Start to a play Crossword Clue

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Start to a play Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

PLAY (verb)
1. contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
2. pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
PLAY (noun)
1. a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
2. the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully
START (verb)
1. get off the ground
2. bulge outward
START (noun)
1. the time at which something is supposed to begin
2. a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game

Hint 2: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
OCTANE

More Daily Beast Crossword (9/2/2025) Answers

Across

1. With 13-Across: 24-Across and Jason Kelce's podcast

4. Drake's "Make Me ___"

9. "___ You Being Served?" (classic Britcom)

10. All of an artist's works, collectively

11. Burton who directed "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice"

12. Marked down in price

13. See 1-Across

15. Church recesses

16. Tour that concluded about ten months ago

20. 19th-century political cartoonist Thomas

21. Bela on banjo

22. Song on Taylor Swift's recent album "Life of a Showgirl," which 24-Across revealed on a recent broadcast is his favorite track on the album

24. Kelce now engaged to Tay-Tay

27. "___ You See Me; ___ You Don't" (heist sequel out this November; same word goes in each blank)

28. Ella Langley's "___ for the Wind"

29. Compass dir

30. "Hearts ___" (1990s sitcom)

31. The ___ Clay Strays ("Devil in My Ear" band)

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Down

1. Lane in Hollywood

2. City on a Great Lake, casually

3. Nicki Minaj's "___ You"

4. __-up demand

5. Crowe in 2024's "Kraven the Hunter"

6. Eggs, in biology class

7. Address on the Web

8. Raj's little sister on "What's Happening!!"

10. __ and aahs

14. Move past, as a setback

17. "Spinal Tap II: The End Continues" director Rob

19. Threw off, as survey results

21. "___ Car" (song performed by Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs at the Grammys in February)

23. Chris in 2022's "The Contractor"

24. Airline from 1930 to 2001

25. Flag thrower

26. Vincent's agent on "Entourage"

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