Possible Clues:

• Starting point or cause
• Birth
• A starter as the alternative to a single drink
• You might have this or a single drink for a starter
• The saint was in no hurry to have behaved like a revolutionary
• Belfast cheque returned to source
• Beginning to fix up home after end of tornado
• Nothing to fix at home birth
• One for a start or one drink
• That's enough to give one for a starter, or one drink