| LIMEN | Threshold, ergo a door, ergo a beginning |
| SYLLOGISM | A = B, B = C, ergo A = C, e.g. |
| PANELS | From "pieces of cloth", a word for slips of parchment on which jurors' names were written, ergo a term for juries or other advisory groups (6) |
| ASTROLOGER | Sign reader lost, ergo a lost traveller, ultimately (10) |
| NASCENCY | What is a beginning or a development (8) |
| INITIAL | Word for a beginning, such as the first letter of a word or name (7) |
| START | A beginning; or, a flinch, jerk or jump through fright or surprise (5) |
| SPRING | A fountainhead; the rise of the sea to its extreme height; or, a beginning, birth, dawn or freshest time, hence the vernal season of growth, when buds and plants bloom and burst forth (6) |
| TRI | A beginning for cot or angle |
| AMBI | Both, as a beginning |
| STARTOFF | Make a beginning |
| ASTARTE | Goddess declares, a beginning and end of love (7) |
| MIDDLEC | "Home" key for a beginning piano student |
| PROLOGUE | Urge pool exercise as a beginning (8) |
| HAITI | Country's success, securing a beginning to independence (5) |
| ABCS | What a beginning reader has to learn |
| ORIGIN | I ring haphazardly round first, as a beginning (6) |
| AMBIT | Scope for chess ploy without a beginning (5) |
| OODLES | Lots of sketches without a beginning (6) |
| ENTER | Make a beginning |
