Answer: HEADSTART
HEADSTART is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 22 times.
Referring Clues:
- Advantage, of a sort
 - Racer's edge
 - What each word in 18-, 20-, 34- and 51-Across could be considered
 - Dessert for Edith?
 - Early education program
 - School readiness program and a hint to this puzzle's theme
 - Unfair advantage (and a hint to 17-, 28-, and 49-Across)
 - Early edge
 - Early advantage
 - Certain unfair advantage
 - What a slow person may need
 - Racer's edge, or the ends of 17-, 23-, 39- and 49-Across, unflatteringly
 - What a slow runner may need
 - Initial advantage
 - Advantage at the outset
 - Competitive advantage
 - Advantageous position
 - Program since 1965
 - Racer's advantage ... and what each part of the answers to starred clues can be
 - Advantage in a race, or what each starred answer has?
 - Racer's advantage
 - Advantage in a race, and what can be found in 16-, 33-, or 40-Across
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - May 19, 2025
 - USA Today - September 22, 2020
 - Universal - August 08, 2020
 - LA Times - August 21, 2018
 - USA Today - April 30, 2015
 - USA Today - April 27, 2011
 - King Syndicate - Premier Sunday - March 13, 2011
 - LA Times - March 08, 2011
 - New York Times - September 14, 2010
 - Netword - July 26, 2009
 - Washington Post - April 14, 2009
 - Netword - November 13, 2008
 - Washington Post - June 18, 2008
 - King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 16, 2008
 - Universal - March 21, 2008
 - New York Times - January 03, 2006
 - King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 16, 2004
 - Washington Post - August 29, 2004
 - New York Times - May 30, 2003
 - New York Times - March 28, 2003
 
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