Crossword Clue:

the basis for a belief

Answer	Crossword Clue
TNT	Explosive used as the basis for a "megaton"
DIARIES	Basis for the Ickes books.
LABOHEME	Basis for the musical "Rent"

UNDERLIE	Serve as the basis for
ALGERNON	"Flowers for ..." (basis for the movie "Charly")
IAMACAMERA	Play that was the basis for "Cabaret"
PINGPONG	Basis for the first commercially successful video game
MOLNAR	Playwright whose "Liliom" was the basis for "Carousel"
HEARTOFDARKNESS	Novella that served as the basis for "Apocalypse Now"
IAMLEGEND	1954 novel that's the basis for "The Omega Man"
MERIMEE	Writer whose "Carmen" was the basis for Bizet's opera

PYGMALION	Shaw play that was the basis for "My Fair Lady"
ELIOT	Poet whose work was the basis for the musical "Cats"
LILI	Leslie Caron film that was the basis for Broadway's "Carnival!"
MOLNAR	Hungarian playwright whose "Liliom" was the basis for the musical "Carousel"
OSOLEMIO	Song that was the basis for Elvis Presley's "It's Now or Never"
KINGSMITH	Dick who wrote the book that was the basis for the film "Babe"