| 100% | RUTH | 4 | It begins with the story of Naomi |
| 64% | PAXROMANA | 9 | It began with the reign of Caesar Augustus |
| 55% | ROCKETMAN | 9 | 2019 music biopic that tells the story of how 17-Across began collaborating with 27-Across |
| 54% | PAGEONE | 7 | It's just the beginning of the story |
| 54% | THECIDERHOUSELURES | 18 | Story of a youth who says to hell with it and goes to the pub? |
| 54% | SPACETIMECONTINUUM | 18 | It began with the Big Bang |
| 54% | TIME | 4 | It began with the big bang |
| 52% | OPENERA | 7 | It began with the 1968 British Hard Court Championships |
| 52% | OPENERA | 7 | It began with the 1968 British Hard Court Champion-ships |
| 52% | AENEID | 6 | Poem with the story of the Trojan horse |
| 51% | GENESIS | 7 | It begins with "In the beginning ..." |
| 51% | MSNBC | 5 | It began with the slogan "It's time to get connected" |
| 49% | ESTHER | 6 | It begins "In the days of Ahasuerus ..." |
| 49% | PESACH | 6 | It begins on the 15th of Nisan |
| 49% | ILIAD | 5 | It ends with the burial of Hector |
| 49% | DST | 3 | It begins near the end of winter: Abbr. |
| 48% | ILIAD | 5 | It begins "Sing, goddess, the wrath of ..." |
| 47% | OPAL | 4 | Birthstone that begins with the same letter as its month |
| 47% | EZRA | 4 | It begins "In the first year of Cyrus..." |
| 47% | ARABSPRING | 10 | It began in 2010 with the Tunisian Revolution |
| 47% | OPAL | 4 | Birthstone that begins with the same letter as its associated month |
| 47% | ILIAD | 5 | It begins "Sing, goddess, the wrath of Peleus' son …" |
| 47% | TATE | 4 | It began as the National Gallery of British Art |
| 47% | LALALAND | 8 | It opens with the number "Another Day of Sun" |
| 47% | STARTREK | 8 | Stories of the USS Enterprise ship and its crew |
| 46% | HOLYROEMPIRE | 12 | Realm that began with the reign of Charlemagne |
| 45% | EZRA | 4 | It begins "In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia..." |
| 45% | CLUE | 4 | Game that begins with the murder of Mr. Boddy |
| 45% | COORS | 5 | Beer with the Rockies as part of its logo |
| 45% | CHRISTMASCAROL | 14 | "A ___," novella by Charles Dickens that deals with the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser: 2 wds. |