First letters indicators
Look at the first letters of some words.
Take the first letter of each of several consecutive words. When the whole clue does this it is called an acrostic. The number of words involved often equals the answer length.
Common First letters indicators
- at first
- at the start
- beginning of
- beginnings of
- capital of
- capitals
- early
- first
- first letters
- first of
- first of all
- firstly
- front of
- fronts
- head of
- heads
- heads of
- initially
- introductions
- leader
- leaders
- leading
- openers
- opening
- openings
- originally
- primarily
- principally
- start of
- starting
- starts
- starts of
- top of
- tops
Other indicator types
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