| LESSISMORE | Central concept of minimalism, 3 words |
| TAO | Central concept of philosopher Zhuangzi's teachings |
| STEVEREICH | US composer and leading exponent of Minimalism mixing the service (5,5) |
| MAINIDEA | Central concept: 2 wds. |
| THEME | Central concept in some birthday parties |
| ABSTRACTART | Style that includes Cubism, Futurism and Minimalism (8,3) |
| OPE | Central concept to the Obama election, to a Cockney British person |
| THEMES | Central concepts |
| STELLA | Artist Frank ___, pioneer in Minimalism |
| MARIE | Minimalism advocate Kondo |
| SLOWCORE | Music subgenre characterized by minimalism and relaxed tempos |
| SPARTAN | Austere minimalism might appear to be this? (7) |
| ELTON | Zoologist and author of Animal Ecology who was one of the inventors of the concept of the food chain (5) |
| NAPIER | Surname of the British conqueror of Sindh, and of the mathematician who originated the concept of logarithms (6) |
| SAVAGE | 18th century concept of a person of 'original' virtue, uncorrupted by the ills of industrial world; |
| OPERA | General word for a type of musical drama revolutionised by Richard Wagner through his concept of Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art") (5) |
| SAMSARA | Concept of life as an ongoing cycle of death and rebirth, central to religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism (7) |
| MANETHO | Egyptian priest of the 3rd century BC whose Greek Aegyptiaca (History of Egypt) originated the concept of pharaonic dynasties (7) |
| RADICAL | The base form of a word, a political extremist, a reactive chemical species, sign or zero of a function, all linked by the concept of "root" (7) |
| ANDREWS | Surname of one of the designers of RMS Titanic; or, the chemist who established the concepts of crit |
