Related Clues:

• Ask for a hand?
• It's a starter
• Wager
• Jerome Kern's '___ Song'
• Put in the pot
• ___ Lady of ...
• Not yours alone
• Start to date?
• Stud fee?
• Prepay, with 'up'
• A few chips, perhaps
• ___ meridiem
• Royal possessive
• Punt
• Opening stake