| SETSTO | Begins in a committed manner |
| WHOLEHEARTEDLY | In a sincere and committed manner |
| NOTORIETY | Infamy that is tainting at first in a committed Socialist? |
| MONOGAMISH | In a committed but not entirely exclusive relationship, per a modern coinage |
| TRI | Race in which one begins in a wetsuit, for short |
| ATHOME | Where charity begins, in a phrase |
| ISLAM | Its calendar begins in A.D. 622 |
| MENACHEM | Begin in a history book |
| PARTISAN | Quiet worker in a skilled trade of a committed nature (8) |
| SPEC | On ___: without a committed buyer |
| DALLIANCE | Trifling gets many to a committed union (9) |
| SINGLE | (and 16) Determined to remain a committed bachelor? (6) |
| CONFIRMED | Like a committed Christian, it was borne out (9) |
| INSANE | Like a committed person? |
| MONOGAMIST | I, among most at work, will be a committed union member |
| ALOT | Chewed oatmeal mixture, yet finally was a committed carnivore - w 21dn (3,4,1,3) |
| ATEMEAT | Chewed oatmeal mixture, yet finally was a committed carnivore - w 5dn (3,4,1,3) |
| DON | Which novel begins "in a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to recall ..."? (3,7) |
| WISDOM | "A poem begins in delight and ends in ___": Frost |
| RUTH | Book that begins "In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land" |
