| LOGIC | "___ is the beginning of wisdom ... not the end": Spock |
| WINTERSOLSTICE | The beginning of wisdom: Solomon briefly fills gap on shortest day (6,8) |
| EARL | Lord with a bit of wisdom, not quiet? (4) |
| ONESELF | "To love ___ is the beginning of a lifelong romance": Wilde |
| END | Churchill's El Alamein victory speech on November 10, 1942: "It is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the ... of the beginning" |
| THEEND | Churchill's declared, "It is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps ... of the beginning" (3,3) |
| GENESIS | Possibly seeing the summit of Snowdon is the beginning of something (7) |
| BROOKMYRE | Christopher, author of the novels Not the End of the World and Country of the Blind (9) |
| CASABLANCA | 1942 film that ends with the line "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" |
| OSCARWILDE | "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." source |
| NOMADISM | No -- crazy is the beginning of mind wandering (8) |
| IDEAL | 'To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance,' wrote Oscar Wilde in his play, An ... Husb |
| PROPERSTRANGER | "Dark day, windy city / Raincoat on my shoulder..." is the beginning of what Guess Who song?: 2 wds. |
| ZETA | Letter that, surprisingly, is not the end of the Greek alphabet |
| EPICURUS | Philosopher of ancient Greece (341-270 BC) who believed that 'pleasure is the beginning and end of living happily' (8) |
| SEMIFINAL | Crashed in flames around capital of Italy? It's not the end of the contest |
| COURTSHIP | It's not the end of the affair for Judge Small in Vogue (9) |
| RELAX | "It's not the end of the world" |
| TOLERABLE | Not the end of the world |
| ITS | "_ _ _ not the end of the world" |
