| Beginning of a quip | 19 |
| Beginning of a pun | 18 |
| Beginning of a project | 22 |
| Beginning of a process of elimination | 37 |
| Beginning of a private message that all the readers of the A.V. Club now get to listen in on | 92 |
| Beginning of a prayer | 21 |
| Beginning of a Porgy song | 25 |
| Beginning of a poem | 19 |
| Beginning of a plea | 19 |
| Beginning of a noted political admonition | 41 |
| Beginning of a natural progression | 34 |
| Beginning of a miniseries, usually | 34 |
| Beginning of a magician's incantation | 41 |
| Beginning of a long story | 25 |
| Beginning of a laugh | 20 |
| Beginning of a knock-knock answer | 33 |
| Beginning of a healthy observation | 34 |
| Beginning of a George Harrison song title on "Let It Be" | 66 |
| Beginning of a freshman's lament | 36 |
| Beginning of a Flintstones cry | 30 |
| Beginning of a fitness motto | 28 |
| Beginning of a fast trip | 24 |
| Beginning of a fairy tale | 25 |
| Beginning of a drama | 20 |
| Beginning of a dead end | 23 |
| Beginning of a date, often | 26 |
| Beginning of a cycle? | 21 |
| Beginning of a cowboy song refrain | 34 |
| Beginning of a countdown | 24 |
| Beginning of a conformist judge's axiom? | 44 |
| Beginning of a conclusion? | 26 |
| Beginning of a conclusion | 25 |
| Beginning of a clarification | 28 |
| Beginning of a chilly definition | 32 |
| Beginning of a cheer | 20 |
| Beginning of a cassette tape | 28 |
| Beginning of a boss's request | 33 |
| Beginning of a Beatles title from The White Album | 49 |
| Beginning of a 1969 Stevie Wonder title | 39 |
| Beginning of "the season to be jolly" | 47 |
| Beginning of ''Nowhere Man'' | 44 |
| Beginning of The Tempest | 27 |
| Beginning magician's arsenal? | 33 |
| Beginning ltr. | 14 |
| Beginning line under RHE | 24 |
| Beginning Latin word | 20 |
| Beginning in basketball | 23 |
| Beginning guitarist's chord | 31 |
| Beginning golfer's bane, perhaps | 36 |
| Beginning from | 14 |
| Beginning for zooks | 19 |
| Beginning for while, once | 25 |
| Beginning for while | 19 |
| Beginning for vision | 20 |
| Beginning for this puzzle's five endings | 44 |
| Beginning for the birds? | 24 |
| Beginning for tend or text | 26 |
| Beginning for stat or meter | 27 |
| Beginning for sphere or space | 29 |
| Beginning for package | 21 |
| Beginning for metric | 20 |
| Beginning for dynamic or space | 30 |
| Beginning for dollars or chemicals | 34 |
| Beginning for cosmic | 20 |
| Beginning for China | 19 |
| Beginning for Cat or cone | 25 |
| Beginning for boy or girl | 25 |
| Beginning for a form filler-outeR | 33 |
| Beginning for "while," at one time | 44 |
| Beginning for "while" | 31 |
| Beginning for "violet" or "sound" | 53 |
| Beginning for "trooper" | 33 |
| Beginning for "sent" or "vent" | 50 |
| Beginning for "puncture" | 34 |
| Beginning for "normal" or "legal" | 53 |
| Beginning for "normal" | 32 |
| Beginning for "legal" | 31 |
| Beginning for "lateral" | 33 |
| Beginning for "fix" | 29 |
| Beginning for "dynamic" or "space" | 54 |
| Beginning for "carte" or "king" | 51 |
| Beginning for ''while'' | 39 |
| Beginning for ''space'' or ''nautical'' | 71 |
| Beginning for ''carte'' or ''king'' | 67 |
| Beginning faro card | 19 |
| Beginning elocutionist | 22 |
| Beginning driver, usually | 25 |
| Beginning driver usually | 25 |
| Beginning drawing class, perhaps | 32 |
| Beginning drawing class | 23 |
| Beginning Cub Scout | 19 |
| Beginning course, perhaps | 25 |
| Beginning course | 16 |
| Beginning blossom | 17 |
| Beginning bits | 14 |
| Beginning biology topic | 23 |
| Beginning bars | 14 |
| Beginning baker's yield? | 28 |
| Beginning auspiciously | 22 |
| Beginning at | 12 |