The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word THEMES
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result THEMES
- Those people, leaders of English Society, offering ideas
- Topics put up to protect border
- The first ambassador regularly meets subjects
- Subjects ready to return over border
- Recurrent ideas edge into paper for teachers
- What we’re discussing could be my various personae
- With melody at first, these could be intertwined
- 17 Subjects ready to return across border
- Newspaper primarily employs Spinner to get extremely hilarious setting, not once, but many times!
- Issues from the dining room unfinished
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What does THEMES mean?
THEMES 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).