VERB: "to do the first part of an action" Crossword Clue

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VERB: "to do the first part of an action" Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
2. set in motion, cause to start
(noun)
1. Israeli statesman (born in Russia) who (as prime minister of Israel) negotiated a peace treaty with Anwar Sadat (then the president of Egypt) (1913-1992)

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

ACTION (noun)
1. a military engagement
2. a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong
ACTION (verb)
1. institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
2. put in effect
VERB (noun)
1. a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence
2. the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence

Hint 3: Anagram

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BEING

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Across

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17. INTERJECTION: "used to express fear or astonishment"

20. NOUN: "a usually high speed expressed by a... number"

22. PHRASE: "[should that be] the case"

23. ADVERB OR ADJECTIVE: "out of line"

25. Its workers dress in brown

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1. "You are so naughty!"

2. VERB: "to be under obligation to pay or repay in return for something received"

3. NOUN: "[an occasion] for punishment for something that was done in the past"

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5. ADJECTIVE: "strikingly attractive or appealing"

6. NOUN: "a cured cooked sausage (as of beef or beef and pork) that may be skinless or stuffed in a casing"

7. "Feliz cumpleaños ___"

8. ABBREVIATION: "which was to be [proven]"

14. Number in many movie titles

15. "Today" rival, briefly

16. Faux-___ (social error)

18. ABBREVIATION: "[purported skill] (as in telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition) that involves awareness of information about events external to the self not gained through the senses and not deducible from previous experience"

19. Plea from the sea

21. INTERJECTION: "used typically to...express scorn, amusement, or surprise"

24. NOUN: "[a] Celtic language"

27. "___ Man of Constant Sorrow"

28. Hip Southwestern city, briefly

29. Gehrig or Grant

31. NOUN: "a rotating or sliding piece (such as an eccentric wheel or a cylinder with an irregular shape) in a mechanical linkage used especially in transforming rotary motion into linear motion or vice versa"

32. "Another 48 ___" (1990 sequel)

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