| Starters, in sports | 19 |
| Starters, most often | 20 |
| Starters, of a sort | 19 |
| Starting | 8 |
| Starting (off) | 14 |
| Starting a computer application | 31 |
| Starting a hole | 15 |
| Starting a new life | 19 |
| Starting a new movement | 23 |
| Starting a project ... and what the letters between the starting and ending pairs of letters in each starred answer are doing? | 126 |
| Starting a tic-tac-toe game at one of the edges, say | 52 |
| Starting advantage | 18 |
| Starting afresh | 15 |
| Starting again | 14 |
| Starting an ancient auto | 24 |
| Starting an e-chat | 18 |
| Starting anew | 13 |
| Starting at | 11 |
| Starting at the beginning | 25 |
| Starting at the highest level | 29 |
| Starting bid | 12 |
| Starting bids | 13 |
| Starting breakfast drink | 24 |
| Starting catcher in every All-Star Game from 1964 to 1967 | 57 |
| Starting chip | 13 |
| Starting chips | 14 |
| Starting circuit followed by the green flag | 43 |
| Starting code word | 18 |
| Starting crew | 13 |
| Starting cryptogram guess, maybe | 32 |
| Starting cryptogram guess, perhaps | 34 |
| Starting device: Abbr. | 22 |
| Starting digits under ''RHE'' | 45 |
| Starting fare, often | 20 |
| Starting figure on a utility bill | 33 |
| Starting five of Chamberlain, Bol, Ewing et al.? | 48 |
| Starting five? | 14 |
| Starting for | 12 |
| Starting four | 13 |
| Starting fresh | 14 |
| Starting freshly | 16 |
| Starting from | 13 |
| Starting funds: Slang | 21 |
| Starting gaits? | 15 |
| Starting gate | 13 |
| Starting gate at Pimlico | 24 |
| Starting golfer | 15 |
| Starting group | 14 |
| Starting group of athletes | 26 |
| Starting groups | 15 |
| Starting guide | 14 |
| Starting gun | 12 |
| Starting half? | 14 |
| Starting Harvard law students | 29 |
| Starting hour | 13 |
| Starting hr. for many jobs | 26 |
| Starting impetus | 16 |
| Starting instruction | 20 |
| Starting letter | 15 |
| Starting letter? | 16 |
| Starting letters | 16 |
| Starting letters in military code | 33 |
| Starting line | 13 |
| Starting line advantage | 23 |
| Starting line? | 14 |
| Starting lineup | 15 |
| Starting lineup? | 16 |
| Starting lineups | 16 |
| Starting location | 17 |
| Starting location? | 18 |
| Starting mark | 13 |
| Starting material in coal formation | 35 |
| Starting Miami quarterback in three straight '70s Super Bowls | 65 |
| Starting money of a sort | 24 |
| Starting notes in music | 23 |
| Starting now | 12 |
| Starting number in sudoku | 25 |
| Starting number of Patriots | 27 |
| Starting O, maybe | 17 |
| Starting on | 11 |
| Starting part of a bit of bad news | 34 |
| Starting pay? | 13 |
| Starting pistol ammo mixed with construction site dirt? | 55 |
| Starting pitcher | 16 |
| Starting pitcher who was the 2000 NLCS MVP | 42 |
| Starting pitcher's goal | 27 |
| Starting pitcher? | 17 |
| Starting pitchers are put in it | 31 |
| Starting place | 14 |
| Starting place for a big race? | 30 |
| Starting place for a sledder | 28 |
| Starting place for all of us | 28 |
| Starting place for many puzzlers | 32 |
| Starting place for Tom Watson | 29 |
| Starting place, sometimes | 25 |
| Starting place? | 15 |
| Starting places | 15 |
| Starting places for some long drives | 36 |
| Starting players | 16 |
| Starting point | 14 |