| Beginning for tend or text | 26 |
| Beginning for the birds? | 24 |
| Beginning for this puzzle's five endings | 44 |
| Beginning for vision | 20 |
| Beginning for while | 19 |
| Beginning for while, once | 25 |
| Beginning for zooks | 19 |
| Beginning from | 14 |
| Beginning golfer's bane, perhaps | 36 |
| Beginning guitarist's chord | 31 |
| Beginning in basketball | 23 |
| Beginning Latin word | 20 |
| Beginning line under RHE | 24 |
| Beginning ltr. | 14 |
| Beginning magician's arsenal? | 33 |
| Beginning of The Tempest | 27 |
| Beginning of ''Nowhere Man'' | 44 |
| Beginning of "the season to be jolly" | 47 |
| Beginning of a 1969 Stevie Wonder title | 39 |
| Beginning of a Beatles title from The White Album | 49 |
| Beginning of a boss's request | 33 |
| Beginning of a cassette tape | 28 |
| Beginning of a cheer | 20 |
| Beginning of a chilly definition | 32 |
| Beginning of a clarification | 28 |
| Beginning of a conclusion | 25 |
| Beginning of a conclusion? | 26 |
| Beginning of a conformist judge's axiom? | 44 |
| Beginning of a countdown | 24 |
| Beginning of a cowboy song refrain | 34 |
| Beginning of a cycle? | 21 |
| Beginning of a date, often | 26 |
| Beginning of a dead end | 23 |
| Beginning of a drama | 20 |
| Beginning of a fairy tale | 25 |
| Beginning of a fast trip | 24 |
| Beginning of a fitness motto | 28 |
| Beginning of a Flintstones cry | 30 |
| Beginning of a freshman's lament | 36 |
| Beginning of a George Harrison song title on "Let It Be" | 66 |
| Beginning of a healthy observation | 34 |
| Beginning of a knock-knock answer | 33 |
| Beginning of a laugh | 20 |
| Beginning of a long story | 25 |
| Beginning of a magician's incantation | 41 |
| Beginning of a miniseries, usually | 34 |
| Beginning of a natural progression | 34 |
| Beginning of a noted political admonition | 41 |
| Beginning of a plea | 19 |
| Beginning of a poem | 19 |
| Beginning of a Porgy song | 25 |
| Beginning of a prayer | 21 |
| Beginning of a private message that all the readers of the A.V. Club now get to listen in on | 92 |
| Beginning of a process of elimination | 37 |
| Beginning of a project | 22 |
| Beginning of a pun | 18 |
| Beginning of a quip | 19 |
| Beginning of a quip for losers | 30 |
| Beginning of a quotation | 24 |
| Beginning of a quote | 20 |
| Beginning of a quote by W. C. Fields | 36 |
| Beginning of a response to "Eh?" | 42 |
| Beginning of a script? | 22 |
| Beginning of a seasonal refrain | 31 |
| Beginning of a slumber party challenge | 38 |
| Beginning of a solver's thought | 35 |
| Beginning of a spicy quip | 25 |
| Beginning of a strange phobia? | 30 |
| Beginning of a suggestion | 25 |
| Beginning of a tape | 19 |
| Beginning of a toast | 20 |
| Beginning of a tongue twister | 29 |
| Beginning of a transformation | 29 |
| Beginning of a truism | 21 |
| Beginning of a tryster's message | 36 |
| Beginning of a verse | 20 |
| Beginning of a W.C. Fields quote | 32 |
| Beginning of a waxing | 21 |
| Beginning of a Web address | 26 |
| Beginning of a witness' statement | 37 |
| Beginning of a witty eulogy | 27 |
| Beginning of a wound healing | 28 |
| Beginning of a young couple's lament | 40 |
| Beginning of all New York ZIP codes | 35 |
| Beginning of an act | 19 |
| Beginning of an adage? | 22 |
| Beginning of an Alger title | 27 |
| Beginning of an auction definition | 34 |
| Beginning of an Easter Prayer | 29 |
| Beginning of an idea | 20 |
| Beginning of an old cassette tape | 33 |
| Beginning of an ungrammatical quip | 34 |
| Beginning of Caesar's boast | 31 |
| Beginning of cajolery? | 22 |
| Beginning of cellulite? | 23 |
| Beginning of China | 18 |
| Beginning of Chrysler's biography? | 38 |
| Beginning of culture? | 21 |
| Beginning of December? | 22 |
| Beginning of eight words? | 25 |