The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word THEME
I've seen this crossword clue in The Times
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More clues leading to the result THEME
- Topic most of you and me will deliver
- Place for opera’s unfinished melody
- Article about initially exciting male topic
- Those people in front of English subject
- Keynote article on Middle East
- Those people taking English as subject
- Subject those people start to enjoy
- Subject of article staff found inadequate
- Subject of article: Middle East
- Goethe means to convey unifying idea
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The straight part
We know that "Keynote" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case keynote = theme.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does THEME mean?
THEME noun- A subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
- A recurring idea; a motif.
- An essay written for school.
- The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
- A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.
- The collection of color schemes, sounds, artwork etc., that "skin" an environment towards a particular motif.
- (grammar) The stem of a word.
- Thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb.
- Theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
- Topic, what is generally being talked about, as opposed to rheme.
- A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.
- To give a theme to.
- To apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software).