| 100% | ATFIRST | 7 | In the beginning |
| 100% | ORIGINALLY | 10 | In the beginning |
| 93% | EARLYON | 7 | In the beginning stages |
| 90% | ASIT | 4 | "___ was in the beginning..." |
| 90% | ASIT | 4 | "___ was in the beginning . . . " |
| 83% | BABYSTEPS | 9 | Small progress in the beginning of a long journey |
| 82% | SCRATCH | 7 | The beginning, in an idiom |
| 82% | SOUTHERN | 8 | In the __ hemisphere, spring begins in September |
| 79% | DACAPO | 6 | From the beginning, in music |
| 79% | ABOVO | 5 | From the beginning, in Latin |
| 78% | NIP | 3 | "___ in the bud" (Solve a problem at the beginning) |
| 78% | CONSONANT | 9 | The beginning of every clue in this puzzle |
| 76% | OMAN | 4 | Only country in the world beginning with the letter “O” |
| 75% | CARNEVALE | 9 | Festival marking the beginning of Lent in Italy |
| 74% | INDENT | 6 | Begin typing in from the margin |
| 74% | OURS | 4 | Last word in the line beginning "We have met the enemy..." |
| 74% | PLACEASHESONONESFARAD | 21 | Mark the beginning of Lent in a shocking way? |
| 74% | CHRISTIANBALE | 13 | He played Batman in the 2005 movie "Batman Begins": 2 wds. |
| 73% | RAJQUARTET | 10 | "The Jewel in the Crown" begins it, with "The" |
| 73% | APR | 3 | Mo. in which the Civil War began |
| 72% | AEROSOL | 7 | The concept of __ spray cans began in 1790 |
| 72% | ESCALATOR | 9 | The first commercial "moving stairs" began in 1899 |
| 70% | MONSTER | 7 | The Church of the Flying Spaghetti __ began in 2005 |
| 70% | ZELDA | 5 | Fitzgerald played by Christina Ricci in the Amazon series "Z: The Beginning of Everything" |
| 70% | DII | 3 | Year the Liang dynasty began in China |
| 69% | ARABSPRING | 10 | It began in 2010 with the Tunisian Revolution |
| 68% | SPACERACE | 9 | Competition begun in the mid-1950s |
| 68% | PELOSI | 6 | House member from the Bay Area beginning in 1987 |
| 68% | ONEAL | 5 | "Inside the N.B.A." analyst beginning in 2011 |
| 68% | LORDS | 5 | The ___ Prayer (prayer that begins "Our Father who art in Heaven ...") |