| ARTI | Beginning of the |
| CREMATION | The whole universe contained the beginning of the mind and the end of the body (9) |
| SUMERIAN | Language of Mesopotamia from 3,000 BCE until it finally fell from use at the beginning of the first millennium of the current era |
| SHIRE | Where Gandalf visits Bilbo at the beginning of "The Lord of the Rings," with "the" |
| FIRSTHEAT | The beginning of the eliminations with the awakening of passion in the paddock (5,4) |
| BLOODLESSSURGERY | Term popularised by the practice of Dr Adolf Lorenz of Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century |
| FIRSTDRAFT | Preliminary version of a writing composition ... or how to describe the beginning of the answers to each of the starred clues? |
| RESCUE | Event at the beginning of "The Return of the Jedi" |
| SAINTBARTHOLOMEWSDAY | Commemorated on August 24, what day marks the beginning of the slaughter of the French Huguenots, in |
| GLAMOUR | The prestige of changing notes at the beginning of the uproar (7) |
| STORMING | - of the Bastille; an event that marked the beginning of the French Revolution (8) |
| BADDAY | Dad at the end of May, Attorney at the beginning of the year. We all have one (3,3) |
| MUDDY | The Greek letter to the theologian at the beginning of the year was grubby (5) |
| ASPERGES | Rite of sprinkling holy water at the beginning of the Mass in the Catholic Church |
| JANITOR | Caretaker from the beginning of the year to the end of October (7) |
| HEARD | "The shot ___ round the world" - RW Emerson on the beginning of the American Revolutionary War (5) |
| RISOTTO | "How to Cook the Perfect ___" (episode of "How to with John Wilson" that chronicles the beginning of the pandemic) |
| LAMMAS | From Old English for "loaf feast", a festival traditionally observed on August 1 to celebrate the beginning of the harvest and the first of its fruits (6) |
| BAKELITE | The 1909 patent of what product is considered the beginning of the modern plastics industry? (8) |
| HENRYFIELDING | British novelist whose most famous protagonist can be found at the beginning of the answers to the s |
