There is a total of 136549 clues beginning with a
- Avoided
 - Avoided a bogey
 - Avoided a commitment
 - Avoided a controversial topic
 - Avoided a dragnet
 - Avoided a family affair, perhaps
 - Avoided a hunger strike
 - Avoided a pothole, perhaps
 - Avoided a problem
 - Avoided a tag at
 - Avoided a tag, in a way
 - Avoided a tag, maybe
 - Avoided a tag, perhaps
 - Avoided a trial
 - Avoided acting
 - Avoided an accident, in a way
 - Avoided an accident, maybe
 - Avoided an answer
 - Avoided attention
 - Avoided bloodshed
 - Avoided bloodshed, in a way
 - Avoided bogey
 - Avoided bogey, in golf
 - Avoided by Mrs Sprat
 - Avoided capture
 - Avoided certain foods
 - Avoided commitment
 - Avoided committing oneself
 - Avoided court
 - Avoided defeat heroically
 - Avoided doing dishes
 - Avoided doing dishes?
 - Avoided elimination in musical chairs
 - Avoided extinction, perhaps
 - Avoided flunking
 - Avoided honesty
 - Avoided in protest
 - Avoided mentioning
 - Avoided on the job
 - Avoided phoniness
 - Avoided punishment
 - Avoided restaurants
 - Avoided something controversial
 - Avoided the 10-Down, say
 - Avoided the cops
 - Avoided the maƮtre d'
 - Avoided the tag
 - Avoided traffic, perhaps
 - Avoided trans fats and refined sugars, say
 - Avoided unhappy consequences
 - Avoided walking or taking public transportation, in Manhattan
 - Avoided wallflower status
 - Avoided wet hair in a pool
 - Avoided work, in a way
 - Avoided, as taxes
 - Avoided
 - Avoider of animal products
 - Avoider of charges?
 - Avoider of meat products
 - Avoider of work
 - Avoider's distance?
 - Avoiders on the road
 - Avoiders
 - Avoiding
 - Avoiding a bogey
 - Avoiding a clash
 - Avoiding a pothole, perhaps
 - Avoiding alcohol
 - Avoiding an engagement, maybe
 - Avoiding arrest
 - Avoiding black cats and sidewalk cracks?
 - Avoiding blows?
 - Avoiding buoys
 - Avoiding combat
 - Avoiding deployment, perhaps
 - Avoiding direct reply
 - Avoiding duties?
 - Avoiding guard duty, in a way
 - Avoiding gusts
 - Avoiding harm
 - Avoiding interest charges
 - Avoiding off-topic posting, say
 - Avoiding publicity
 - Avoiding punishment, perhaps
 - Avoiding responsibility, with "out of"
 - Avoiding spitballs, say
 - Avoiding starch, say
 - Avoiding the draft?
 - Avoiding the outdoors
 - Avoiding the press
 - Avoiding the risk that
 - Avoiding the rush, say
 - Avoiding the spotlight
 - Avoiding the sun, probably
 - Avoiding the wind
 - Avoiding, as a vice
 - Avoiding, as an issue
 - Avoiding, with "away"
 - Avoids
 - Avoids "It"