| 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 |
