| Start to take off, as a tot's outfit | 40 |
| Start to this puzzle's theme, appropriately | 47 |
| Start up, as electronic equipment | 33 |
| Start using a successfully tested system | 40 |
| Start ___ (be extremely aggressive) | 35 |
| Start-press order for a New York daily? | 39 |
| Started a golf hole, with "up" | 40 |
| Started a golf round (with "up") | 42 |
| Started a golf round, with "up" | 41 |
| Started a hole, with "up" | 35 |
| Started a horseless carriage, say | 33 |
| Started again as a former habit, | 32 |
| Started in Jamaica in late '50s | 35 |
| Started paying attention, perhaps | 33 |
| Started sneezing and sniffling, say | 35 |
| Started some Photoshopping, perhaps | 35 |
| Starter at an Italian restaurant | 32 |
| Starter course at a Spanish meal | 32 |
| Starter for "chute" or "sail" | 49 |
| Starter for "cure" or "greed" | 49 |
| Starter for "fast" or "sayer" | 49 |
| Starter meaning ''everything'' | 46 |
| Starter of James Bond's car? | 32 |
| Starters at some seafood restaurants | 36 |
| Starting circuit followed by the green flag | 43 |
| Starting cryptogram guess, maybe | 32 |
| Starting cryptogram guess, perhaps | 34 |
| Starting digits under ''RHE'' | 45 |
| Starting figure on a utility bill | 33 |
| Starting five of Chamberlain, Bol, Ewing et al.? | 48 |
| Starting letters in military code | 33 |
| Starting material in coal formation | 35 |
| Starting part of a bit of bad news | 34 |
| Starting pitcher who was the 2000 NLCS MVP | 42 |
| Starting place for many puzzlers | 32 |
| Starting places for some long drives | 36 |
| Starting point for a ferry ride to Alcatraz | 43 |
| Starting point for a flight test? | 33 |
| Starting point for a long drive? | 32 |
| Starting point for a space traveler | 35 |
| Starting point in decision making | 33 |
| Starting point of the Baja 1000 race | 36 |
| Starting point of the Chisholm Trail | 36 |
| Starting point of the Freedom Trail | 35 |
| Starting spot for a toboggan ride | 33 |
| Starting to actually file things | 32 |
| Starting up a digital stopwatch? | 32 |
| Starting words at many a sporting event? | 40 |
| Starting words, after "Ready" | 39 |
| Startled response to an accusation | 34 |
| Starts a family, gets a job, etc. | 33 |
| Starts a paragraph, electronically | 34 |
| Starts a turn on "Wheel of Fortune" | 45 |
| Starts of long drives, hopefully | 32 |
| Starts of many Quebec place names | 33 |
| Starts of many spelunking explorations | 38 |
| Starts seeing things out of balance | 35 |
| Starts strongly, with "in" | 36 |
| Starts telling a different story | 32 |
| Starts the frame over, in bowling | 33 |
| Starts to climb an oak when seeking apples? | 43 |
| Starts to like, with "to" | 35 |
| Starts to skydive, with "out" | 39 |
| Starts up like a really old computer? | 37 |
| Starving artist might do graveyard one | 38 |
| Starving artist's net worth, slangily | 41 |
| Starving English band's pay? | 32 |
| Stassen's "___ I Stand" | 37 |
| Stassen's "___ Stand" | 35 |
| Stat considered more useful than batting average | 48 |
| Stat factored into a QB's rating | 36 |
| Stat for Babe Ruth, but only early on | 37 |
| Stat for which Cecil Fielder once led the A.L. | 46 |
| Stat in baseball's Triple Crown | 35 |
| Stat sometimes called a "ribby" | 41 |
| Stat that a QB doesn't want to be high: Abbr. | 49 |
| Stat that figures in the Cy Young Award | 39 |
| Stat that is generally lower in the NL | 38 |
| Stat that may be "adjusted" | 37 |
| Stat that's amazing in the twos | 35 |
| Stat that's better if it's lower | 40 |
| Stat that's better when lower | 33 |
| Stat that's good when it's low | 38 |
| Stat that's good when under 3.00 | 36 |
| State ''not guilty'' | 36 |
| State ''Not guilty,'' e.g. | 42 |
| STATE (100th anniversary: 11/2/89) | 34 |
| State admitted during the Civil War | 35 |
| State admitted to the union Nov. 16, 1907 | 41 |
| State at the "Heart of Dixie" | 39 |
| State at the Four Corners Monument | 34 |
| State bordered by the Colorado River | 36 |
| State bordering British Columbia | 32 |
| State bordering Canada for 45 miles | 35 |
| State bordering eight others: Abbr. | 35 |
| State bordering the Gulf of Mexico: Abbr. | 41 |
| State bordering the Pacific, informally | 39 |
| State bordering the Pacific: Abbr. | 34 |
| State capital about 60 miles from Manhattan | 43 |
| State capital founded by William Penn | 37 |