Crossword puzzle clue "tense beginning"

Past-tense verb that is the same as its present-tense form minus the fourth and fifth letters

___ tense (verb tense for "walked" and "sang")

Tense beginning?

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's ___ ..." (Semisonic)

"In the beginning" is its beginning

"I'm the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of the end, and the end of every place ..."

Person who is extremely timid or tense

Have the same tense, e.g.