Basic ideas
The crossword clue "Basic ideas" is answered by GISTS, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
GISTS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GISTS answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for GISTS
Every other clue in this collection answered by GISTS, most used first.
- Main points - used 38 times, most recently in 2026
- Main ideas - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Essences - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- General ideas - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Essential points - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Basic belief - TENET, used 87 times
- Basic principle - TENET, used 64 times
- Basic skateboarding trick - OLLIE, used 31 times
- Novel ideas - PLOTS, used 14 times
- Basic chord - TRIAD, used 12 times
- Basic skateboard trick - OLLIE, used 12 times
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