
Every clue in this challenge points toward a single idea: start.
Some answers may hint at beginnings, launches, openings, kickoffs, first steps, or fresh starts. Others may be sneakier — hiding the concept in plain sight.
Your mission: follow the trail of missing vowels and uncover the words or expressions connected to the many ways we ‘start’ something.
The words listed below have a meaning related to "start." But as you have probably noticed, all the vowels have been removed.
So, for example, begin would be BGN...so from the STRT, let's BGN

= 1. CMMNCMNT
2. RGN
3. NTTN
4. DWN
= 5. KCKFF
6. PNNG
7. TST
8. LPH
9. BW
= 10. CNTDWN
= 11. DWNNG
= 12. DRVTN
= 13. MBRKTN
= 14. FNDTN
15. NGRTN
16. BRTH
= 17. NCPTN
18. LVNG
19. NST
20. SRC
21. SPRNG
= 22. TKFF
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