| 100% | ENGINES | 7 | "Start your __!" |
| 100% | ARISE | 5 | Start your day |
| 91% | ALARM | 5 | It may start your day |
| 89% | BOOTUP | 6 | Start with your software |
| 86% | BENDOVER | 8 | Start to touch your toes |
| 86% | ILL | 3 | ___ start with your performance..... |
| 85% | NESCAFE | 7 | Coffee, the better way to start your day! |
| 84% | OPENATAB | 8 | Start tallying your drink orders, say |
| 77% | WET | 3 | Get your feet ___ (get started) |
| 75% | NEEDY | 5 | Require your start to be poor |
| 74% | UPON | 4 | Pick the words to start your fairy tale! (1/3) "Once ___ a time..." |
| 71% | CHECKIN | 7 | Arrive at a hotel at the start of your stay |
| 71% | PRANKS | 6 | Calls that may start "Is your refrigerator running?," e.g. |
| 69% | EIGHTDAYSAWEEK | 14 | 1965 Beatles hit that starts "Ooh, I need your love, babe" |
| 67% | RESET | 5 | Button on your Wi-Fi router to start over again |
| 66% | ENDSUP | 6 | "What starts as a small decision often ___ changing your life": 2 wds. |
| 66% | JUMPINJUMPIN | 12 | Destiny's Child song that starts "Ladies, leave your man at home" |
| 66% | PAGE | 4 | (4/5) Flip to the first ___ and start your journey into the world created by the author |
| 65% | GETONTHESTICK | 13 | "Start doing your job!" |
| 64% | SERVE | 5 | Hit a tennis ball to your opponent to start a point |
| 62% | ITSON | 5 | ''Your show is starting'' |
| 62% | BEGIN | 5 | "Your time starts now" |
| 62% | ITSON | 5 | "Your sitcom is starting" |
| 61% | FUNKYCHICKEN | 12 | 1970s dance in which "you flap your arms and your feet start kicking" |
| 60% | IMET | 4 | "How ___ Your Mother" (sitcom whose final season starts on September 23): 2 wds. |
| 59% | SOPS | 4 | Sets of step-by-step instructions that you'll likely have to learn when you start your new job (abbr.) |
| 59% | HELPMANOVERBOARD | 16 | Start of an HMO story that ends, "Sorry, your policy does not extend beyond the three-mile limit"? |
| 58% | AGE | 3 | "Start acting your ___!" ("don't be childish") |
| 56% | TUNE | 4 | Change your ___ (start saying something different) |
| 54% | THINE | 5 | Biblical your |