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Just ask yourself, right now why is the clock stopped. If the only reason you can come up with is administrative (penalty enforcement, moving the chains, inadvertant whistle etc) then start it up on the ready. If it is stopped because the last play ended out of bounds or a forward pass was incomplte, or the ball was dead behind a goal line, then start it up on the snap.
In otherwords, if the action that caused the down to end also caused the clock to stop then start it on the snap, if the clock would have kept running had there been no foul, then start it on the ready.
Whether the clock was running or not prior to the last legal snap has no bearing on whether it will be running or stopped prior to the next snap.
On a free kick the clock always starts the same way.
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