| Text | Length |
| Made the first bid | 18 |
| Made the first bet | 18 |
| Bottle cap remover | 18 |
| Game 1 of a series | 18 |
| Headliner preceder | 18 |
| Corkscrew, for one | 18 |
| Come one, come all | 18 |
| Come one come all | 18 |
| Starts the bidding | 18 |
| Some golf tourneys | 18 |
| Begins the bidding | 18 |
| Starts the betting | 18 |
| Broaches, in a way | 18 |
| Bids one club, say | 18 |
| Begins on Broadway | 18 |
| Debuts, as a movie | 18 |
| Invites the public | 18 |
| Annual tournaments | 18 |
| Pirate's place | 18 |
| Where pirates prey | 18 |
| Pirates' place | 18 |
| Oceans free to all | 18 |
| Ali Baba's cry | 18 |
| Not against trying | 18 |
| Like some footwear | 18 |
| Yell before a raid | 18 |
| Phone co. employee | 18 |
| Phone button abbr. | 18 |
| Letters on a phone | 18 |
| Phone-co. employee | 18 |
| Phone-button abbr. | 18 |
| Phone button label | 18 |
| Letters near zero? | 18 |
| Button below the 8 | 18 |
| Abbr. not on cells | 18 |
| Drama set to music | 18 |
| Puccini production | 18 |
| Covent Garden fare | 18 |
| Wagner composition | 18 |
| Price performance? | 18 |
| Beethoven made one | 18 |
| Work with choruses | 18 |
| Wagner's forte | 18 |
| The works, to Cato | 18 |
| Offenbach offering | 18 |
| Lulu or Louise | 18 |
| Gounod's forte | 18 |
| Donizetti offering | 18 |
| Diva's setting | 18 |
| Covent Garden show | 18 |
| Buffo's milieu | 18 |
| Collapsible topper | 18 |
| Topper for the Met | 18 |
| La Scala offerings | 18 |
| Some musical shows | 18 |
| Sacchini creations | 18 |
| Leitmotif settings | 18 |
| Gluck's output | 18 |
| Many a Handel work | 18 |
| Be at the controls | 18 |
| Run, as a business | 18 |
| Go in, so to speak | 18 |
| Do a hip job, say? | 18 |
| Switchboard worker | 18 |
| Shady business man | 18 |
| Lehár specialty | 18 |
| Comic musical work | 18 |
| Light musical work | 18 |
| Unlocks, in poetry | 18 |
| Begins, poetically | 18 |
| Unlocks, to Milton | 18 |
| Unfolds, in poetry | 18 |
| Uncovers, in poems | 18 |
| Uncloses, to poets | 18 |
| Uncloses, in poesy | 18 |
| Displays, in verse | 18 |
| Addictive narcotic | 18 |
| Sense-dulling drug | 18 |
| Sense dulling drug | 18 |
| Ron Howard TV role | 18 |
| Boy of '60s TV | 18 |
| Aunt Bee's boy | 18 |
| The Cornish Wonder | 18 |
| Mayberry schoolboy | 18 |
| Mayberry boy of TV | 18 |
| Aunt Bee's tot | 18 |
| Have one's say | 18 |
| Say what you think | 18 |
| Willa Cather novel | 18 |
| It's addictive | 18 |
| De Quincey subject | 18 |
| American marsupial | 18 |
| Smallish marsupial | 18 |
| Not similar: Abbr. | 18 |
| Across from: Abbr. | 18 |
| Take sides against | 18 |
| Weigh heavily upon | 18 |
| Put under the yoke | 18 |
| Sm. and lge., e.g. | 18 |
| Longtime talk show | 18 |
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