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It starts when the overture's over
Answer for the clue "It starts when the overture's over ", 4 letters:
acti
Alternative clues for the word acti
- When "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" is heard in "Carousel"
- Early CliffsNotes subheading
- Musical beginning
- When Stanley cries "Hey, Stella!" in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
- Opera opener
- Shakespearean play part
- When Romeo spies Juliet
- Whence "Nothing will come of nothing" in "King Lear"
- Onset of a plot
- When Valjean adopts Cosette
Usage examples of acti.
As for boasting of our past, the laudator temporis acti makes but a poor figure in our time.
It is useless to be always looking back to be a laudator temporis acti se puero is placed by the wise and genial Horace to the discredit and not to the credit of old age.