| ROCKYSTART | "Here's a young Stallone, getting off to a ___" |
| SHAKY | Off to a ___ start (needing to improve) |
| HEARSAY | Rumour is a year's getting off to a hard start (7) |
| INNINGS | Getting off to a late start spoils cricket session |
| GOODSTART | What a procrastinator may have trouble getting off to |
| BULLY | Sort of beef about getting off to start the match (5) |
| SNAIL | 'Will you walk a little faster?' said a whiting to a ___' (Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865) (5) |
| NUNNERY | Get thee to a ___ , Hamlet's advice to Ophelia to avoid breeding sinners (7) |
| WINDOW | Want to grow berries in the winter? Plant them in a flowerpot and place it next to a ___ so that they can reach for the 2D |
| DUEL | In a ridiculous approach to an 1808 dispute, two Frenchmen in love with the same ballerina agreed to a ___ in hot air balloons (Monsieur de Grandpre shot LePique's balloon, sending him -- and his copi |
| PRETTYPASS | Come to a ___, phrase meaning 'to reach a regrettable state of affairs' (6,4) |
| KILL | "A View to a ___" (Bond film) |
| NEWHOSPITALWING | Five doctors were asked to move their offices to a ___ |
| RIPE | Live to a ___ old age (last a long time) |
| FLAME | Like a moth to a ___, expression (5) |
| BULL | It's like a red rag to a ___, saying (4) |
| NIGHTINGALE | Ode to a ___ : a poem by Keats ? (11) |
| PANHANDLER | "To a ___ Who, for a Quarter, Said 'God Bless You' " (David Wagoner poem) |
| TANGO | Ballroom experts get it right to a _TO |
| CARPOOL | Pun times: Where would every soccer moms' vehicle rather be on a 100degrees day? Relaxing next to a ___* |
