| 100% | TESTY | 5 | Quick to start in, perhaps |
| 55% | TESTY | 5 | Quick to get defensive, perhaps |
| 55% | SCARLET | 7 | Allow Mark to start in shade |
| 54% | TEEDUP | 6 | Ready to start, in bizspeak |
| 53% | TONE | 4 | Signal to start speaking, perhaps |
| 53% | ERASE | 5 | Begin to start over, perhaps |
| 53% | OVERCAST | 8 | Likely to start raining, perhaps |
| 52% | PREFAB | 6 | Quick to put up, in a way |
| 52% | NAREPTIC | 8 | Quick to fall asleep, in a way |
| 52% | ANTE | 4 | To start a pot, usually in poker |
| 51% | SHY | 3 | Unlikely to start a conversation, perhaps |
| 51% | ROT | 3 | Start to smell, perhaps |
| 51% | ROT | 3 | Start to stink, perhaps |
| 51% | BACKIN | 6 | Start to park, perhaps |
| 51% | TILT | 4 | Start to fall, perhaps |
| 51% | BOILS | 5 | Starts to bubble, perhaps |
| 51% | SAT | 3 | Started to unwind, perhaps |
| 50% | TIGRIS | 6 | Starts in Turkey, crosses Iraq to the Persian Gulf |
| 50% | EDIT | 4 | Change to fit in, perhaps |
| 50% | DOUG | 4 | ___ Williams, first Black quarterback to start in, and win, a 15 Across |
| 49% | ROT | 3 | Start to attract fruit flies, perhaps |
| 49% | HEADTOWORK | 10 | Start out in the morning, perhaps |
| 48% | ACES | 4 | Best cards to start with, in Texas hold 'em |
| 48% | UNLACE | 6 | Start to take off, in a way |
| 48% | UNZIP | 5 | Start to take off, in a sense |
| 48% | MILDEW | 6 | Start to smell, in a way |
| 48% | SLUSHY | 6 | Starting to thaw, in a way |
| 48% | RUTHLESSTACTICS | 15 | What the Red Sox had to start using in 1920? |
| 48% | TEEUP | 5 | Prepare to start a new hole in golf: 2 wds. |
| 48% | IGNITER | 7 | Device used to start a fuel mixture in an engine |