| MODERNISMS | New ideas or styles |
| EXPERIMENTAL | Trying out new ideas or methods (12) |
| EMBRACE | Welcome (new ideas) or cuddle |
| INNOVATIVE | Introducing new ideas or features (10) |
| DIEHARD | One who stubbornly refuses to accept new ideas or change (7) |
| TAKESONBOARD | Accepts a new idea or piece of advice (5,2,5) |
| FACES | Visages or styles of type in printing |
| NOVEL | Genre of fiction with types or styles including epistolary, historical, picaresque, realist and romantic (5) |
| PASTICHE | Artwork that's a mixture of motifs or styles (8) |
| INVENTOR | Person who creates/devises new gadgets, ideas or machines, either as a hobby or as an occupation (8) |
| CATENA | A chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to |
| IMBIBES | Takes or receives into the mind, as knowledge, ideas, or the like. (7) |
| OXYMORON | Figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory ideas or terms are combined (8) |
| ESSENCES | Most essential or most vital parts of some ideas or experiences (8) |
| INSULAR | Narrow or prejudiced in feelings, ideas or manners (7) |
| ART | Use of painting, sculpture etc to express ideas or represent things; a skill; or, the photographs, illustrations etc in a newspaper (3) |
| IMAGES | Ideas or fancies; literary devices such as similes and metaphors; or, pictures obtained by cameras (6) |
| THEORISER | One who constructs ideas or sets of ideas to explain things (9) |
| MAELSTROM | Violent confusion of ideas or conditions |
| SYNTHESIS | Combination of ideas or materials |
