AHEAD

Better than up-to-date

• 1984 Amy Grant album Straight ___

• A few strokes up

• A good way to leave Vegas

• At the front

• Be in the lead

• Before

• Best way to leave Vegas?

• Chasing no one

• Closer to the finish line

• Closer to victory

• Coming

• Coming up

• Currently first

• Dead ___ ('96 Stephanie Zimbalist film)

• Dead ___ (Stephanie Zimbalist 1996)

• Directly in front

• Down the road

• Each

• Favored by pollsters

• First

• For the future

• Forward

• Front-running

• Full steam ___!

• Further along

• Good place to be in a race

• Good place to get?

• Good way to leave Vegas

• Great way to leave Vegas

• Having more gains than losses

• Having the most points

• How to Get ___ in Advertising (1989)

• In advance

• In first

• In first place

• In front

• In front (of)

• In front of or leader?

• In the black

• In the first place?

• In the future

• In the lead

• In the offing

• In the van

• It's good to get there

• It's often straight?

• Later, on a clock

• Leading

• Leading in the game

• Leading in the polls

• Leading man in a commercial (5)

• Leading the pack

• Like the frontrunner

• Like the guy in front

• Like the hare, for most of the race

• Like the leader of the pack

• Man occupies a spot in front (5)

• Not behind

• Off in the distance

• On the horizon

• On top

• Oncoming

• One way to plan

• One way to set a clock

• Onward

• Out front

• Out in front

• Per person

• Road-sign word

• Setting the pace

• Showing the way

• Spring ___,...

• Still to come

• That man cut into a spot in front (5)

• the road

• The Road ___ (Bill Gates book)

• The Road ___ by Bill Gates

• To be encountered

• To come

• To the fore

• Tough way to leave Vegas

• Towards the future

• Up on the count

• Up there

• Up, in a way

• What most try to get

• Where a winner comes out

• Winning

• Winning (an election)

• Winning the game

• Winning, for now

• Winning, for the moment

• With more runs than the other team

• Yet to come

• Yet to occur

• You go ___