100% | DIVES | 5 | Starts spiritedly, with ''in'' |
71% | TEED | 4 | Started in golf, with “off” |
70% | OPENON | 6 | Start with, as in a movie |
69% | SALT | 4 | With 30-Across, they started in 1969 |
67% | TICTACTOETACTIC | 15 | Starting with an X in the corner, say? |
67% | ANO | 3 | What starts with janeiro, in Rio |
67% | ETA | 3 | Eos starts with one, in Greece |
66% | BIDEN | 5 | With 10-Across, period that started in January 2021 |
66% | OTS | 3 | They start with coin tosses, in brief |
65% | OSCAR | 5 | With 56-Down, start of eight answers in this puzzle |
65% | EYETEST | 7 | It starts with E, in two different ways |
64% | ALLAH | 5 | Word spelled starting with an alif in Arabic |
64% | ACTII | 5 | In "Hamilton," it starts with Jefferson singing "What'd I Miss" |
63% | COLIN | 5 | With 41-Across, he became the 49ers' starting quarterback in 2012 |
63% | IRAQWAR | 7 | It started in 2003 with the bombing of Baghdad |
63% | NINE | 4 | What zip codes in California and Washington start with |
62% | ROBERTGRIFFIN | 13 | With "III," he became the Redskins' starting quarterback in 2012: 2 wds. |
61% | DARTS | 5 | Game in which each player starts with a score of 501 |
61% | CALLSIGNS | 9 | They all start with "K" and "W" in the U.S. |
61% | AROD | 4 | Half of a celebrity couple with J.Lo starting in 2017 |
60% | JRRTOLKIENSTHE | 14 | With 55-Across, source of this puzzle's quote (which starts in box #38) |
59% | ACES | 4 | Best cards to start with, in Texas hold 'em |
58% | UNBREAKABLE | 11 | With 24-Across, Netflix sitcom about a cult survivor starting over in New York City |
58% | CARRIE | 6 | With 18-Across and 21-Down, National American Woman Suffrage Association president starting in 1900 |
58% | ELI | 3 | Manning with the second-longest QB starting streak in N.F.L. history |
58% | PENTAGON | 8 | Iconic Virginia building designed by George Bergstrom with construction starting in September 1941 |
58% | AROW | 4 | Lined up with in |
57% | WADE | 4 | Start with spirit, with ''in'' |
57% | HALLE | 5 | ___ Berry, actress with roles found at the starts of three answers in this puzzle |
57% | BLT | 3 | Sandwich name whose equivalent in The Princess Bride starts with an M (for mutton) |