NOUN: "the initial stage or starting point" Crossword Clue

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NOUN: "the initial stage or starting point" Crossword Answer

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INITIAL (verb)
1. mark with one’s initials
INITIAL (adjective)
1. occurring at the beginning
INITIAL (noun)
1. the first letter of a word (especially a person’s name)
STARTING (noun)
1. a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning)
STARTING (adjective)
1. appropriate to the beginning or start of an event
2. (especially of eyes) bulging or protruding as with fear

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6. VERB: "to spring into the air"

10. "My opinion on this is..."

14. Bedard or Cara

15. Surgeon/author Gawande

16. NOUN: "a plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining or creeps along the ground"

17. PLURAL NOUN: "[money] awarded in excess of compensation to the plaintiff to [penalize] a defendant for a serious wrong"

20. ___-cone

21. Squeezy serpents

22. Charles Ponzi and Bernie Madoff, for two

23. Lumberjack's tools

24. Served brunch to, say

25. NOUN: "heightened fuss or concern"

26. VERB: "to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess"

29. Popular noodles

31. "That's ___ shame"

32. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "city south of Grand Rapids in southwestern Michigan population 74,262"

36. NOUN: "a tribal poet-singer skilled in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds"

37. Famously annoying adjective

38. Tiniest speck

41. ADJECTIVE: "of strange or extraordinary character "

42. ADJECTIVE: "unpleasant; disagreeable"

43. "___ and the Man" (1970s sitcom starring Freddie Prinze)

44. German exclamation

47. Unlikely to be the life of the party

48. "Don't ___ your day job"

49. 2028 Summer Olympics host nation

51. "No ___" (designation on some cartons of orange juice)

52. Gloomy ___ (soul mate of a Debbie Downer)

55. NOUN: "the amount of greenhouse gases...emitted by something (such as a person's activities or a product's manufacture and transport) during a given period"

58. NOUN: "a place swarming with activity"

59. Words often spoken sarcastically

60. ADVERB: "before the usual or expected time"

61. Part of AFC or ABC

62. Name, as an authority

63. ___ into (explore, as a topic)

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1. Party-table choices

2. "Can ___ something by you?"

3. COMBINING FORM: "guest; foreigner"

4. Ending for pepper

5. NOUN: "a [shot] that on the service (as in tennis)...strikes the top of the [mid-court barrier] and lands in the service court but must be served over"

6. Coffeehouse orders

7. Tribe for whom a U.S. state was named

8. Peppa Pig loves it

9. Table setting feature

10. Tennis great Lendl

11. Two after pi

12. "Find ___ and fill it" (business advice)

13. Question answer options, often

18. "What do ___ you?"

19. Router's cousin

23. Time to relax

24. ADJECTIVE: "intentionally untrue"

26. Keep ___ on (monitor)

27. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "country in southwestern Asia"

28. Novelist Daniel Alarcón's country

29. ADJECTIVE: "marked by, abounding with, or bringing [certain precipitation]"

30. "Whatever you need, just let me know!"

32. Amusingly unconventional

33. ADJECTIVE COMBINING FORM: "of, relating to, or being a (specified) geologic era"

34. "Al ___ Lado del Rio" (Oscar-winning song from "The Motorcycle Diaries")

35. ABBREVIATION: "[a venerable reference bk.]"

37. NOUN: "one who repairs [cars]"

40. Rene in "Get Shorty"

41. ___ cream

43. "Melt with You" band, with "The"

44. "Right back ___!"

45. Hebrew for "life"

46. Villechaize who played Tattoo on "Fantasy Island"

48. VERB: "to speak or write (a passage) from another usually with credit acknowledgment"

50. PREFIX: "to an extreme or excessive degree"

51. "I'm a ___ and I know it"

52. NOUN: "a female child from birth to adulthood"

53. Sch. located in Paradise

54. Eyelid issue

56. Org. in many action movies

57. Charlotte of "Diff'rent Strokes"

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