapons depots

22. Ready for tenants

23. False friend

24. Slicer setting

25. Any of 16 in Byron’s “Don Juan”

27. Auditions

31. Day before mercredi

32. Some are dense

33. Euphonium cousin

34. Punk offshoot

35. Item in a trunk

38. Surpass

39. Gather from the fields

41. Athletic event

42. Return option

44. *Como and Crosby, for two

46. Go on ___ (slim down)

47. Tennis star Lacoste

48. Eyedropper end

49. Like some former racehorses

52. *Changed a B to an A, say

56. *Alternative to hash browns

58. Symbolic logic great George

59. "You said it!"

60. 2022 Jordan Peele film

61. Remy's brother in Ratatouille

62. Root for the cook

64. Not now, and, if reparsed, a feature of each starred answer (but only by one space)

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Down

1. Bravo preceder

2. Patek Philippe part

3. Fertility clinic cell

4. Echo

5. Like calligraphy and collages

6. Cornea-correcting tool

7. Zermatt’s surroundings

8. Jersey call

9. Deliberately contrary

10. Mussolini, e.g.

11. Idris of “A House of Dynamite”

12. Bouchard of the Edmonton Oilers

13. Move swiftly

19. Yarn

21. Flying Cloud of the 1920s, e.g.

24. Sudoku entry

25. Onyx decoration

26. Reacting to a touchdown, maybe

27. Market bags

28. Belly bulge

29. Letter-shaped fastener

30. Packager's roll

31. Chicago exchange, familiarly

32. Membre de la famille

36. Legally modifying

37. Johnnie Walker whisky

40. Sign

43. Benign tumor

45. Square of trois

46. Mo. originally called Sextilis

48. Trouble persistently

49. Fictional monomaniac

50. Major volume

51. Hook helper

52. Gym count

53. Daring words

54. Vogue rival

55. Glade grazers

57. Palais personage

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