'A point of departure and no more': Picasso, 4 letters
'Now there's an ___!', 4 letters
'What's the big ___?', 4 letters
An ___ is salvation by imagination: Frank Lloyd Wright, 4 letters
Bad ___ Jeans (classic SNL skit), 4 letters
Drawing is putting a line round an ___: Henri Matisse, 4 letters
Fool ___ (the Westinghouse air brake, to Vanderbilt), 4 letters
For poetry the ___ is everything: Matthew Arnold, 4 letters
Ford has a better ___, '60s ad slogan, 4 letters
Hey, what's the big ___?, 4 letters
If at first, the ___ is not absurd, then there is no hope for it: Einstein, 4 letters
It seemed like a good ___ at the time!, 4 letters
That's the ___! (Good thinking!), 4 letters
The very ___! (What nerve!), 4 letters
The very ___! (hmmph!), 4 letters
What's the bright ___?, 4 letters
Whose bright ___ was this?, 4 letters
You got a better ___?, 4 letters
1968 Bee Gees album, 4 letters
A finger in the air might connote one, 4 letters
A good one may come to mind, 4 letters
Aftermath of a brainstorm, 4 letters
Aide's silly notion (4), 4 letters
Asset for an entrepreneur, 4 letters
Asset for an inventor, 4 letters
Basis of an invention, 4 letters
Bee Gees album title, 4 letters
Bee Gees title album, 4 letters
Beginning of a plan, 4 letters
Big or bright thing, 4 letters
Birth of a plan, perhaps, 4 letters
Birth of an invention, 4 letters
Brain trust offering, 4 letters
Brain-picker's pursuit, 4 letters
Brainstorm found in the long answers, 4 letters
Brainstormer's pursuit, 4 letters
Brainstorming output, 4 letters
Brainstorming product, 4 letters
Brainstorming result, 4 letters
Brainstorming session result, 4 letters
Bright one from gray matter, 4 letters
Bright thing from gray matter, 4 letters
Bright thing that comes to mind, 4 letters
Cartoon light bulb indication, 4 letters
Cause of an aha moment, 4 letters
Cerebral achievement, 4 letters
Child of invention?, 4 letters
Cogitation creation, 4 letters
Comic-book light bulb, 4 letters
Comic-strip light bulb, 4 letters
Content of cognition, 4 letters
Creative contribution, 4 letters
Creative inspiration, 4 letters
Creative starting point, 4 letters
Creative suggestion, 4 letters
Creator's sine qua non, 4 letters
Crossword constructor's germ, 4 letters
Embryo of an invention, 4 letters
Entrepreneur's need, 4 letters
Entrepreneur's start, 4 letters
Entrepreneur's starting point, 4 letters
Figurative light bulb, 4 letters
First step to innovation, 4 letters
Flash in the brain-pan, 4 letters
Flash of brilliance, 4 letters
Flash of brilliance, perhaps, 4 letters
Flash of inspiration, 4 letters
Flight of fancy, maybe, 4 letters
Ford ads hyped a better one, 4 letters
Ford claimed a better one, 4 letters
Ford said they have a better one, 4 letters
Forehead-slap inducer, 4 letters
Free-association tidbit, 4 letters
Garbage's Not My ___, 4 letters
Genesis of an invention, 4 letters
Genesis of many great inventions, 4 letters
Gray cells' product, 4 letters
Gray matter creation, 4 letters
Gray matter matter?, 4 letters
Gray matter product, 4 letters
Have no ___: baffled, 4 letters
Imagination product, 4 letters
In the comics, it's a light bulb, 4 letters
Innovator's inspiration, 4 letters
Inspiration for an author, 4 letters
Inspirational flash, 4 letters
Invention beginning, 4 letters
Invention inception, 4 letters
Invention inspiration, 4 letters
Invention necessity, 4 letters
Inventor's light bulb, 4 letters
Inventor's step one, 4 letters
Inventor's brainchild, 4 letters
Inventor's first step, 4 letters
Inventor's inspiration, 4 letters
Inventor's specialty, 4 letters
Inventor's springboard, 4 letters
Inventor's starting point, 4 letters
It can be big or harebrained, 4 letters
It can be big, bright, good or bad, 4 letters
It can be good, bad or brainy, 4 letters
It can be good, bad or bright, 4 letters
It can be half-baked, 4 letters
It can come to a head, 4 letters
It comes before a patent, 4 letters
It could be a very good thought, 4 letters
It may be big or bad, 4 letters
It may be big or bright, 4 letters
It may be bounced off someone, 4 letters
It may be bright or big, 4 letters
It may be bright or novel, 4 letters
It may be fixed or bright, 4 letters
It may be kicked around, 4 letters
It may be preconceived, 4 letters
It may come to mind, 4 letters
It may pop into your head, 4 letters
It may pop into your mind, 4 letters
What you intend to do, 4 letters
Melodic subject of a musical composition, 4 letters
An approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth, 4 letters
The main thing you are thinking about, 4 letters
The content of cognition, 4 letters
My ___ (Tony Bennett tune), 5 letters
Nonpareil toy company, 5 letters
10 on a scale of 1 to 10, 5 letters
10 on a scale of 1 to 10, e.g., 5 letters
A 10, by some standards, 5 letters
A band with perfect chemistry, 5 letters
A band with the perfect chemistry, e.g., 5 letters
Classic name in toys, 5 letters
Classic toy company, 5 letters
Conception of perfection, 5 letters
Dream team, for example, 5 letters
Embodiment of perfection, 5 letters
Epitome of perfection, 5 letters
First publisher of the game Mouse Trap, 5 letters
Having no drawbacks, 5 letters
Honorable principle, 5 letters
Interstate trade is best (5), 5 letters
It couldn't be better, 5 letters
Jazz standard My ___, 5 letters
Just the way it should be, 5 letters
Like a score of 10 for 10, 5 letters
Like a score of 10 of a possible 10, 5 letters
Like a score of 10 out of 10, 5 letters
Like a ten, to a gymnast, 5 letters
Miss America, so the song goes, 5 letters
Miss America, to some, 5 letters
Model for achievement, 5 letters
Model of excellence, 5 letters
Model of perfection, 5 letters
Mouse Trap manufacturer, 5 letters
Number one album, for one, 5 letters
Often unattainable perfection, 5 letters
Old toy company that made Rubik's Cube, 5 letters
Original producer of the game Mouse Trap, 5 letters
Perfect announcement at a card table, 5 letters
Perfect in all things, 5 letters
Perfect in all ways, 5 letters
Perfect poker player's comment?, 5 letters
Perfection embodied, 5 letters
Perfection embodiment, 5 letters
Perfection standard, 5 letters
Perfectionist's aim, 5 letters
Rubik's Cube company, 5 letters
Scoring a 10 out of 10, 5 letters
Something to aim for, 5 letters
Something to shoot for, 5 letters
Something to strive for, 5 letters
Standard of excellence, 5 letters
Standard of perfection, 5 letters
Suitable in every way, 5 letters
Symbol of perfection, 5 letters
The American dream, e.g., 5 letters
The best imaginable, 5 letters
The best of all worlds, 5 letters
Thumbalina doll maker, 5 letters
Toy company that launched Rubik's Cube, 5 letters
Wilde's 'An ___ Husband', 5 letters
Worth a ten, perhaps, 5 letters
Something that one hopes to attain, 5 letters
Model of excellence or perfection of a kind, 5 letters
One having no equal, 5 letters
The idea of something that is perfect, 5 letters
Goal for many dieters, 15 letters
Surfer's dream wave?, 12 letters
Best times for flying, weather-wise, 15 letters
The best time for flying, weather-wise, 15 letters
Matter in statistical mechanics, 8 letters
Theoretically, it would obey the law pV = nRT, 8 letters
pV = nRT, to physicists, 11 letters
Ladies, I'm sorry for belief that things are better than they are (8), 8 letters
Perfect philosophy?, 8 letters
Philosophical theory, 8 letters
Pursuit of high principles, 8 letters
Pursuit of perfection, 8 letters
Pursuit of unrealistic perfection, 8 letters
The doctrine that ideas are the only reality, 8 letters
Is detail good for dreamer?, 8 letters
Often-impractical one, 8 letters
Schopenhauer or Hegel, 8 letters
Seeker of perfection; innovator's agenda?, 8 letters
VISTA worker, perhaps, 8 letters
High-minded stranger elicits aid (10), 10 letters
They're not practical, 9 letters
Traits that rate 10's, 10 letters
The quality of being ideal, 8 letters
Build castles in the air, 8 letters
Represent as perfect, 8 letters
Saw only good qualities in, 9 letters
Too good to be true, 9 letters
Subject of a Cosmo test, perhaps, 10 letters
If everything goes our way..., 7 letters
In a best case scenario,..., 7 letters
In improbable circumstances..., 7 letters
If nothing goes wrong, 7 letters
In a perfect manner, 7 letters
In the best of all possible worlds, 7 letters
In the best of all worlds, 7 letters
In the best of worlds, 7 letters
Just the way it should be, 7 letters
Under the best conditions, 7 letters
Personal ad placer's desire, 10 letters
Bases of a candidate's platform, 6 letters
Commendable principles, 6 letters
Goals to strive for, 6 letters
Guides for the high-minded, 6 letters
Guiding stars, to use a metaphor, 6 letters
Hard-to-reach situations?, 6 letters
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, 6 letters
Models of excellence, 6 letters
Models of perfection, 6 letters
Notions of perfection, 6 letters
Paradigms or paragons, 6 letters
Paragons and paradigms, 6 letters
People try to live up to them, 6 letters
Perfect models for ladies, 6 letters
Personal north stars, 6 letters
Points in a lofty speech, 6 letters
Standards of excellence, 6 letters
Standards of perfection, 6 letters
Symbols of perfection, 6 letters
They can't get any better, 6 letters
They may be highminded, 6 letters
They're strived for, 6 letters
Things to live up to, 6 letters
Topic in transcendentalism, 6 letters
What 10's represent, 6 letters
Two forms of ID for geometry students?, 10 letters
Original makers of Rubik's Cube, 15 letters
Maker of Mr. Machine in the 1950s, 9 letters
Better mousetrap designer, say, 7 letters
Creative company hire, 7 letters
Creative fellow: 2 wds., 7 letters
Employee with original suggestions, 7 letters
Guy in a think tank, 7 letters
Rand Corporation employee, 7 letters
Think tank desirable, 7 letters
Brainstorming sketch, 7 letters
Diagram used for brainstorming, 7 letters
Fellows good at brainstorming, 7 letters
Madison Avenue types, 7 letters
Males in a think tank, 7 letters
Ones paid to conceive?, 7 letters
People known to have germs?, 7 letters
Professional light bulb producers?, 7 letters
Some think-tank types, 7 letters
They're highly reflective, 7 letters
Think-tank occupants, 7 letters
Think=tank thinkers, 7 letters
Thoughtful fellows?, 7 letters
Valuable Madison Avenue employees, 7 letters
Think-tank employee, 10 letters
Person pursuing a patent, perhaps, 9 letters
Start of a timely verse, 21 letters
'___ Have Consequences' (Richard M. Weaver work), 5 letters
'Don't get any ___!', 5 letters
An invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ___ cannot be resisted: Hugo, 5 letters
Don't get any funny ___!, 5 letters
Gibraltar may be strong, but ___ are impregnable: Emerson, 5 letters
Got any more brilliant ___?, 5 letters
I Get ___ (1951 song), 5 letters
Ad hoc committee's output, 5 letters
Associationism's concerns, 5 letters
Boston Globe weekend section on literary issues, 5 letters
Brain trust's output, 5 letters
Brainstorm aftermaths, 5 letters
Brainstorm results, sometimes, 5 letters
Brainstormer's output, 5 letters
Brainstorming output, 5 letters
Brainstorming products, 5 letters
Brainstorming results, 5 letters
Cognitive concoctions, 5 letters
Creations using blocks?, 5 letters
Developed germs, maybe, 5 letters
Entrepreneurial assets, 5 letters
Fillers of head space?, 5 letters
Germs may lead to them, 5 letters
Infant songs, perhaps?, 5 letters
Innovations' originations, 5 letters
Innovations' origins, 5 letters
Intellectual property, 5 letters
Invention initiators, 5 letters
Invention preceders, 5 letters
Inventions, initially, 5 letters
Inventions' origins, 5 letters
Inventors have them, 5 letters
Light bulb generators?, 5 letters
Light bulbs in comic books, 5 letters
Light bulbs, in cartoons, 5 letters
Light bulbs, in comics, 5 letters
Light bulbs, in the comics, 5 letters
Light bulbs, in the funny pages, 5 letters
Light bulbs, in toons, 5 letters
Mothers of inventions, 5 letters
Much needed items for authors and inventors, 5 letters
Noodle concoctions?, 5 letters
Out of ___ (like some columnists), 5 letters
Output from the cortex, 5 letters
Outputs of brainstorming, 5 letters
Planning meeting input, 5 letters
Planning session input, 5 letters
Queries to publishers, often, 5 letters
R&D Department output, 5 letters
Results of brainstorming, 5 letters
Sadie changed lightbulbs? (5), 5 letters
Shortage when stymied, 5 letters
Skull session output, 5 letters
Skull session results, 5 letters
Some are bright, some are dumb, 5 letters
Some of them are crazy, 5 letters
Some people have funny ones, 5 letters
Sometimes they're good, sometimes they're harebrained, 5 letters
Suggestion box contents, 5 letters
Suggestion box fill, 5 letters
Suggestion box fillers, 5 letters
Suggestions tossed aside (5), 5 letters
They may be bounced around, 5 letters
They may be funny or bright, 5 letters
They may be good, bad or bright, 5 letters
They may be kicked around, 5 letters
They may come to you, 5 letters
They might be bounced around, 5 letters
They might be bounced off others, 5 letters
They might be bright, 5 letters
They're all in your head, 5 letters
They're out of your mind, 5 letters
They're sometimes abstract, 5 letters
They're sometimes funny, 5 letters
They're sometimes wild, 5 letters
Things to think about, 5 letters
Think tank offerings, 5 letters
Think tank products, 5 letters
Think-tank creations, 5 letters
What lightbulbs symbolize, 5 letters
What Sadie has in mind, 5 letters
Come up with a concept, 6 letters
Come up with a plan, 6 letters
Come up with something, 6 letters
Conjure up thoughts., 6 letters
Cook up, so to speak, 6 letters
Engage in brainstorming, 6 letters
Get a mental picture, 6 letters
Participate in a think tank, 6 letters
Put on one's thinking cap, 6 letters
Put on your thinking cap (whatever that is), 6 letters
Think, pretentiously, 6 letters
What an adman might do, 6 letters
Work for a think tank, 6 letters
Cooked up, so to speak, 7 letters
Performed in a think tank, 7 letters
Used one's imagination, 7 letters
Comes up with plans, 7 letters
Comes up with something, 7 letters
Forms mental pictures, 7 letters
Imagines being sated, i.e., 7 letters
Is part of a think tank, 7 letters
Puts on one's thinking cap, 7 letters
Uses one's gray cells, 7 letters
Uses one's gray matter, 7 letters
The process of forming and relating ideas, 8 letters
Entertaining thoughts, 8 letters
Relating to the ability to create, 8 letters
A portrayal of something as ideal, 12 letters
Something that exists only as an idea, 12 letters