Very beginning Crossword Clue

Other answers seen for this clue

• OUTSET6 letters

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  Appeared in 2 New York Times Crosswords between October 2014 and August 2023.
• VEE3 letters

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  Appeared in 2 New York Times Crosswords between April 2007 and May 2018.

• Commencement

  New York Times · Saturday, September 20, 2025 · 5 letters

• Outset

  New York Times · Monday, June 16, 2025 · 5 letters

• Beginning, informally

  New York Times · Thursday, May 10, 2018 · 5 letters

• First moment

  New York Times · Saturday, April 13, 2013 · 5 letters

• Square one, slangily

  New York Times · Monday, February 20, 2006 · 5 letters

• Start

  New York Times · Friday, December 24, 2004 · 5 letters

• Outset, slangily

  New York Times · Saturday, March 15, 2003 · 5 letters

• Beginning, in slang

  New York Times · Sunday, August 16, 1998 · 5 letters

More clues from this crossword

• 49-Down Have good chemistry (with)
• 50-Down Sometime
• 51-Down Airman's superiors: Abbr.
• 52-Across Cut and paste, e.g.
• 53-Across "The old me is gone" ... or what happened between the first and second parts of 19-, 28-, 37- and 48-Across?
• 54-Down Something a barb can hurt
• 55-Down Oxford figure
• 56-Across Wine dregs
• 57-Across Cardinal point?
• 59-Across Acid
• 60-Across Slips
• 61-Across Name on a poster for 1942's "The Magnificent Ambersons"