| GETOFFTHEGROUND | Make a good start explaining what red card requires player to do |
| EMOTIVE | Start explaining reason for being demonstrative. (7) |
| BEGINWELL | Make a good start to open a source of water (5,4) |
| BONNET | Makes a good start catching fish but it goes to her head |
| GETSTOFIRSTBASE | Makes a good start |
| COURSE | Series of lessons explaining what to do in car accidents? (5,6) |
| CRASH | Series of lessons explaining what to do in car accidents? (5,6) |
| LAUNCHPAD | Secretary meets director after a filling meal - it's a good start to a career |
| GRADES | A good start for a boy to get good marks (6) |
| ANYTHINGGOES | Musical set on an ocean liner, explaining what's lost in answers to asterisked clues (8,4) |
| NOTIMETOSPARE | Very busy explaining what the Reign of Terror was (2,4,2,5) |
| OTHERHALF | Hubby explaining what happens after teams change ends? (5,4) |
| WHITE | There's little point in explaining what "au lait" means (5) |
| WELLAWAY | Off to a good start, is in a favourable position |
| ABRIDGE | A newly-wed had a good start to cut things short (7) |
| AGREE | After a good start, is about to engage, initially. One had to be consistent (5) |
| ICEBREAKER | What got the shipyard party off to a good start? (3,7) |
| STOP | What red means to a motorist |
| GOWITHTHEWOLF | What Red Riding Hood wisely didn't do? |
| SUB | What Red October is in "The Hunt for Red October," for short |
