| TEEDOFF | Started out, in golf (4,3) |
| IRON | Smooth things out in golf club |
| COUGAR | This long-lived nameplate in Ford's Mercury model range started out in 1967 as a Mercury version of the Mustang (6) |
| DEPARTED | Started out in an action role (8) |
| POM | Started out in Plymouth or Manchester (3) |
| AMOSANDANDY | Radio comedy duo that started out in 1928 |
| STRIATED | I started out in parallel lines (8) |
| HBC | Canadian corp. that started out in the fur trade |
| COORS | Beer that started out in Colorado |
| ISLE | Lewis for example, started out in second level entry (4) |
| ANWAR | Gabrielle _, Burn Notice actress who started out in Press Gang (5) |
| ARSENAL | London football club that started out as Dial Square in 1886 |
| SALLIED | Started out |
| PROJECT | "Woke Up Late" band that started out as buskers on the streets of Wellington, Drax ... (7) |
| JOHNNIE | _ Walker, veteran DJ who started out on pirate radio (7) |
| OASIS | Desert haven started out as sand in Sahara (5) |
| FIRSTDATES | You started out going "50 ___" in a |
| ANTANDDEC | TV duo who started out as PJ and Duncan in Byker Grove (3,3,3) |
| ONCEUPONATIME | In the past, started out to tell the story (4,4,1,4) |
| MERCHANTSEAMAN | A trader started out with a sailor, in the main (8,6) |
