- IDEA
- Concept
- What's the big __?
- Brainstorm
- Cartoon bubble
- Clue
- Gist
- Inspiration
- Light bulb, in comics
- Notion
- Sneaking suspicion
- Brain wave
- Brainchild
- Brilliant thought
- Comic light bulb?
- Free-association tidbit
- Impression
- Invention necessity
- Inventor's seed
- Inventor's spark
- It's just a thought
- Lightbulb, in a cartoon
- I have an ___!
- Aftermath of a brainstorm
- Birth of a notion?
- Game plan
- It's all in your head
- It's all in your mind
- Just a thought
- Mental picture
- New wrinkle
- Something to run up the flagpole
- Think tank output
- Thought
- Gray matter creation
- Light bulb, in the comics
- Think piece
- Noodle concoction?
- The faintest or "the foggiest" thing
- Bit of mental energy
- Brainstorm result
- Thing symbolized by a bulb
- Here's an ___ ...
- Entrepreneur's need
- What a light bulb might symbolize
- Concept represented by a light bulb
- Light bulb, metaphorically
- Necessity for a patent
- Something hatched
- Result of inspiration
- Origin of an innovation
- One may be floated or shot down
- The very ___!
- It's in your mind
- Think of it!
- Inkling
- Cranial bulb?
- Creative spark
- Evernote note
- Google Keep note, often
- Head piece?
- Inventor's starting point
- It's a thought
- Lightbulb in a comic strip
- One might arrive with a finger snap
- People see it when the lights turn on
- Puzzlemaker's beginning
- Think about it
- Bad ___ Jeans (classic SNL skit)
- Brainstorm session output
- There's an ___
- Project's basis
- See 65-Across
- That's a good ___!
- Imagine that!
- Result of brainstorming
- conception
- Eureka! producer
- Cortex product
- Inventor's output
- Cartoon bulb
- Creative thought
- Gray-matter output
- Result of cogitating
- Hypothesis
- It might be bright
- Think tank product
- Puzzlewriter's need
- Birth of a plan
- Forehead-slap inducer
- Invention's origin
- Possible solution?
- Overhead lightbulb
- A point of departure and no more: Picasso
- Breakthrough
- Creative starting point
- Nascent plan
- It's symbolized by a light bulb
- Suggestion
- Now there's an ___!
- Invention inception
- Novel thought
- Thinker's product
- What a germ can become
- Light bulb's symbolic meaning
- Think-tank offering
- Skull-session product
- Creative flash
- Helper-outer
- It's at the end of a block
- See 24-Across
- Vague outline
- Intellectual property?
- Word from the Ancient Greek for "I see"
- A rough one is typically in the ballpark
- One may ask what the big one is
- It can come to you
- It's best when it's brightest
- One may wonder what the big one is
- One of many implemented on "Shark Tank"
- Bad _____ Bears (cute "Avenue Q" troublemaking duo)
- Part of a "Shark Tank" presentation
- It's often indicated with an index finger pointing straight up
- Origin of many a company
- What's the big ___?
- Brainstorming product
- Cartoon light bulb
- Cerebral output
- Inventor's "step one"
- Patent prerequisite
- Brainstorming result
- Bulb lighter?
- Mental glimmering
- What a light bulb may signify
- I had no ___!
- The ___ ! ("Humph!")
- Brainstorming session result
- Cartoon light bulb indication
- Formulated thought
- Invention genesis
- Opinion
- Something to think about
- Glimmering
- Prelude to an invention
- What "!" may mean, in comics
- Beginning of a plan
- Mental invention
- Vague impression
- What "!" may mean in a comic strip
- Hey, what's the big ___?
- Brain trust offering
- Bright light?
- Hunch
- Brain flash
- Budding plan
- One may occur to you
- Think tank nugget
- Basis of an invention
- Cogitation creation
- Invention's germ
- Bean sprout?
- Noggin nugget
- Skull session result
- The very ___! ("What nerve!")
- Creative concept
- Fancy
- Gray matter product
- <<NO CLUE>>
- Creative start
- It may be half-baked
- Brainstorming output
- Comic strip lightbulb
- Crossword constructor's hope
- Invention start
- Writer's block breakthrough
- It may be thrown out at a meeting
- It may lead to a patent
- Mental concoction
- Patent genesis
- Patent predecessor
- Spark, of sorts
- Fresh thought
- Light bulb, figuratively
- Result of some brainstorming
- What's on your mind
- You may bounce it off someone
- Birth of an invention
- Bright thought
- Flash of inspiration
- Mental representation
- New thought
- Novel notion
- Possibly half-baked noodle concoction?
- Result of a brainstorming session
- Start of something big, usually
- Think tank's quest
- No ___ ("Beats me")
- That's the ___! ("Good thinking!")
- Birth of a plan, perhaps
- Creative nugget
- General impression
- Light bulb, in a strip
- One could eventually lead to a patent
- Result of brainstorming, at times
- Inspirational flash
- It may come from nowhere
- What comes to mind
- Aha moment cause
- Brain output
- Coconut product?
- Creative output
- Cure for writer's block
- Invention's inception
- It could just come to mind
- Just think of it!
- Kickstarter project's genesis
- Matter of the mind
- Start of something big, perhaps
- Sudden inspiration
- Scheme
- Headache with pictures, according to Fry from Futurama
- Contribution to a brainstorming session
- That's the easiest thing on earth, is to come up with an ___ ... the hardest thing on earth is to put it down: Rod Serling
- Don't get the wrong one
- Spark of creation
- Lightbulb depiction
- Supposition
- Proposal
- Great --!
- Inventor's need
- Sometimes it's bright
- Belief
- It's out of one's mind
- Mind matter
- What a light bulb may represent
- Head light?
- Intention
- Invention inspiration
- View
- Bean product?
- Inventor's inspiration
- It's out of your mind
- You have no __
- Brain matter
- Invention impetus
- What a light bulb means, in comics
- Wrinkle, so to speak
- What's the __?
- Abstract thought
- Start of something big, hopefully
- Vision
- __ man
- An __ is salvation by imagination: Frank Lloyd Wright
- The very __!
- Future invention
- It might come out of nowhere
- Start of a novel?
- Start of a solution
- I've got an __!
- Conceit
- Invention seed
- Noodle output?
- Patent seed
- Potential dilemma solver
- Thinker's output
- Brain-picker's pursuit
- It might be crazy
- Light bulb, to a toon
- Mental creation
- Start of a plan
- Thought hidden in eight long puzzle answers
- I have an __!
- Flash of sorts
- It can be half-baked
- It might be harebrained
- Plan
- Crossword constructor's germ
- Flash in the brainpan
- It might be half-baked
- Start of a theory
- Starting point, perhaps
- Eureka! elicitor
- Adman's start
- Head start?
- Inventor's germ
- Mental block buster
- Noodle product?
- [Lightbulb!]
- Author's inspiration
- Flash, perhaps
- Item in a writer's notebook
- Start of a project
- Black cloud : anger :: light bulb : __
- Hunch, say
- It might just come to you
- That's the general __
- Brainstorming contribution
- Entrepreneur's start
- Innovator's spark
- Mind flash
- Overhead exclamation point, in comics
- Start of a story
- Writer's block cure
- I had no __!
- See 2-Down
- Word after big or bright
- Good __!
- I've got it! elicitor
- Creative process output
- Invention beginning
- Problem solver, at times
- What a light bulb may mean
- Flash, maybe
- It comes from the head
- It's in your head
- One may accompany a finger snap
- Bulb in a balloon?
- It can come to mind
- Mental flash
- One may be called bright when it isn't
- What a raised index finger may indicate
- What a great __!
- One may be pitched to a publisher
- Patent's genesis
- Planning session product
- No __: "Beats me"
- A light bulb may symbolize one
- What may come to mind
- Good thinking! thought
- I had no __!: "What a surprise!"
- That Is NOT a Good __!: Mo Willems children's book
- Whose __ was that?
- Half-baked thought, perhaps
- Light bulb generator?
- Think tank tidbit
- Noodle nugget
- Word with bright or big
- Here's an __ ...
- Bit of inspiration
- Clever thought
- Why, the very __!
- Abstraction
- Flash of brilliance
- Creative input
- Inventor's basis
- It may be bright
- Light bulb, in cartoons
- Sudden thought
- Creative spur
- Invention origin
- Inventor's flash
- Theme
- Mental glimmer
- Inventor's start
- Sudden flash
- Inventor's brainchild
- Personal view
- Toon light
- Creative inspiration
- Gray cells' product
- Trial balloon, e.g.
- Creative contribution
- Plan not yet on paper
- Problem solver, perhaps
- It starts with a germ
- Inventive thought
- Bit of creativity
- Innovator's inspiration
- Invention's beginning
- Mental germ
- You might bounce it off someone
- Imagination product
- Intangible spark
- Invention preceder
- It may be bounced off someone
- On-bulb, symbolically
- Personal belief
- Something thought up
- Block buster?
- Creative suggestion
- Mental concept
- Product of the imagination
- Theory
- Theory's start
- Unseen flash
- Cerebral spark
- Light bulb, symbolically
- Mental spark
- Point of view
- Creative notion
- Something on your mind
- Bright flash?
- Thinker's goal
- What a comics light bulb symbolizes
- Brain work
- Plan of action
- Spark of inspiration
- Cranial flash
- Discussion starting point
- What a germ might initiate
- Internal impression
- Seed of innovation
- Seed of inspiration
- Shark Tank pitch
- Bit of brain work
- Creative formation
- First step towards a patent
- It might occur to you
- Mental block breakthrough
- Mental seed
- Patent preceder, presumably
- Something coming to mind
- Something to think up
- Thinker's thought
- Brainstorming offering
- Innovation initiation
- Sudden insight
- Vacuity's lack
- Food for thought
- General sense
- Internal flash
- Spark of innovation
- Ingenious thought
- Patent's origin
- What might occur to you
- Cranial concoction
- Creative germ
- Spark of imagination
- Thinker's spark
- I have no ___!
- Skull session output
- Light bulb, in the funnies
- Noodle filler?
- Plan for action
- It may come to a head
- It might come off the top of your head
- What a light bulb symbolizes
- You got a better ___?
- Gray matter matter?
- It can be fixed
- For poetry the ___ is everything: Matthew Arnold
- Something that might come to a head?
- 1968 Bee Gees album
- Mount ___ (Crete's highest peak)
- One may be lost in thought
- Bright light over comic character's head.
- Mental image.
- Wrinkle.
- Project.
- Design
- Author's notebook item.
- Brain product.
- Germ for a plot.
- Result of thinking.
- A mental achievement.
- Brain reaction.
- Constructive thought.
- Fantasy.
- First requisite of a successful cartoon.
- Mined from the mind.
- Output of cerebration.
- Preliminary plan.
- Thinkling.
- A must for an author.
- An attitude of mind.
- Cerebral end-product.
- Immediate object of thought.
- Product of cerebration.
- Product of reflection.
- The chief end in view: Slang.
- The germ of a project.
- Top of the head item.
- Ad men's flash.
- Cartoonist's electric bulb.
- Reflection.
- Vague notion.
- Archetype.
- Author's starting point.
- Cerebration product.
- Mild brainstorm.
- A precept.
- Mental product.
- Plan preceding action.
- Result of cerebration.
- Object of thought.
- Result of thought.
- The beginning of invention.
- Thought product.
- Glimmer
- Percept.
- Rare thought.
- Copywriter's forte.
- Have no ___.
- Happy thought.
- Central meaning.
- Flash of insight.
- Mind product.
- Product of thinking.
- Vagary.
- First thought.
- Prerequisite for 9 Down.
- Inventor's forte.
- Prenotion.
- Item sometimes big
- Seminar product.
- Invention
- Light-bulb lighter
- Result of cerebral activity
- Seed for a plot
- Inventor's incentive
- Intimation
- Patent base
- Bright ___
- Germ of a patent
- Seed of an invention
- Whim
- ___ man
- That's a great ___!
- Thinker's reward
- Germ for an invention
- Light bulb, in comic strips
- New slant
- ___ man (game-show creator)
- Basis for a patent
- Brain's offspring
- Cartoonist's light bulb
- Invention germ
- Fancy; inkling
- Germ for a TV pitch
- Possible outcome of a brown study
- Prelude to a plot
- Product of imagination
- Seed for a lyric
- Start of a plot
- Inventor's or author's quest
- A result of cerebration
- Fancy this
- Prelude to a patent
- Anagram for aide
- Product of cogitation
- . . . an ___ whose time has come: Hugo
- Germ for a Madison Ave. product
- Germ of an invention
- Start of an invention
- Surmise
- Think-tank creation
- Comic-book light bulb
- Noumenon
- Significance
- Inspiration for an author
- Mental conception
- The thinker's reward
- Cogitator's reward
- Intellection product
- Eureka! cause
- Comic's light bulb
- Patent basis
- Germ for a novel
- Phrontistery product
- Theorem or noumenon
- I have no _____!
- The _____! (hmmph!)
- The very _____!
- Flash
- Madison Avenue product
- Stars : pain :: light bulb : _____
- Good ___!
- Meaning
- Essay's basis
- It may be fixed
- It might make you say "Aha!"
- The very notion
- Designer's need
- Start of something big?
- Brain popper
- Piece of one's mind?
- The light bulb, to Edison
- Bit of planning
- Edison product
- Matter for the gray matter
- What's the ___?!
- Light bulb's signification, in cartoons
- Guess
- It comes to mind
- It has a germ
- Bean concoction?
- Thesis basis
- What a germ may become
- Genesis of an invention
- Piece of mind?
- Prelude to a solution
- You have no ___
- It pops into the head
- Reason to shout "Eureka!"
- Aha! elicitor
- Coconut yield?
- Child of invention?
- Invention starter
- Drawing is putting a line round an ___: Henri Matisse
- If at first, the ___ is not absurd, then there is no hope for it: Einstein
- ---
- Dome light?
- Something that can't be patented
- No ___ ("Don't ask me")
- A good one is often carried out
- It begins at conception
- Spark, so to speak
- Suspicion
- The thought that counts?
- Word exclaimed after "no" or "good"
- Potential solution
- Writer's block buster
- Whose ___ was this?
- It may be just a hunch
- The right thing
- The slightest or "the foggiest" thing
- Where'd you get that ___?
- See 60-Down
- Something that might pop into your head
- Starting place for an inventor
- Paris is always a good ___ (line from the film "Sabrina")
- It might begin with a "What if ...?"
- One may get carried out
- Something talked about in a TED talk
- It comes to a head
- One that's out of one's head?
- What you may think of
- Cents
- It's just in your head
- Unpatentable thing
- What a cartoon light bulb represents
- Any ___?
- Now there's a thought!
- Start of creation?
- What a light bulb indicates in cartoons
- Flash of genius, say
- It can be bounced off someone
- It might be put in your head
- Patent preceder
- What a light bulb represents in the comics
- The faintest thing
- Cause for an aha
- Creative springboard
- Nugget from a noggin
- One may be floated or rough
- One may be half-baked or brilliant
- Spark of a sort
- Starting point for a plan
- The wheel was a good one
- Word implied in "I haven't the foggiest"
- Brain spark
- End of a noodle?
- Keep it in mind!
- Something to bat around
- Certain germ
- Fully-grown germ?
- Innovator's breakthrough
- Spark result
- A finger in the air might connote one
- Seed of invention
- Brain gain
- It may be a great notion
- Orson: "Bright ___"
- Song light bulb
- Song start
- Song thought
- Song concept
- Musical inspiration
- Musical think tank nugget
- Producer suggestion
- Vandals "An ___ for a Movie"
- Big Time Rush "No ___"
- Darkness "Seemed Like a Good ___ at the Time"
- Dave Matthews "The ___ of You"
- LCD Soundsystem might come up with a "Big" one
- That's the ___ ...
- You might bounce one off a co-worker
- Whatever gave you that ___?
- Stroke of inspiration
- What a light bulb represents, in cartoons
- What a lit up bulb can symbolize
- It seemed like a good _____ at the time!
- What's the big _____?
- In the comics, it's a light bulb
- It can be good, bad or brainy
- It's formed in your head
- The embryo of an invention
- Hey, what's the big _____?
- Content of cognition
- Mental inspiration
- Result of cogitating, sometimes
- Embryo of an invention
- It may be fixed or bright
- Light bulb for Wile E. Coyote?
- Lightbulb, in toons
- Revelation
- What's on your mind, perhaps
- Why, the very _____!
- Bee Gees album title
- Bright one from gray matter
- Cerebral creation
- It may be bright or novel
- Don't get the wrong ___
- Good ___! ("Nice thinking!")
- What a brilliant ___!
- A lightbulb might signify one
- Anagram of 17-Across
- It seemed like a good ___ at the time!
- Cerebral achievement
- Why, the very ___!
- Fanciful notion
- It can be big, bright, good or bad
- It may be seminal
- What's the bright ___?
- Big or bright thing
- Brainy inspiration
- It may come to mind
- Object of a brilliant thought
- Result of cogitating, perhaps
- Result of a lightbulb moment
- Word after "vague" or "bright"
- Creator's sine qua non
- Inventor's "light bulb"
- It could be a very good thought
- It may be bright or big
- It starts in your head
- Cause of an "aha" moment
- Genesis of a plan
- It can come to a head
- Think tank matter
- The very item
- A good one may come to mind
- Asset for an entrepreneur
- Inventor's first step
- Productive thought
- Now there's an ___!' up 2009 IDEA The very ___!" ("What nerve!")
- The very thing?
- It precedes an invention
- Potential problem-solver
- The origin of an invention
- Asset for an inventor
- Brainstormer's pursuit
- Brainy output
- Entrepreneur's starting point
- What a light bulb sometimes signifies
- Inventor's inkling
- Inventor's springboard
- A lightbulb can represent it
- Brain's creation
- Brainy creation
- Creative morsel
- Inventor's brilliant notion
- It can be good, bad or bright
- It might pop into your head
- The very beginning of an invention
- Bright thing from gray matter
- Bright thing that comes to mind
- Embryonic invention
- It may be big or bright
- Sudden mental inspiration
- Brilliant flash of inspiration
- A thinker may think of one
- Brainy product
- Innovator's seed
- It's better than a mere thought
- Brilliant, creative thought
- Creative one's spark
- The mother of invention
- What a comic strip lightbulb indicates
- No ___ ("I'm stumped")
- Brilliant think piece
- Good thing to have at a meeting
- Innovator's necessity
- Thing leading to a patent
- Writer's block ender
- Crossword inspiration
- Inspirational thought
- Noggin output
- One may pop into your head
- What's produced upstairs?
- What gave you that ___?
- Concept or conception
- One might be ahead of its time
- Product of a brainstorm
- Skull session creation
- Word after "half-baked" or "concrete"
- You may bounce one off of someone
- Founder's inspiration
- Imaginative thought
- Metaphorical lightbulb
- One may dawn on you
- Word after "bright" or "bad"
- Brainstorm goal
- Entrepreneur's spark
- Innovative spark
- Lightbulb, in a comic
- One may start with "What if we ..."
- Think tank result
- A good one is bright
- That's what you think!
- Lightbulb moment
- That's a thought!
- You might bounce it off a buddy
- Thought sometimes
- What's the big ____?
- Figment
- Have no ____: baffled
- Think tank topic
- Project starter
- Skull session exchange
- Flight of fancy, maybe
- Two cents worth
- Mother of invention
- Two cents worth, perhaps
- The very ___! (hmmph!)
- Figment of your imagination
- Ah-ha predecessor
- Approximation
- Light bulb, to Edison and comics
- Lightbulb source?
- The start of an invention
- Inventor's specialty
- It may be big
- Its icon is a light bulb
- Start of a brilliant scheme
- Flash of brilliance, perhaps
- Genesis of many great inventions
- Step one of an invention
- Lightbulb's meaning, sometimes
- Word with "big" or "good"
- The very ____! ("What nerve!")
- It may be preconceived
- Strip light bulb?
- Whose bright ___ was this?
- Brainstorming bit
- It may pop into your head
- Result of a brilliant thought, perhaps
- Sneaking suspicion, e.g.
- Head light bulb?
- It can be big or harebrained
- It might be right or bright
- Starting point for an invention
- It comes before a patent
- Good piece of one's mind?
- Something that comes to mind
- Sudden bright thought
- Brilliant notion
- It's formed in one's head
- Skull session nugget
- Brainstormer's spark
- Breaker of a mental block
- Cause for shouting "Eureka!"
- Germ for a patent
- One may stop a mental block
- Start of a patent
- Aha moment producer
- Shark Tank presentation
- Genesis of a patent
- Innovation's origin
- Planning session nugget
- Planning session offering
- Product of a picked brain, perhaps
- Visionary's spark
- Writer's block breaker
- What if . . . thought
- Innovation's basis
- Patent's germ
- Reason to shout "Aha!"
- Skull session offering
- Innovative thought
- Can I bounce an ___ off you?
- What gives you that ___?
- Bit of innovation
- Brainstorm product
- Brainstorming breakthrough
- Brainstorming goal
- Brainstorming success
- Innovator's inkling
- Original thought
- Product of pondering
- Result of musing
- Tidbit from a think tank
- That's not a bad ___!
- You get the ___
- It might be bad or bright
- Oh, wow, I had no ___!
- Half-baked ___
- What a lightbulb emoji can symbolize
- What a lightbulb often signifies in cartoons
- Big or "bright" notion
- Bright notion
- Foggiest notion
- I don't have the faintest ___!
- Novel concept
- A lightbulb emoji might represent one
- Inspired thought
- Product of a lightbulb moment
- Hint
- Possible answer
- Bright --
- Skull session bit
- Reflection result
- Suggestion box entry
- What a lightbulb may symbolize in comics
- What do you think?
- Ford ads hyped a better one
- Say, there's an ___!
- Thinking product
- Salvation by imagination, per Frank Lloyd Wright
- bad ___ right? (Olivia Rodrigo single)
- Basis of a plan
- Creative development
- Product of speculation
- Ford claimed a better one
- Awareness
- Exclamation point?
- Brainstorm found in the long answers
- Light in the attic?
- Springboard for an inventor
- TED Talk subject
- Something that comes to a head
- Entrepreneur's inspiration
- Whence a patent
- Eureka! inspirer
- It might come with an "Aha!"
- Inspired flash
- Noodle creation
- Patent precursor
- What a thinker thinks up
- Innovative flash
- Inspiration for a "Eureka!"
- One might elicit a "Eureka!"
- Postulation
- Flash of ingenuity
- Ponderer's product