The clue “Foundation” has been used in multiple crossword puzzles, and these answers have appeared as correct solutions in those cases. This list highlights what’s been accepted repeatedly.
Likely Answers:
- BASIS
- BASE
- CORNERSTONE
- BED
- BEDROCK
- GROUNDING
- ROOT
- GROUND
- FOOTING
Synonyms and Definitions
BASIS
- Synonyms: base, cornerstone, footing, fundament, ground, groundwork
BASE
- Synonyms: al-qaida, al-qaeda, alkali, bag, basal, base of operations, baseborn, basis, establish, floor, foot, found, free-base, home, humble, immoral, infrastructure, lowly, mean, meanspirited, nucleotide, pedestal, qaeda, radical, radix, root, root word, stand, stem, substructure, theme, understructure
BED
- Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bonk, bottom, crawl in, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, go to bed, go to sleep, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hit the hay, hit the sack, hump, jazz, kip down, know, layer, lie with, love, make love, make out, retire, roll in the hay, sack out, screw, seam, sleep together, sleep with, turn in
BEDROCK
- Synonyms: basic principle, basics, fundamental principle, fundamentals
GROUNDING
- Synonyms: anchor, earthing, prime, run aground, strand, undercoat
ROOT
- Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, ascendent, beginning, etymon, origin, rootage, rootle, rout, settle, settle down, solution, source, steady down, take root, tooth root
GROUND
- Synonyms: background, bray, comminute, cranch, craunch, crunch, dig, drudge, dry land, earth, fag, flat coat, grate, grind, labor, labour, land, mash, moil, primer, primer coat, priming, priming coat, reason, soil, solid ground, terra firma, toil, travail
FOOTING
- Synonyms: foot up, foothold, hoof, hoof it, leg it, pick, terms