- ATOB
- Simple travel route
- First step in a series
- What should be connected with a pen or pencil (mentally, if you're solving digitally), creating part of four visual representations of the meta answer in the grid
- Hardly the full gamut
- Very narrow range
- From __ (one step)
- First step's span
- Bit of progress
- Direct route
- Path without deviation
- Detourless way
- Direct designation
- Progress from the start
- Route with no detour
- Route with no detours
- Bit of progression from the start
- (She) runs the gamut of emotions from ___ (Dorothy Parker)
- Get from ___ (progress a bit)
- Getting from ___ (making progress)
- Get from ___ (progress)
- Important first step, metaphorically
- Short step, for short
- Small progress
- Get from ___ (progress slightly)
- Short range
- First step?
- The first of many steps
- Travel route with no points in between
- Phrase indicating slight progress, and a hint to this puzzle's theme
- Small step
- Tiny bit of progress
- First volume of an encyclopedia, back when they were made with paper and you had to buy them
- She ran the gamut of emotions from __: Dorothy Parker
- From __: slight progress
- Get from __: advance slightly
- Metaphorical small distance
- Phrase indicating small progress
- 41-Down, metaphorically
- Baby step?
- Distance covered by a first step
- Initial step, metaphorically
- Simple step
- Minimal step
- First step in a progression
- Initial step
- Narrow range
- Get from __: make slow progress
- She ran the whole gamut of emotions from __
- Get from __ (progress slowly)
- Volume 1 contents, maybe
- Straightforward path
- Minimal progress
- Not a long range
- Simple route
- Not know from ___ (be ignorant)
- From ___ (opening bit)
- Get from ___ (make progress)
- Volume 1 of an encyclopedia, maybe
- Slight progress, after "from"
- Basic travel path
- First volume of an encyclopedia, perhaps
- Basic first step
- Get from ___ (advance slightly)
- One small step
- The first step
- Very limited range
- First leg of an itinerary
- First small bit of progress
- Progress made in step one
- Path of progress
- Basic objective route
- First little bit of progress
- First step of progress
- Get from _____ (make progress)
- Getting from _____ (making progress)
- From ___ (small step)
- Subtitle of an encyclopedia's first volume, maybe
- Travel route: from ___
- Go from ___ (advance slightly)
- Minimal bit of progress
- From __ (small step)
- Simple route between two points
- Katharine Hepburn's acting gamut, per Dorothy Parker
- Katharine Hepburn's acting gamut, according to Dorothy Parker
- Katharine Hepburn's acting gamut, in a Dorothy Parker quip
