| Start with athlete or cycle | 27 |
| Start with boy or girl | 22 |
| Start with Cone or Cat | 22 |
| Start with down and out | 23 |
| Start with European or China | 28 |
| Start with pad or port | 22 |
| Start with spoons and cups? | 27 |
| Start with step or stop | 23 |
| Start without permission? | 25 |
| Start without the car key | 25 |
| Start working on, as a dog | 26 |
| Start __ (make a reattempt) | 27 |
| Start, as a chain of events | 27 |
| Start, as a conversation | 24 |
| Start, as a dead battery | 24 |
| Start, as a savings account | 27 |
| Start, with "off" | 27 |
| Start, with "on" | 26 |
| Start-of-semester purchase | 26 |
| Start-of-the-weekend letters | 28 |
| Start-up costs, of sorts | 24 |
| Start-up helper: abbr. | 22 |
| Start-up's helper (Abbr.) | 29 |
| Started a cigarette break | 25 |
| Started a computer again | 24 |
| Started a downward trend | 24 |
| Started a new paragraph | 23 |
| Started a paragraph, perhaps | 28 |
| Started a tennis match | 22 |
| Started again unexpectedly | 26 |
| Started an N.H.L. game | 22 |
| Started giving the bottle to | 28 |
| Started in on lovemaking | 24 |
| Started liking, as a hobby | 26 |
| Started on a Havana, e.g. | 25 |
| Started one's meal | 22 |
| Started one's shift | 23 |
| Started over, in a way | 22 |
| Started the bridge game | 23 |
| Started the bridge play | 23 |
| Started the fire again | 22 |
| Started the gas stove again | 27 |
| Started to save, maybe | 22 |
| Started to shave again | 22 |
| Started to somnambulate | 23 |
| Started up a dead fire | 22 |
| Started up the computer again | 29 |
| Started, as a cigarette | 23 |
| Started, as a computer | 22 |
| Started, as a conversation | 26 |
| Started, with "off" | 29 |
| Starter for "sayer" | 29 |
| Starter for "seven" | 29 |
| Starter for arms or smoke | 25 |
| Starter for bag or board | 24 |
| Starter for bella and goge | 26 |
| Starter for cemia or lateral | 28 |
| Starter for centric and mania | 29 |
| Starter for date or cede | 24 |
| Starter for derby or coaster | 28 |
| Starter for fast or sayer | 25 |
| Starter for flower or hem | 25 |
| Starter for hip or oil | 22 |
| Starter for hour or eater | 25 |
| Starter for laryngology | 23 |
| Starter for legal or chute | 26 |
| Starter for legal or graph | 26 |
| Starter for lith or scope | 25 |
| Starter for lord or board | 25 |
| Starter for mask or pole | 24 |
| Starter for mural or personal | 29 |
| Starter for Rico or Vallarta | 28 |
| Starter for spice and star | 26 |
| Starter for the Celtics? | 24 |
| Starter on a really old car | 27 |
| Starter with "ran" | 28 |
| Starter's assignments | 25 |
| Starter's last number | 25 |
| Starters for Cat and Caps | 25 |
| Starters in some fields | 23 |
| Starters of the first race? | 27 |
| Starters who are stoppers | 25 |
| Starting a new movement | 23 |
| Starting an ancient auto | 24 |
| Starting at the beginning | 25 |
| Starting at the highest level | 29 |
| Starting breakfast drink | 24 |
| Starting device: Abbr. | 22 |
| Starting gate at Pimlico | 24 |
| Starting group of athletes | 26 |
| Starting Harvard law students | 29 |
| Starting hr. for many jobs | 26 |
| Starting line advantage | 23 |
| Starting money of a sort | 24 |
| Starting notes in music | 23 |
| Starting number in sudoku | 25 |
| Starting number of Patriots | 27 |
| Starting pitcher's goal | 27 |
| Starting place for a sledder | 28 |
| Starting place for all of us | 28 |