| Conversation starters |
| Valentine misspelling |
| Mr. Tambourine Man" band at spelling competitions? |
| Center starter? |
| Aircraft starter |
| Spelling assembly |
| Alphabetic starters |
| A total ten, spelled slangily |
| Orgs. often spelled out using arms |
| Alphabet starters |
| Starters who are stoppers |
| Amelia Earhart flight starter, for example? |
| Actor Fogler who won a Tony for "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee |
| Actor Burton who's behind a Kickstarter project to revive "Reading Rainbow |
| Firestarter |
| And remember, mud spelled backwards is ___" (Bugs Bunny) |
| Word after quilting or spelling |
| Inadequate (whose initials spell "testicles") |
| Active starter |
| Actor McDermott, also known as Mr. Tori Spelling |
| Aeneid" starter |
| Spellbound |
| How amorous firestarters might start the fire, or a golf scoring system interrupted? |
| Conspirator's cautious conversation starter |
| Curiously spelled 1960 Al Cohn tune |
| Abbreviated work week starter |
| Bell opening? (and this puzzle's theme spelled out) |
| Creatively spelled Christina Aguilera single (I know, can you believe Miley wasn't the first one desperate to look sexy?) |
| A starter of a sort |
| Salutation starter |