| Text | Length |
| Out carousing | 13 |
| Getting blitzed | 15 |
| Out drinking | 12 |
| Drunkenly reveling | 18 |
| Seeing the sights | 17 |
| Running by itself | 17 |
| Working by itself | 17 |
| As often as not | 15 |
| Staying over, say | 17 |
| Capriciously | 12 |
| For the heck of it | 18 |
| Ready to come home | 18 |
| At first, say | 13 |
| Trying to get home | 18 |
| Safe at first | 13 |
| Partway home | 12 |
| Part way to scoring | 19 |
| Not yet home | 12 |
| Leading, usually | 16 |
| In scoring position | 19 |
| Hoping to score | 15 |
| Hoping to get home? | 19 |
| Away from home? | 15 |
| At first, maybe | 15 |
| At first or second | 18 |
| With the program | 16 |
| Part of the team | 16 |
| Within a ship | 13 |
| With the group | 14 |
| Riding the train | 16 |
| Riding a train, say | 19 |
| Ready for takeoff | 17 |
| Having coffee, say | 18 |
| Available for work | 18 |
| Like some doctors | 17 |
| Available to work | 17 |
| Ready at any time | 17 |
| Reachable by pager | 18 |
| Like many doctors | 17 |
| In the bullpen | 14 |
| Available for duty | 18 |
| Like much music | 15 |
| Burned, in a way | 16 |
| Way to store pix | 16 |
| Ready for a drive? | 18 |
| Burned, in a sense | 18 |
| Backed-up, in a way | 19 |
| A single time | 13 |
| Storybook start | 15 |
| Without repetition | 18 |
| Head of a tale | 14 |
| Fairy tale start | 16 |
| Enough, for some | 16 |
| Almost never | 12 |
| Fairy tale starter | 18 |
| It may be enough | 16 |
| In the old days | 15 |
| Fairy-tale starter | 18 |
| Never again? | 12 |
| Fairy-tale opener | 17 |
| Fairy tale opener | 17 |
| Twice halved | 12 |
| Tale starter | 12 |
| Some years back | 15 |
| This may be enough | 18 |
| Grimm beginning | 15 |
| ___ and for all | 15 |
| Storybook beginning | 19 |
| Story opener | 12 |
| Not repeatedly | 14 |
| Fairy-tale word | 15 |
| A while back | 12 |
| ___ over lightly | 16 |
| Not to be repeated | 18 |
| Just this time | 14 |
| At an earlier time | 18 |
| __ upon a time | 14 |
| Thrice minus twice | 18 |
| It might be enough | 18 |
| In days gone by | 15 |
| Grimm beginning? | 16 |
| At the moment when | 18 |
| ___ in a lifetime | 17 |
| ___ in a blue moon | 18 |
| Twice from thrice | 17 |
| Start of a tale | 15 |
| Grimm opener | 12 |
| ___ in a while | 14 |
| This time only | 14 |
| Popular story start | 19 |
| Nearly never | 12 |
| In years past | 13 |
| Fairy-tale start | 16 |
| Almost never? | 13 |
| A long time ago | 15 |
| Without duplication | 19 |
| Third of thrice | 15 |
| The moment that | 15 |
| Story beginning | 15 |
| Singular time | 13 |
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