The Clue
Fountainhead (6 letter answer)
The Answer
ORIGIN
Tags
Notes
The answer ORIGIN is seen occasionally, appearing about once every 700 puzzles.
Related Clues
Ancestry
Beginning
Root
Roots
Source
Wellspring
(0,0) on a graph
(0,0), on a graph
Darwin's "On the ___ of Species"
Graph spot
Part of a Darwinian title
Intersection of the x and y axes
Where the x and y axes meet
Definition
ORIGIN as a noun:
1. (beginning, origin, root, rootage, source) = the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"
2. (origin, descent, extraction) = properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"
3. (origin, origination, inception) = an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events
4. the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero
5. (lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock) = the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"