| CLASSY | Form you begin to find stylish |
| SCRATCHTHE | Just begin to find out how to graze one's skin perhaps (7,3,7) |
| SURFACE | Just begin to find out how to graze one's skin perhaps (7,3,7) |
| RIDGE | Construction over river doesn't begin to find bank (5) |
| SETOUT | What you aim to do before you begin a journey (3,3) |
| DOREMI | As Maria sings in The Sound of Music: "When you sing, you begin with ..." (2-2-2) |
| STARTLE | It will take you aback when you begin to meet the French (7) |
| NITESCIS | You begin to shine, inchoative form (so 3rd conj.) of a 2nd conj. verb (8) |
| ESPY | With telepathy you begin to observe (4) |
| SETABOUT | Just as you begin to attack (3,5) |
| UPSTART | When out of bed, you begin to be pretentious and vulgar |
| WORRY | Without priest, you begin to feel concern |
| WONKY | You begin to experience lift if unsteady (5) |
| INTENSIFY | Like decimals, as long as you begin to boost (9) |
| EVIL | What "begins when you begin to treat people as things," per Terry Pratchett |
| ITCHY | It's at the start of church that you begin to get scratchy (5) |
| ABC | "When you read you begin with ___ / When you sing you begin with do-re-mi" ("The Sound of Music" lyrics) |
| MULE | Form you will use finally for a kind of slipper |
| EMU | Flightless bird with the form you finished |
| PEKE | It's good form, you say, pet (4) |
