Clues for the word "KEYNOTE"
We've had 38 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 57 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mirror Daily crossword on June 14, 2026.
Definition of keynote
- n. - The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the piece are referred; -- called also key tone.
- n. - The fundamental fact or idea; that which gives the key; as, the keynote of a policy or a sermon.
Referring Clues
- Kick off the convention
- Main idea
- Important address
- Convention speech
- Kind of speech or speaker
- Focus speech
- Big talk at a convention
- Tonic, to Toscanini
- Kind of speech
- Sort of address
- Kind of address
- Convention opener
- A kind of address
- Kind of speaker
- Kind of convention speaker
- Fundamental idea
- Central idea in a speech
- Type of speaker
- Prevailing tone
- C, for C major
- Convention highlight
- Speaker's designation
- Major speech, as at a convention
- Prime theme
- ___ address (opening speech)
- Pinnacle of a lecture series
- Type of speech
- Main theme - tonic
- A musical tonic
- Crucial books featured in The Economist, mainly
- Principal theme (eg of a speech)
- In essence, almost keen to hold Blair back
- Central principle king's not kept in view
- Such a speech may be a tonic
- Message seen by locker is of fundamental importance
- Main address
- ___ speaker
- Special delivery at a conference
Last Seen In
- Mirror Daily - June 14, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - December 25, 2025
- Daily American - November 17, 2025
- New York Times - September 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 27, 2025
- Daily American - April 01, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 09, 2024
- Daily American - November 17, 2023
- New York Times - July 14, 2023
- Daily American - April 01, 2023
- Family Time - February 26, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 19, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - October 22, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - July 07, 2022
- Mirror Daily - June 13, 2022
- Mirror Daily - December 16, 2017
- Daily American - November 17, 2017
- LA Times - August 24, 2017
- Daily American - April 01, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 05, 2016
- LA Times - December 29, 2014
- Washington Post - July 25, 2014
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 26, 2013
- Netword - December 01, 2012
- Guardian Quick - June 26, 2012
- Universal - January 13, 2012
- Universal - November 06, 2011
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - August 01, 2011
- Canadiana - January 03, 2011
- Family Time - November 28, 2010
- And in 27 more crossword puzzles...