| 100% | RHE | 3 | Letters over "0 0 0," when the game starts |
| 50% | SEQUENCE | 8 | When preceded by [the circled letters], progression starting with 0 and 1 |
| 46% | ALPHABET | 8 | The ___ Game, conversation game where players name words starting with each letter |
| 45% | KENO | 4 | Gambling game whose name spells a gambling town when the first letter is changed |
| 43% | MEALTIME | 8 | When the stomach starts grumbling |
| 43% | TOMORROW | 8 | When the diet starts, perhaps |
| 43% | LANA | 4 | Girl's name that becomes a boy's name when the last letter moves to the start |
| 42% | ACTI | 4 | When the story starts on stage |
| 42% | FRI | 3 | When the Sabbath starts in Isr. |
| 42% | WERELIVE | 8 | Comment when the shooting starts |
| 41% | CRISPIN | 7 | "Life starts all over again when it gets ___ the fall" ("The Great Gatsby"): 2 wds. |
| 41% | ITSATIE | 7 | Holler when the game is deadlocked |
| 41% | SERVE | 5 | Start the game, perhaps |
| 40% | SUNRISE | 7 | When the sun starts to show above the horizon |
| 40% | MAY | 3 | When the French Open starts |
| 40% | MCML | 4 | When the Korean War started |
| 40% | STARTER | 7 | Player on the field when the game begins |
| 39% | DDAY | 4 | When the Battle of Normandy started |
| 39% | ATNINE | 6 | When the morning shift might start |
| 39% | SATURDAYKNITFEVER | 17 | Manic desire to make sweaters when the weekend starts? |
| 39% | IRONICCURTAIN | 13 | Cloth screen that comes down when the play starts? |
| 39% | ADIN | 4 | When an ace would win the game |
| 39% | SERVES | 6 | Starts the game depicted in this puzzle |
| 38% | OPER | 4 | Letters on the 0, back in the day |
| 38% | BULLYOFF | 8 | The former start to a game of hockey |
| 38% | ACTI | 4 | It starts when the curtain rises |
| 38% | APR | 3 | Mo. when the Civil War started |
| 38% | REDEAL | 6 | Start the hand over |
| 38% | BREAKS | 6 | Starts the pool game |
| 38% | DEAL | 4 | Start the card game |