There is a total of 136165 clues beginning with a
- Avoid being overdue, in a way
- Avoid being seen
- Avoid being shut out
- Avoid being tempted
- Avoid booze
- Avoid boredom, say
- Avoid burning, perhaps
- Avoid buying
- Avoid by cunning
- Avoid by dexterity
- Avoid by going around
- Avoid by stratagem
- Avoid cancellation
- Avoid captivity
- Avoid capture
- Avoid capture by
- Avoid carefully
- Avoid cat litters?
- Avoid caviar?
- Avoid charges
- Avoid cheeseburgers, among other things
- Avoid choosing sides
- Avoid cleverly
- Avoid commitment
- Avoid commitments
- Avoid committing
- Avoid conformity
- Avoid consistently
- Avoid contact with
- Avoid cooked foods
- Avoid cooking, in a way
- Avoid crossing
- Avoid danger like an ostrich?
- Avoid dealing with
- Avoid deftly
- Avoid deliberately
- Avoid detection
- Avoid diner dishes?
- Avoid discovery
- Avoid dishes, in a way
- Avoid disturbing
- Avoid doing
- Avoid dropping off
- Avoid elimination
- Avoid elimination in musical chairs
- Avoid elimination, or a hint to 17-, 31- and 46-Across
- Avoid embarrassment
- Avoid ending
- Avoid eviction
- Avoid extinction
- Avoid extinction, say
- Avoid facts
- Avoid failing
- Avoid finishing a sentence
- Avoid finishing a sentence?
- Avoid flunking
- Avoid formal nuptials
- Avoid free-fall
- Avoid getting an F, possibly
- Avoid getting beaned in an inept manner?
- Avoid getting fired
- Avoid getting fired, maybe
- Avoid getting hit in the ring
- Avoid getting into deep water?
- Avoid getting the ax?
- Avoid giving a direct reply
- Avoid giving in
- Avoid going postal come April 15th?
- Avoid goodbyes
- Avoid guile
- Avoid habitually
- Avoid having an arranged marriage, maybe
- Avoid having to wait for a table, maybe
- Avoid honesty
- Avoid humiliation
- Avoid ignorance
- Avoid inclines?
- Avoid incoming fire
- Avoid intentionally
- Avoid jargon
- Avoid leaving a hole
- Avoid like the plague
- Avoid litigation
- Avoid major planning, in a way
- Avoid making a decision
- Avoid making a final decision
- Avoid making changes
- Avoid making one's position clear
- Avoid meeting issues
- Avoid mentioning
- Avoid moguls?
- Avoid one's duty
- Avoid or dodge
- Avoid paying for, as an event
- Avoid paying overdue fees
- Avoid perishing?
- Avoid President Clinton?
- Avoid puddles, say
- Avoid punches