| 100% | ROOK | 4 | It starts in the corner |
| 75% | ROOK | 4 | It begins in the corner |
| 73% | ROOKS | 5 | They start in the corners |
| 72% | OLDAGE | 6 | It starts in the 60s, by most reckonings |
| 71% | ROOK | 4 | Chess piece that starts in the corner |
| 69% | ROOKS | 5 | Chess pieces that start in the corners of the board |
| 68% | IRAQWAR | 7 | It started in 2003 with the bombing of Baghdad |
| 64% | ROOKS | 5 | Chess pieces that start in the four corners of the board |
| 64% | THEFIRE | 7 | In the song, Billy Joel didn't start it |
| 62% | ONE | 3 | It's in the upper-left corner of a telephone keypad |
| 62% | KORAN | 5 | It starts "In the name of Allah..." |
| 61% | IDLED | 5 | Started the car, but kept it in park |
| 60% | ROOK | 4 | Chess piece that starts in one of the board's corners |
| 59% | LOS | 3 | It happened in ___ Angeles on the corner of Sunset Boulevard |
| 59% | TICTACTOETACTIC | 15 | Starting with an X in the corner, say? |
| 59% | LOVEORCONFUSION | 15 | It starts "Is that the stars in the sky, or is it rain fallin' down?" |
| 57% | REDCHINA | 8 | It comes after Doris Day in "We Didn't Start the Fire" |
| 57% | ATM | 3 | It might be found in the corner of a corner store |
| 57% | ETE | 3 | It starts in juin |
| 57% | DST | 3 | It starts in Apr. |
| 57% | DST | 3 | It starts in Mar. |
| 57% | SPRING | 6 | It starts in March |
| 56% | GENESIS | 7 | It starts in seven days |
| 56% | DST | 3 | It starts in March: Abbr. |
| 56% | EARED | 5 | Dog-___ (folded in the corner) |
| 56% | ASL | 3 | It's sometimes seen in the corner of a TV screen: Abbr. |
| 55% | IGNITION | 8 | Part of a vehicle the key is pushed in to start it |
| 55% | EDT | 3 | It starts in April in Fla. |
| 55% | SNAKERIVER | 10 | It starts in Yellowstone National Park |
| 55% | EDSEL | 5 | It was "a no-go" in Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" |