| 100% | INBLOOM | 7 | Like D.C.'s Tidal Basin cherries around the beginning of April |
| 33% | MLK | 3 | His statue can be found around D.C.'s Tidal Basin |
| 32% | FORESTER | 8 | C S —, author of novels The Commodore and Lord Hornblower |
| 32% | SONNET | 6 | One of Shakespeare's begins "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" |
| 31% | VOYAGE | 6 | C. S. Lewis novel The __ of the Dawn Treader |
| 31% | DUE | 3 | Like rent at the beginning of every month |
| 31% | CLIVE | 5 | The "C" of C. S. Lewis |
| 31% | CECIL | 5 | The "C" of C. S. Forester |
| 31% | MIDYEAR | 7 | Period around the end of June, beginning of July |
| 30% | POOR | 4 | Like Aladdin, at the beginning of the story |
| 30% | OUTOFTHE | 8 | & 22A 1938 C S Lewis novel; first part of the Space Trilogy |
| 30% | LOINCLOTH | 9 | Small piece of fabric around the waist, like Tarzan's attire |
| 29% | END | 3 | "It's the beginning of the ___..." |
| 29% | ROMAN | 5 | Like Janus, the god of beginnings |
| 29% | EROICA | 6 | Symphony that marked the beginning of Beethoven's "middle period" |
| 29% | ABE | 3 | D.C. guy of the 1860s |
| 29% | END | 3 | The beginning of the ___ |
| 29% | STIRRINGS | 9 | The beginning of something |
| 29% | DAS | 3 | The beginning of Lothar-Günther Buchheim's 1973 novel that follows U-96 |
| 29% | TAP | 3 | Dance at the beginning of Paula Abdul's "Straight Up" video |
| 28% | ASHIP | 5 | C.S. Forester's "___ of the Line" |
| 28% | NARNIA | 6 | C. S. Lewis's "The Chronicles of ___" |
| 28% | SEED | 4 | The beginning of a plant |
| 28% | IDEA | 4 | The beginning of every innovation |
| 28% | DISC | 4 | The "D" of C.D. |
| 28% | TRES | 4 | "Uno, dos, ___, catorce!" (words shouted at the beginning of U2's "Vertigo") |
| 28% | PAGEONE | 7 | It's just the beginning of the story |
| 28% | SHORTI | 6 | It's at the beginning of this clue |
| 28% | EDT | 3 | D.C. setting, in part of the year |
| 28% | ALEPH | 5 | The beginning of the Hebrew world? |