The get-go

As a detective trying to solve the mystery of the crossword clue ‘The get-go‘, my first step was to consider possible words or phrases that could fit within the given character limit. My intuition told me that the answer was most likely to be a phrase that referred to the beginning or starting point of something. With this in mind, I started thinking of idiomatic expressions that conveyed this idea. ‘From scratch‘, ‘zero hour‘ and ‘jumping off point‘ all came to mind, but none of them quite fit the given number of squares in the crossword puzzle.

Then it was when I realized that it was the word ‘square’ in the phrase ‘square one‘. The use of ‘square‘ could be hinting at the idea of a starting point or foundation, which is often associated with structures having right angles, as in squares. The word ‘one‘ could be interpreted as meaning a single point of origin, which reinforced my theory.

As I considered the phrase ‘square one‘, it clicked that it fit perfectly with the character limit and conveyed the message of the clue precisely. The phrase ‘square one‘ always refers to where one starts or begins something anew, and therefore, it makes sense as the answer to ‘The get-go‘ crossword clue. There’s a sense of finality to it as well – if you go back to square one, you have to start again from scratch. The journey to solving the mystery had reached its destination, and ‘square one‘ was the clear answer.