Crossword Clue:

A chip or two to start with

Answer	Crossword Clue
ANTE	A chip or two to start with
INITIALLY	At the start ... or how the first two letters of each starred clue relate to the answer?
NEWYORKER	Steve or Woody Allen, to start with

MAANDPA	Rural couple ... or what the respective halves of the answers to the four starred clues start with
EMMA	Book whose title character "had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her" at the start of the story
CDEF	Start of a scale with no flats or sharps