Crossword Clue: The mother of invention

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• 1968 Bee Gees album
• '68 Bee Gees album they thought of?
• ___ man
• ___ man (game-show creator)
• "An __ is salvation by imagination": Frank Lloyd Wright
• " . . . an ___ whose time has come": Hugo
• An attitude of mind.
• Anagram for aide
• Basic concept
• Basis for a patent
• Basis of an invention
• A finger in the air might connote one
• A good one is often carried out
• A good one may come to mind
• A light bulb may symbolize one
• A lightbulb can represent it
• Bean concoction?
• Bean product?
• Bean sprout?
• A must for an author.
• "Any ___?"
• A result of cerebration
• A thinker may think of one
• Bee Gees album title
• Approach
• Approximation
• Beginning of a plan
• Abstraction
• Belief
• Asset for an entrepreneur
• Asset for an inventor
• Big or bright thing
• Big Time Rush "No ___"
• Adman's start
• Birth of a notion?
• Birth of a notion
• Birth of a plan, perhaps
• Birth of an invention
• Bit of brain work
• Bit of brainwork
• Bit of creativity
• Aftermath of a brainstorm
• Bit of innovation
• Bit of inspiration
• Bit of planning
• Author's inspiration
• "Ah-ha" predecessor
• "Aha!" elicitor
• "Aha moment" cause
• "Aha moment" producer
• Black cloud : anger :: light bulb : __
• Awareness
• Block buster?
• "Bad ___ Jeans" (classic SNL skit)
• Dry ___ (deodorant brand)
• Darkness "Seemed Like a Good ___ at the Time"
• Inspiration
• Inspirational flash
• Inspirational spark
• Inspirational thought
• Inspired flash
• Cause for shouting "Eureka!"
• Cause of an ''aha'' moment
• Comic-book light bulb
• Comic lightbulb
• Comic-strip light bulb
• Comic strip lightbulb
• Dave Matthews "The ___ of You"
• Comic's light bulb
• Intangible spark
• Intellection product
• Intention
• Internal impression
• Fanciful notion
• Fancy; inkling
• Fancy this
• Fancy
• Fantasy
• Intimation
• Gray cells' product
• Gray-matter creation
• Gray matter creation
• Gray matter matter
• Gray matter matter?
• Gray matter output
• Gray matter product
• Invention beginning
• Invention genesis
• Invention germ
• Invention impetus
• Invention inception
• Invention inspiration
• Invention necessity
• Invention preceder
• Invention seed
• Invention start
• Invention starter
• Invention
• Invention's basis
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• Inventor's basis
• Inventor's brainchild
• Inventor's brilliant notion
• Inventor's creative thought
• Inventor's first step
• Inventor's flash
• Inventor's forte
• Inventor's germ
• Inventor's incentive
• Inventor's inkling
• Inventor's inspiration
• Inventor's "light bulb"
• Inventor's "lightbulb"
• Inventor's need
• Inventor's or author's quest
• Inventor's spark
• Inventor's specialty
• Inventor's springboard
• Inventor's start
• Inventor's starting point
• Inventor's "step one"
• Inventor's thought
• Cents
• Cerebral achievement
• Cerebral creation
• Cerebral end-product.
• Cerebral output
• Cerebral spark
• Brain child
• Brain flash
• Brain formation
• Brain gain
• Brain matter
• Brain matter?
• Brain output
• Brain-picker's pursuit
• Brain popper
• Brain product
• Brain production
• Brain trust offering
• Brain trust's goal
• Brain wave
• Brain work
• Brainchild
• Brain's creation
• Brain's offspring
• Brainstorm found in the long answers
• Brainstorm result
• Brainstorm session output
• Brainstorm
• Brainstormer's pursuit
• Brainstormer's spark
• Brainstorming bit
• Brainstorming breakthrough
• Brainstorming contribution
• Brainstorming creation
• Brainstorming goal
• Brainstorming offering
• Brainstorming output
• Brainstorming product
• Brainstorming result
• Brainstorming session result
• Brainstorming success
• Brainwave
• Brainy creation
• Brainy inspiration
• Brainy output
• Brainy product
• Fresh thought
• Certain germ
• Breaker of a mental block
• Breaker of writer's block
• Features "The ___ of Growing Old"
• Group of troops
• Conceit
• Concept.
• Concept or conception
• Concept represented by a light bulb
• Concept
• Conception
• Edison product
• It begins at conception
• Bright ___
• Bright brain concoction
• Bright flash?
• Bright Mike Gordon song?
• Bright one from gray matter
• It can be big, bright, good or bad
• It can be big or harebrained
• Bright thing?
• Bright thing from gray matter
• It can be bounced off someone
• "Bright" thing from one's mind
• Bright thing that comes to mind
• "Bright" thought
• Bright thought
• It can be fixed
• It can be good, bad or bright
• It can be half-baked
• Fully-grown germ?
• Brilliant, creative thought
• Brilliant flash of inspiration
• Brilliant think piece
• Brilliant thought
• It can come to a head
• It can come to mind
• It comes before a patent
• It comes from the head
• It comes to a head
• It comes to mind
• Guess
• It could be a very good thought
• It could just come to mind
• Future invention
• It has a germ
• Design
• Designer's need
• It may be a great notion
• It may be big or bright
• It may be big
• It may be bounced off someone
• It may be bright or big
• It may be bright or novel
• It may be bright
• It may be fixed or bright
• It may be fixed
• It may be half-baked
• It may be just a hunch
• Contemplation creation
• It may be preconceived
• Content of cognition
• Game plan
• Figment
• It may be seminal
• It may be thrown out at a meeting
• It may come from nowhere
• It may come to a head
• It may come to mind
• It may lead to a patent
• It may pop into your head
• It might be bright
• It might be crazy
• It might be half-baked
• It might be harebrained
• It might be put in your head
• It might be radical
• It might be right or bright
• Embryo of an invention
• Embryonic invention
• It might begin with a "What if ...?"
• It might come off the top of your head
• It might come out of nowhere
• It might come with an "Aha!"
• It might just come to you
• Budding plan
• It might make you say "Aha!"
• It might occur to you
• It might pop into your head
• It pops into the head
• It precedes an invention
• Child of invention?
• "It seemed like a good ___ at the time!"
• "It seemed like a good ___ at the time"
• ''It seemed like a good ___ at the time!''
• It starts in your head
• It starts with a germ
• Bulb in a balloon?
• Item in a writer's notebook
• General impression
• Hunch
• Hunch, say
• Genesis of a patent
• Genesis of a plan
• Genesis of an invention
• Genesis of many great inventions
• Cortex product
• It's a thought that counts
• It's a thought
• It's all in your head
• It's all in your mind
• It's better than a mere thought
• Hypothesis
• Germ for a Madison Ave. product
• Germ for a novel
• Germ for a patent
• Germ for a TV pitch
• Germ for an invention
• Germ of a patent
• Germ of an invention
• First step towards a patent
• It's formed in one's head
• It's formed in your head
• Germ's future?
• Discussion starting point
• Its icon is a light bulb
• It's in your head
• It's in your mind
• "I had no __!"
• "I had no ___!" ("News to me!")
• "I had no ___!" ("What a surprise!")
• "I had no ___!" ("You're kidding!")
• "I had no ___!"
• "I have an __"
• "I have an __!"
• It's just a thought
• "I have no ___!"
• "I have no ___!" ("Beats me!")
• "I have no ___!" ("Don't ask me!")
• "I have no ___"
• "I have no _____!"
• It's just in your head
• "I haven't the foggiest ___!"
• "I haven't the slightest ___!"
• "I just had a brilliant ___!"
• It's like a pop-up ad but in your brain
• "I should make a crossword puzzle for BuzzFeed today!" was one of my classic ones
• It's often symbolized by a lightbulb, in the comics
• It's out of one's mind
• It's out of your mind
• It's represented by a light bulb in comic strips
• It's represented in cartoons by a light bulb over someone's head
• Entrepreneur's inspiration
• Entrepreneur's need
• Entrepreneur's spark
• Entrepreneur's start
• Entrepreneur's starting point
• Have no ____: baffled
• It's symbolized by a light bulb
• Flash in the brainpan?
• Flash in the brainpan
• Flash, maybe
• Flash of brilliance, perhaps
• Flash of brilliance
• Flash of genius, say
• Flash of inspiration?
• Flash of inspiration
• Flash of sorts
• Flash, perhaps
• Flash
• "If at first, the ___ is not absurd, then there is no hope for it": Einstein
• "I've got absolutely no ___" ("I'm clueless")
• "I've got an __!"
• "I've got it!" elicitor
• "I've just had a brilliant ___!"
• Cranial bulb?
• Cranial concoction
• Cranial flash
• Creative concept
• Creative contribution
• Creative flash
• Creative formation
• Creative germ
• Creative input
• Creative inspiration
• Creative mental spark
• Creative morsel
• Creative notion
• Creative nugget
• Creative one's spark
• Creative output
• Creative process output
• Creative spark
• Creative springboard
• Creative start
• Creative starting point
• Creative suggestion
• Creative thought
• Essay's basis
• "Do you have a better ___?"
• "Do you have a better ____?"
• "Do you have any ___ what you've done?"
• Creator's sine qua non
• Imagination product
• Imaginative concept
• Imaginative plan
• Imaginative thought
• Imagine that
• Imagine that!
• Immediate object of thought.
• "Can I bounce an ___ off you?"
• "Eureka!" cause
• "Eureka!" elicitor
• "Eureka!" inspirer
• Clever thought
• Head light bulb?
• Head light?
• Impression.
• Impression
• Head piece?
• Head start?
• Headlight?
• Evernote note
• Glimmer
• Glimmering
• Crossword constructor's germ
• Crossword constructor's hope
• Crossword inspiration
• Dome light?
• Clue
• Clueless, no ...
• "Don't get the wrong ___"
• Exclamation point?
• "For poetry the ___ is everything": Matthew Arnold
• Incandescent light bulb depiction (because I have yet to see a CFL bulb depict one)
• Coconut product?
• Coconut yield?
• Cure for writer's block?
• Cure for writer's block
• Ford had a better one, in old ads
• Cogitation creation
• Cogitation
• Cogitator's reward
• Form an image of
• "Here's an ___ ..."
• "Here's an ___"
• "Good __!"
• "Good ___!"
• "Good ___!" ("Great thinking!")
• "Good ___!" ("Nice thinking!")
• "Good ___!" ("Smart move!")
• Cartoon "bulb"
• "Drawing is putting a line round an ___": Henri Matisse
• Cartoon light bulb indication
• Cartoon light bulb
• Cartoon lightbulb
• "Hey, that gives me an ___!"
• "Hey, that's not a bad ___!"
• "Hey, what's the big ---?"
• ''Hey, what's the big ___?''
• "Hey, what's the big ___?!"
• "Hey, what's the big ___?"
• Cartoonist's light bulb
• Good piece of one's mind?
• Good thing to have at a meeting
• Google Keep note, often
• Formulated thought
• Just a thought
• Inkling
• Just think of it!
• Just think of it
• Innovation initiation
• Innovation's basis
• Innovation's origin
• Innovative thought
• Innovator's breakthrough
• Innovator's inspiration
• Innovator's necessity
• Innovator's seed
• Innovator's spark
• Founder's inspiration
• Vacuity's lack
• Original concept
• Vague impression.
• Vague impression
• Original thought
• Orson "Bright ___"
• Orson: "Bright ___"
• Orson "Here's my bright ___"
• "That's a great ___!" ("Let's do it!")
• "That's a great ___!"
• "That's a terrible ___!" ("Don't do it!")
• Toon light
• Vandals "An ___ for a Movie"
• "That's the ___!" ("Good thinking!")
• "That's the ___"
• "That's the general __"
• Notion.
• Notion
• Noumenon
• Novel notion
• Mount ___ (Crete's highest peak)
• Novel thought
• "The _____!" (hmmph!)
• Whim
• Now there's a thought!
• "Now there's an ___!'
• Kickstarter project's genesis
• The chief end in view: Slang.
• Overhead exclamation point, in comics
• Overhead light bulb?
• "Whose ___ was this?"
• "Whose bright ___ was that?"
• "Whose bright ___ was this?"
• "Why, the very ---!"
• Strip light bulb?
• "Shark Tank" pitch
• "Shark Tank" presentation
• The embryo of an invention
• "Some punk's ___ of a teenage nation"
• Plan for action
• Plan not yet on paper
• Plan of action.
• Plan of action
• Plan
• Planning session input
• Planning session nugget
• Planning session offering
• Planning session product
• Object of a brilliant thought
• The germ of a project.
• Object of thought
• Puzzlemaker's beginning
• View
• Something a think tank comes up with
• Something coming to mind
• Something hatched
• Something on your mind
• Something talked about in a TED talk
• Something that can't be patented
• Something that comes to a head
• Something that comes to mind
• Something that might come to a head?
• Something thought up
• The light bulb, to Edison
• Something to think about
• Something to think up
• Vision
• Visionary's spark
• The mother of invention
• Musical conception
• Musical inspiration
• Matter for the gray matter
• Song concept
• Matter of the mind
• Musical mental flash
• Song light bulb
• Song start
• Rough ___ (estimate)
• Musical think tank nugget
• Song thought
• The origin of an invention
• Trial balloon, e.g.
• Sudden bright thought
• Sudden insight
• Sudden inspiration
• Sudden mental inspiration
• Sudden thought
• "Paris is always a good ___" (line from the film "Sabrina")
• Point of view
• Meaning
• The start of an invention
• OK Go "A Good ___ at the Time"
• The thinker's reward
• The thought that counts?
• Suggestion
• "The very ---!"
• "The very __!"
• "The very ___!"
• "The very ___!" (hmmph!)
• ''The very ___!'' (''What nerve!'')
• "The very ___!" ("What nerve!")
• The very ___!
• "The very ____!" ("What nerve!")
• "The very _____!"
• The very beginning of an invention
• ''The very'' item
• The very notion
• "The very" thing?
• Randy Newman song that came to him?
• Popper into one's head
• Mental block breakthrough
• Mental block buster
• Mental concept
• Mental conception
• Mental concoction
• Mental creation
• Mental flash.
• Mental flash
• Mental germ
• Mental glimmer
• Mental glimmering
• Mental image
• Mental impression
• Mental inspiration
• Mental invention
• Mental picture
• Mental seed
• Mental spark
• On-bulb, symbolically
• Nearly colorless
• Metaphorical light bulb
• Necessity for a patent
• Possible outcome of a brown study
• Possible solution
• One could eventually lead to a patent
• Possibly half-baked noodle concoction?
• Patent base
• Patent basis
• Patent genesis
• Patent preceder, presumably
• Patent preceder
• Patent predecessor
• Patent prerequisite
• Patent seed
• Patent's genesis
• Patent's germ
• Reason for shouting "Eureka!"
• Reason to shout "Aha!"
• Reason to shout "Eureka!"
• Reason to shout ''Eureka!''
• Potential dilemma solver
• Potential problem-solver
• Potential solution
• One may accompany a finger snap
• One may be big or bright
• One may be called bright when it isn't
• One may be lost in thought
• One may be pitched to a publisher
• One may get carried out
• One may pop into your head
• One may stop a mental block
• One might arrive with a finger snap
• One might be ahead of its time
• LCD Soundsystem might come up with a "Big" one
• Mike Gordon song a light went off for?
• New slant
• New thought
• Mind find
• Mind flash
• Mind matter
• Mind product
• People see it when the lights turn on
• Prelude to a patent
• Prelude to a plot
• Prelude to a solution
• Prelude to an invention
• One that's out of one's head?
• Leonard Cohen might come up with an "Old" one
• "No __": "Beats me"
• "No ___" ("Beats me")
• "No ___" ("Don't ask me")
• "No ___" ("I'm stumped")
• Personal belief
• Personal view
• Madison Avenue product
• Noggin nugget
• Noggin output
• Noodle concoction?
• Noodle concoction
• Noodle filler?
• Noodle nugget
• Noodle output?
• Noodle product
• Noodle product?
• Problem solver, at times
• Problem solver, perhaps
• Light bulb, figuratively
• Light bulb for Wile E. Coyote?
• Light bulb, in a comic strip
• Light bulb, in a strip
• Light bulb, in cartoons
• Light bulb, in comic strips
• Light bulb, in comics
• Light bulb, in the comics
• Light bulb, in the funnies
• Light-bulb lighter?
• Light-bulb lighter
• Light bulb, metaphorically
• Light bulb, symbolically
• Light bulb, to a toon
• Light bulb, to Edison and comics
• "Light bulb"
• Light bulb's signification, in cartoons
• Light bulb's symbolic meaning, in comic strips
• Light bulb's symbolic meaning
• Opinion
• Light in the attic?
• Result of a brainstorming session
• Result of a brilliant thought, perhaps
• Phrontistery product
• Producer suggestion
• Result of brainstorming, at times
• Result of brainstorming
• Result of cerebral activity
• Result of cogitating, perhaps
• Result of cogitating, sometimes
• Result of cogitating
• [Lightbulb!]
• Lightbulb, figuratively
• Lightbulb, in a cartoon
• Lightbulb in a comic strip
• Lightbulb, in comic strips
• Lightbulb, in comics
• Lightbulb in toons
• Lightbulb, in toons
• Lightbulb, metaphorically
• Lightbulb source?
• Lightbulbin toons
• Lightbulb's meaning, sometimes
• Product of a picked brain, perhaps
• Product of cerebration.
• Product of cerebration
• Product of cogitation
• Result of ruminating
• Product of imagination
• Result of some brainstorming
• Product of pondering
• Product of reflection.
• Product of reflection
• Product of the imagination
• Productive thought
• Project
• Project starter
• Project's basis
• Revelation
• Piece of mind?
• Piece of one's mind?
• Proposal
• Word after big or bright
• Word after "half-baked" or "concrete"
• Theme
• Theorem or noumenon
• Theory
• Theory's start
• "There's an ___"
• Thesis basis
• Word exclaimed after "no" or "good"
• Supposition
• Significance
• Spark of inspiration
• Spark, of sorts
• Spark result
• Spark, so to speak
• Surmise
• Word with ''big'' or ''good''
• Suspicion
• Spitballing result
• Thing leading to a patent
• Thing often symbolized by a light bulb over someone's head
• "Say, that gives me an ___!"
• "Say, that's not a bad ___!"
• Think about it
• Think of it!
• Think of it?
• Think of it
• Think piece?
• Think-tank creation
• Think tank matter
• Think tank nugget
• Think-tank nugget
• Think-tank offering
• Think tank output
• Think-tank output
• Think-tank product
• Think tank product
• Think tank topic
• Think tank's creation
• Think tank's quest
• Thinker's goal
• Thinker's output
• Thinker's reward
• Thinker's thought
• Thinking output
• Thinktank product
• Springboard for an inventor
• Scheme
• What a cartoon light bulb might represent
• What a cartoon light bulb represents
• What a comic-strip light bulb represents
• What a comic strip lightbulb indicates
• What a comics light bulb symbolizes
• What a germ can become
• What a germ may become
• What a germ might initiate
• Thought.
• Thought hidden in eight long puzzle answers
• Thought sometimes
• Thought
• What a light bulb indicates in cartoons
• What a light bulb may mean
• What a light bulb may signify
• What a light bulb might symbolize
• What a light bulb over someone's head symbolizes
• What a light bulb represents in the comics
• What a light bulb sometimes signifies
• What a light bulb symbolizes in comic strips
• What a light bulb symbolizes in comics
• What a light bulb symbolizes
• What a lightbulb symbolizes
• Skull session creation
• Skull session nugget
• Skull-session nugget
• Skull session offering
• Skull session product
• Skull-session product
• Skull session result
• What a raised index finger may indicate
• Writer's block breaker
• Writer's block breakthrough
• Writer's block buster
• Writer's block ender
• What a think tank might come up with
• Understanding
• What all great inventions begin with
• What an inventor starts with
• What comes to mind
• "What gave you that ___?"
• "What gives you that ___?"
• "What if . . ." thought
• Tidbit from a think tank
• What may come to mind
• Stars : pain :: light bulb : _____
• Unpatentable thing
• Start of a brilliant scheme
• Start of a novel?
• Start of a patent
• Start of a plan
• Start of a plot
• Start of a project
• Unseen flash
• Start of a solution
• Start of a theory
• Start of an invention
• Start of creation?
• Start of something big
• Start of something big, perhaps
• Start of something big, usually
• Start of something big?
• Starting point for an invention
• TED Talk subject
• Starting point, perhaps
• "You got a better ___?"
• "You have no ___!"
• ''You have no ___!''
• "You have no ___"
• What you may think of
• You may bounce it off someone
• You may bounce one off of someone
• You might bounce it off someone
• What's on your mind, perhaps
• What's on your mind
• What's produced upstairs?
• "What's the ___?"
• "What's the ___?!"
• "What's the big ---?"
• 'What's the big --?'
• "What's the big __ ?"
• "What's the big __?"
• "What's the big ___?!"
• What's the big ___?
• "What's the big ___?" ("What do you think you're doing?")
• "What's the big ___?"
• What's the big ____?
• "What's the big ________?!"
• "What's the bright ___?"
• Seed for a lyric
• Seed for a plot
• Seed of an invention
• Seed of innovation
• Sneaking suspicion, e.g.
• Sneaking suspicion
• Stealing the Declaration of Independence is an example of a terrible one
• Whence a patent
• Step one of an invention

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• Universal Crossword - March 26, 2017
• New York Times - May 6, 1987

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