- OPENS
- Plays first in cards
- Starts the game
- Unlocks
- Unseals
- Warms up the crowd
- Displays, as a file
- Some tournaments
- Bids a club, say
- Starts
- Letterman lists
- Accepts customers
- Starts accepting customers
- Blooms
- Starts, as the bidding
- Plays before the main act
- Begins the bidding
- Prepares to let in customers
- Unwraps
- Clears up
- Starts the show
- Hits theaters
- Starts the bidding
- Stops a lockdown, say
- Some meets
- Uses a slim jim
- Yields to a key
- Starts the day, business-wise
- See 57-Across
- Initiates
- Unfolds
- Performs first
- Takes the earliest shift, say
- Cracks, e.g.
- Nadal's won many of them
- Starts to sell
- Kicks off
- Gets the ball rolling
- Bets first
- Announces a pair of jacks or better
- Unrestricted tournaments
- Starts doing business
- Uncaps
- Begins on Broadway
- Tennis tourneys
- Bids first
- Is ready for business
- Leads the bidding
- Warms up the audience
- Begins a Broadway run
- Makes a debut
- Uses a key on
- Removes the wrapper from
- Plays first
- Starts, as a game of poker
- Makes the first ante
- Some Sahalee events
- Establishes, as a restaurant
- Prepares for business
- Unleashes
- Bids one club
- Takes off the top
- Certain tournaments
- Flips the sign, maybe
- Starts to receive patrons
- Some major tournaments
- Makes the first bid
- Starts to receive customers
- Invites the public
- U.S., French and Australian tournaments
- Begins a tour
- Admits customers
- Begins
- Makes the first bet
- Pops the top off
- Makes the first move
- Starts the day
- Gets down to business?
- Goes on first
- Pops the cork from
- Debuts
- Majors in golf and tennis?
- Is the first act
- Starts the betting
- Inaugurates
- Many golf tourneys
- Begins the betting
- Uncorks
- Some golf tournaments
- Makes accessible
- Course events
- Cracks
- Allows customers in
- Cuts the ribbon
- Unclogs
- Has its premiere
- Gives access to
- Removes, as a clog
- Some major tourneys
- Starts bidding
- Tournaments that anyone can enter
- Gives access.
- Commences.
- Golf tourneys.
- Starts the proceedings.
- Certain golf tournaments.
- Begins a season.
- Leads off.
- Expands.
- Spreads out.
- Reveals.
- Raises the lid.
- Discloses.
- Starts operations.
- Certain golf matches.
- Enters upon.
- Unrolls.
- Renders accessible.
- Links events.
- Certain sports tourneys
- Premieres
- Some golf tourneys
- Makes the first poker bet
- Golf tournaments
- Emulates Pandora
- Lifts the lid
- Tournaments like Wimbledon's
- Gapes
- Starts, in bridge
- Does what Pandora did
- Releases
- Starts business
- Hits Broadway
- Unbars
- Certain sports events
- Uncloses
- Unzips
- Cracks a crate
- Golf events
- Has a premiere
- Uncovers
- Unfastens
- Jimmies
- Says "one club," maybe
- Annual tournaments
- Pays (up)
- Broaches, in a way
- Does a warm-up (for)
- Big tournaments
- Court contests
- Bids one club, e.g.
- Starts off
- Tourneys for all
- Taps, in a way
- Bids one club, say
- Moves first
- Double-clicks on, say
- Taps, as a keg
- Is on first
- Some sports tournaments
- Unwraps, e.g.
- Warms up the crowd, in a way
- Warms up the crowd, say
- Goes first
- Uncorks, perhaps
- Soundgarden: "Switch ___"
- What regretful rocker does on Barbara Walters, with "up"
- What first band does
- Warms up the audience for a headliner, say
- Tennis events
- Says "ah!"
- Starts serving
- Hits theatres
- Begins admitting customers
- Pops the cork
- Broaches
- Admits the first customers
- Hangs out one's shingle
- Starts the business day, e.g.
- Pops the top
- Parts, as a curtain
- Removes wrapping
- Tournaments for any
- Accepts visitors
- Double-clicks on, perhaps
- Starts welcoming customers
- Starts the day's business
- Unwraps, maybe
- Goes first, in chess
- Uncorks, maybe
- Clears the way
- Tournaments for amateurs and pros
- United States and British
- Sports competitions
- Doesn't check or fold
- Debuts, as a movie
- Precedes the headliner
- Does the warmup act
- Becomes ready for customers
- Unboxes, maybe
- Unboxes, say
- Performs before the main act
- Performs first in a concert
- Unboxes
- Works the first shift of the day
- Starts serving customers
- Performs before a headliner
- Some links events
- U.S. and British
- Gets the action going
- Formally begins
- Launches, as software
- Plays first, as in cards or at a concert
- Unlocks or unblocks
- Welcomes customers
- Makes a first bid
