- The Stars, Like Dust author
- The start of a football match
- The start of an invention
- The start of being in decay or destruction
- The start of it is for fools (Abbr.)
- The start of something
- The start of something big?
- The start of the four theme entries, collectively
- The start of time
- The starters, in sports
- The starting players
- the starting point for a new state or experience
- The starts of 18-, 23-, 39- and 52-Across
- The starts of answers to asterisked clues are the most popular adult Halloween ones
- The starts of this puzzle's six longest answers are types of them
- The starts of this puzzle's three longest answers are shades of it
- The starts to 17-, 30-, 38- and 47-Across, collectively
- the state (in a drug) of being subpotent, having less than normal potency
- The State actor Michael ___ Black
- The State and Revolution author
- The State and Revolution writer
- the state being unable to produce offsping
- the state being undying
- the state cannot be a servant of the church
- the state capital and largest city located in south central Arizona
- the state capital and largest city of Colorado
- the state capital of Alabama on the Mobile River
- the state capital of Alaska
- the state capital of Ohio
- the state capital of South Australia
- the state capital of Western Australia
- the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress
- the state in which esteem has been lost
- the state of a baronet
- the state of a child between infancy and adolescence
- the state of a person who has attained maturity
- the state of a serf
- the state of actually existing objectively
- the state of aggregation of soil and its condition for supporting plant growth
- the state of bearing in mind
- The state of becoming a mother
- The state of begin absent
- the state of being
- the state of being a bastard; bastardy
- the state of being a beggar or mendicant
- the state of being a blockbuster
- the state of being a criminal
- the state of being a daredevil
- the state of being a demoniac
- the state of being a dilettante
- the state of being a drab
- the state of being a father
- the state of being a fellow or partner
- the state of being a fixed characteristic
- the state of being a gentleman
- the state of being a gladiator
- the state of being a goddess
- the state of being a gombeen
- the state of being a gourmand
- the state of being a graduate
- the state of being a gunman
- the state of being a halophyte
- the state of being a hegemony
- the state of being a hemitrope, a twinned crystal
- the state of being a heterotroph, a secondary feeder eating plants or other animals
- the state of being a hidalgo, a Spanish nobleman of the lower class
- the state of being a highbrow
- the state of being a hippie
- the state of being a hipster, a person who knows and appreciates up-to-date jazz
- the state of being a hobbledehoy
- the state of being a hobbledehoy, an awkward young fellow
- the state of being a hobgoblin
- the state of being a holder eg of a bill
- the state of being a hoyden
- the state of being a huckster
- the state of being a hyperparasite, a parasite that is parasitic upon another parasite
- the state of being a licentiate
- the state of being a lowbrow
- the state of being a maiden
- the state of being a man
- the state of being a manager
- the state of being a mandarin
- the state of being a martinet
- the state of being a master
- the state of being a matron
- the state of being a member
- the state of being a mesomorph
- the state of being a messiah
- the state of being a milksop
- the state of being a mother
- the state of being a nation
- the state of being a novice
- the state of being a nullipara
- the state of being a paramorph
- the state of being a partner
- the state of being a pedagogue
- the state of being a peneplain
- the state of being a perimorph
- the state of being a person
- the state of being a pharisee, a self-righteous or hypocritical person
- the state of being a probationer
- the state of being a procurator
- the state of being a progenitor
- the state of being a progressive tax
- the state of being a prophet
- the state of being a prosector
- the state of being a psychopath
- the state of being a pupil or legal ward
- the state of being a refugee
- the state of being a resident
- the state of being a servant
- the state of being a sister
- the state of being a skeuomorph
- the state of being a slave
- the state of being a spinster
- the state of being a subject
- the state of being a tautochrone
- the state of being a tetradactyl, a four-toed animal
- the state of being a toddler
- the state of being a trainee
- the state of being a traitor
- the state of being a transsexual
- the state of being a vagabond
- the state of being a victim
- the state of being a villein
- the state of being a waiter
- the state of being a werewolf
- the state of being a woman; femininity
- the state of being abnormal
- the state of being aboriginal
- the state of being absent
- the state of being acquainted
- the state of being actual or real
- the state of being adventurous
- the state of being afflicted
- the state of being alkalescent
- the state of being alkaline
- the state of being allegorical
- The state of being alone
- the state of being alone in solitary isolation
- the state of being alternative
- the state of being amissible, liable to be lost
- the state of being an adult woman
- the state of being an allomorph
- the state of being an apprentice
- the state of being an attorney
- the state of being an ellipse
- the state of being an enantiomorph, an object which is the mirror image of another
- the state of being an endoparasite, a parasite that lives inside an animal
- the state of being an epiphyte, a plant which grows upon another plant
- the state of being an expatriate
- the state of being an imbecile
- the state of being an invalid
- the state of being an isomer
- the state of being an orphan
- the state of being analyzable
- the state of being androdioecious, having hermaphrodite and male flowers on separate plants
- the state of being angry
- the state of being anisotropic
- the state of being anonymous
- the state of being antecedent
- the state of being anticlerical
- the state of being antique
- the state of being apocryphal
- the state of being appetising
- the state of being approachable
- the state of being appropriate
- the state of being aquiline
- the state of being aromatic
- the state of being artificial
- the state of being ascendant
- the state of being ascetic
- the state of being ashamed
- the state of being asleep
- the state of being aspiring
- the state of being assentive
- the state of being assorted
- the state of being astonished
- the state of being asynchronous
- the state of being atrabilious, melancholy or morose
- the state of being attracted
- the state of being attributive
- the state of being autodidactic
- the state of being automatic
- the state of being autotetraploid
- the state of being avascular
- the state of being aversive, showing aversion
- the state of being avowable
- The state of being away
- the state of being aweless
- the state of being axisymmetric
- the state of being banished or ostracized
- the state of being bankrupt
- the state of being bearable
- the state of being behind in payments
- the state of being beneficent
- the state of being beneficial
- the state of being benevolent
- the state of being bent back
- the state of being benumbed
- the state of being beseeching
- the state of being beseeming
- the state of being bespotted
- the state of being bestial
- the state of being bewildered
- the state of being biconvex
- the state of being bighearted
- the state of being binocular
- the state of being blamable
- the state of being blameable
- the state of being blank
- the state of being blasphemous
- the state of being blind or lacking sight
- the state of being bloodguilty
- the state of being bloody
- the state of being bright
- the state of being brilliant
- the state of being brimful
- the state of being brimfull
- the state of being brittle
- the state of being brothers
- the state of being bulbous
- the state of being bullheaded
- the state of being buoyant
- The state of being calm and self-controlled
- the state of being cancelled or annulled
- the state of being carelessly or partially dressed
- the state of being certain
- the state of being clean and conducive to health
- the state of being cognitively skillful
- the state of being combined into one body
- the state of being concerned and anxious
- the state of being condemned to eternal misery in Hell
- the state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell
- the state of being confined
- the state of being contaminated
- the state of being contented with your situation in life
- the state of being contingent on something
- the state of being corrupt
- the state of being counterproductive
- the state of being covered with unclean things
- the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect
- the state of being daredevil
- the state of being debarred
- the state of being debonair
- the state of being decayed or destroyed
- the state of being decomposable
- the state of being decrepit
- the state of being deducible
- the state of being defective