| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| chute | at the start; at the very beginning |
| go | from the very start; since the beginning |
| sign | to start radio or television broadcasting, esp. at the beginning of the day |
| 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 |
| catch | (in rowing) to bungle a stroke by failing to get the oar into the water at the beginning or by failing to withdraw it properly at the end |
| matins | the service for it, properly beginning at midnight, but sometimes beginning at daybreak |
