Possible Clues:

• Deal won’t, oddly, start
• Dishwashing brand used to clean animals after oil spills
• Start doing art with numbers, first of all
• Group which had a 1970 hit with Knock Three Times
• __ Butler, Labour MP for Brent Central
• Rooster's cue
• Early morning
• Tanya Tucker "Delta ___"
• Republican eliminated in tense beginning
• 'The ___ of Man' (opening sequence in '2001: A Space Odyssey')