The first 25% runs from A through to Dickins - though, oddly, the very first entry is for the 1st Eltham Scouts.
Some failed to find its anagram A-LIST, which is under the very first entry in Chambers as a compound of A. This rich Christmas pudding of a puzzle seems to have been generally popular, if on the tough side, though I guess that the placing and thus the recognition of the different clue types was not too difficult.
For example, one of the very first entries in Skeat is for the letter A, which begins: "...(1) adown; (2) afoot; (3) along; (4) arise; (5) achieve; (6) avert; (7) amend; (8) alas; (9) abyss... ...... Further in the entry, Skeat writes: "These prefixes are discussed at greater length under the headings Of, On, Along, Arise...Alas, Aware, Avast..."....
From her very first entry, a magically reflective tiny adagio amid the surrounding opening movement allegro, the refinement of Jansen's silvery tone drew the audience into a reading characterised by great intimacy, with Jurowski now reinvented as a most sensitive accompanist.
"More and more I believe in these journals," she confesses in her very first entry.
In addition to attracting pre-ENCDCs into the foregut, long-range GDNF signals might also have an important role during the entry of the very first ENCDCs into the colon at embryonic day 11 in the mouse.
They obstruct the very first step in HIV-1 infection (ie, entry into the target cell), rather than blocking a viral event that occurs after the establishment of the proviral DNA into the cellular genome.
From the very first day of its public launch, millions of people signed up for the service, wanting entry into Google's newest product.
Click the very first link.
Building "conventionally written songs" (i.e. narrational balladry) into electronic tracks is an easier task when the music is breaks-based (pop-esque drum 'n' bass's very first chart entry, Baby D's 'Let Me Be Your Fantasy' is a fine example), and even the jagged masonry of half-step dubstep was receptive to pop re-structuring for a time (see Nero's number one hit 'Guilt').
The picture with the first entry shows Armistead Maupin; the one with the seventh entry shows Richard Ben Cramer.
