Possible Clues:

• Begins
• 'Gets going to eat around the sweets (6,2)'
• Jumps to one's feet as the engine begins
• 'Leaps to one's feet and gets the engine going (6,2)'
• Little street rats gets going
• Strats, perhaps, gets going like this
• Begins with the sour puss standing outside
• How the St. gets the rats running
• Commence to eat and gets the engine going
• Establishes