3-letter crossword answers: clues S to U

6,752 NYT Crossword and Mini clues in our archive have a 3-letter answer. This page lists clues S to U (page 11 of 12). The clue text is shown and the answer is not. Open a clue for its length, a first-letter hint and then the answer.

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• Suffix with fail or forfeit
• Suffix with front or cash
• Suffix with legal
• Suffix with lemon or orange
• Suffix with Manhattan or Brooklyn
• Suffix with morph-
• Suffix with north, south, east or west
• Suffix with peace but not war
• Suffix with serpent
• Suffix with urban
• Suffix with Vietnam and Senegal
• Sugar suffix
• Suggestion, informally
• Suitable, as a unit in a bldg.?
• Sully
• Summer cooler
• Summer coolers, for short … or a hint to the answers to the starred clues
• Summer hours in L.A.
• Summer hours in N.Y.C.
• Summer hrs. in N.Y.C.
• Summer in France
• Summer mo.
• Summer on the Riviera
• Summer setting in S.F.
• Summer setting in Somerset, in brief
• Sun Devils' sch.
• Sun, in Spanish
• Sunbeam
• Sunburned, perhaps
• "Sup!"
• Super Bowl LVI winner
• Super Mario Bros. platform
• Super-keen
• Super-trendy
• Superlative ending
• Superlative suffix
• Supermarket franchise inits.
• Supermodel Alek
• Supernatural ability, for short
• Support while "en pointe"
• Supporting article?
• Supportive garment
• Supportive undergarment
• "___ supuesto!" ("Of course!," in Spanish)
• "Sure thing!"
• Surfboard stabilizer
• Surgery sites, for short
• Surgery sites, in brief
• Sushi topper
• Sustainability prefix
• Sustainable start?
• Swabbie's tool
• Sweet potato
• Sweetie
• Sweetie, to Brits
• Sweetwater 420 is a "pale" one
• Swiatek who has won the U.S. Open, French Open and Wimbledon
• Swiffer WetJet, e.g.
• Swim-bike-run race, for short
• Swimmer in a Japanese garden
• Swinger's goal, perhaps
• Swiss peak
• Sword's alternative
• Syllable doubled after "fiddle"
• Syllable of censure
• Syllables of hesitation
• Symbol for a stop on a subway map
• Symbol for fair weather in a forecast
• Symbol for the ratio of a circle's circumference to its radius
• Symbol in the night sky over Gotham
• Symbol of divine authority in hieroglyphics
• Symbol of mass density
• Symbol of protection
• Symbol of wisdom
• Symbol on an Oregon license plate
• Sí, across the Pyrenees
• T(G)IF
• T-shaped birth control insert
• T-shirt or blouse
• T-Swift, by another nickname
• "Ta-ta!"
• "Ta-ta," in a text
• Tabard ___, locale in "The Canterbury Tales"
• Tac preceder
• ___-tac-toe
• Tagging symbols
• Tahoe runner
• ___ tai
• ___ tai (cocktail)
• Tai chi accessory
• Tail or finger motion
• Tail-less primate
• Tailor's line
• Take a chair
• Take a load off
• Take a quick turn
• Take advantage of
• Take an ax to
• Take care of the tab
• Take out, in a way
• Take to the sky
• ___ talk
• Talk at length
• Tallahassee sch.
• Tally: Abbr.
• Tanner's letters
• Target of an annual vaccine
• "Tasty!"
• Tattletale
• Tattoos, informally
• Tavern
• Tax pro
• Taxi
• ___ Taylor (fashion retailer)
• Taylor Swift's "___ Song"
• "Te ___" ("I love you," in Spanish)
• "Te ___" (Spanish "I love you")
• "___ Te Ching"
• Teacher for a day
• Teacher's pest
• ___ team
• Team for Olympians Simone Biles and Mikaela Shiffrin
• Tech co. that was integral to early computer science
• Tech company exec
• Tech giant founded in 1911
• Tech mogul Altman
• Tech used for many of the ping-pong scenes in "Marty Supreme"
• ___ Technica (news site)
• "Tee" follower
• Tee-___ (giggle)
• Teeny-tiny
• Tegan vis-à-vis Sara, in pop's Tegan and Sara
• Telepathy, e.g.
• Tell a tall tale
• Étendue bleue
• Tennis call
• Tennis duo?
• Term of affection in the U.K.
• Terminus of one BART line, in brief
• Tesla or Toyota
• Teslas and Rivians, for short
• Teslas, e.g., for short
• Test for a future Ph.D.
• Test for fifth-year Hogwarts students
• Test for future Ph.D.s
• Test for M.A. seekers
• Test not offered in high school, for short
• Test room
• Test the water?
• Tetra- minus one
• Texas air hub, for short
• Text initialism that's the name of a 2010 Usher hit
• Texter's "ciao"
• Texter's "Hang on a sec"
• Texter's "I can't even"
• Texter's "I think ..."
• Texter's "If you ask me …"
• Texter's "just a sec"
• Texter's "Not sure"
• Texter's "Wow ... just wow"
• Texter's "Wow!"
• Texter's affectionate sign-off
• Texter's caveat
• Texter's declaration of affection
• Texter's qualifier
• Texter's ta-ta
• Texting equivalent of a shrug
• Texting format, for short
• Texting format, in brief
• Texting inits.
• "Thanks a ___!" (informal appreciation)
• "Thanks, Captain Obvious!"
• Thanos, to the Avengers
• That girl
• "That hurts!"
• "That is … I mean …"
• That lady
• [That makes me so mad!]
• "That means ___!"
• That ship
• "That ship ___ sailed"
• "That sounds awful!"
• "That stinks!"
• [That was a good one]
• "That way ..."
• That's a me problem
• "That's awful!"
• "That's correct!"
• "That's incredible!"
• "That's infuriating!"
• "That's just the worst"
• "That's obvious!"
• "That's on me," in slangy shorthand
• "That's so sweet!" reactions
• "That's terrible!"
• That's the kicker!
• "That's the spot!"
• That, in Spain
• That, in Spanish
• The "/" in km/h
• The "A" of G.P.A.: Abbr.
• The "A" of GOAT
• The "F" of FWIW
• The "G" in L.G.B.T.
• The "G" of LGBTQ+
• The "I" of T.G.I.F.
• The "I" of TGIF
• The "N" of NGO
• The "one" of a one-two
• The "p" of m.p.h.
• The "p" of r.p.m.
• The "S" of E.S.T.: Abbr.
• The "S" of GPS: Abbr.
• The "S" of H.S.: Abbr.
• The "S" of macOS: Abbr.
• The "S" of S.F.
• The 1900s, e.g.: Abbr.
• The 2% in 2% milk
• The 2025 Super Bowl champion Eagles, on scoreboards
• The : English :: ___ : French
• "The ___ is up!"
• "The ___ of Pooh"
• "The ___ of Pooh" (1982 best seller)
• "The ___" (final track listed on the original "Abbey Road")
• "The Addams Family" member voiced by Snoop Dogg in 2019
• "The Bachelor" network
• The banned ingredient Red No. 3, e.g.
• "The Bear" actress Edebiri
• The Beatles' "___ Blues"
• The Beatles' "___ Came in Through the Bathroom Window"
• "The Bells" poet
• The Big Crunch, theoretically, for our universe
• "The Brain - is wider than the ___" (Emily Dickinson poem)
• "The Brain - is wider than the ___": Dickinson
• The British throne?
• The Cardinals, on scoreboards
• The Cards, on scoreboards
• "The Chronic" rapper, informally
• The class of '26, at the beginning of '26
• The Cowboys of the N.C.A.A.
• "The Daily" publisher: Abbr.
• "The Deer Hunter" setting, in brief
• "The Dove and the ___" (Aesop fable)
• The Dream Team
• The F.D.A. approved a form of this to treat anxiety in 2024, for short
• The Falcons, on a scoreboard
• The Falcons, on scoreboards
• The first "C" of Vietnam's H.C.M.C.
• The first "T" in TNT
• The first "T" of TNT
• The flying fox is a type of one
• "The Fresh Prince of ___-Air"
• "The Good Wife" figure: Abbr.
• The Horned Frogs of Ft. Worth
• The Hornets, on scoreboards
• The Jazz, on sports tickers
• "The Life of a Showgirl," for Taylor Swift
• "The Magicians" novelist Grossman
• The Marlins, on scoreboards
• "The Matrix" character
• "The Matrix" character whose name, aptly, is an anagram of ONE
• The N.F.L.'s Giants, on scoreboards
• "The Naked ___"
• The Notorious ___ (longtime Supreme Court nickname)
• The Orioles, on a scoreboard
• "The Penguin" airer
• The present
• "The pretty worm of Nilus," per Shakespeare's Cleopatra
• "The Rise of Skywalker" role
• The Science Kid, in children's television
• "___ the season …"
• The second one on the Statue of Liberty is longer than its first one
• "The Simpsons" character ___ Nahasapeemapetilon
• "The Simpsons" collectible
• "The Situation Room" airer
• "The Sopranos" airer
• "The Spanish Tragedy" playwright Thomas
• The stuff of life
• The sun
• "The Tell-Tale Heart" author
• "The Tell-Tale Heart" writer
• The third
• The Three Kingdoms in Chinese history, e.g.
• The time of one's life?
• The W.N.B.A.'s Dream, on scoreboards
• The Who's "Love, Reign ___ Me"
• The Wildcats of the Big 12 Conf.
• The word "decimate" initially meant to reduce something by a factor of this
• The Yankees, on scoreboards
• The Yoko of "Dear Yoko"
• (The) OK
• Theater hit's inits.
• [Their typo, not mine!]
• "Then it was well with me, in days ___ I was born": Housman
• "There you ___!"
• "There's ___ in 'team,' but there is one in 'win'"
• There's a Black, White and Red one
• "There's a cockroach!"
• "There, there" accompanier
• Thesaurus listing: Abbr.
• They got the votes
• They might ask you to remove your shoes, for short
• They might be targeted
• They travel through tubes
• They wave their wands so you can fly, for short
• They're cast in November
• They're often depicted with green skin, for short
• They're parked in parks
• "Thick ___ Brick" (1972 Jethro Tull album)
• Thick roll of cash
• "Things ___ looking up!"
• Things eliminated with YouTube Premium
• Things entered in a sudoku grid: Abbr.
• Things often included with a free subscription
• Things that come with waffles?
• Things that could happen
• Things traveling through fallopian tubes
• "This American Life" host Glass
• This clue number
• (This clue number x 2) + 2
• This clue number ÷ 9
• This clue's number, for the youngest U.S. president
• "This is terrible!"
• This is the way: Abbr.
• "This Is your brain on drugs," e.g., for short
• "This means ___!"
• "This Old House" network
• Thoroughly enjoyed, with "up"
• Thoroughly evaluate
• Those opposed
• "Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; ___ for the arrow that flieth by day": Psalms
• "___ thoughts?"
• Three unnamed things, in shorthand
• Three-way intersection
• Three: Prefix
• Threshold
• Thrilla in Manila boxer
• Through
• Throw, for instance
• Throw, maybe
• Thru
• Thumbnail, maybe
• Thunder setting, in brief
• Thurman of "Pulp Fiction"
• Tic-tac-toe win
• Ticker symbol for Harley-Davidson on the N.Y.S.E., appropriately
• Ticker tape?: Abbr.
• Tidy updo, say
• Tie one on at dinner
• Tie-breaking periods, for short
• Tie-dyed bit of attire, often
• ___ tight
• Tik___
• TikTok star Addison ___
• Tilling aid
• Time for Sat. prep?
• Time of one's life, in modern slang
• Time piece?
• Tin Man's need
• Tina of "Mean Girls"
• Tina who hosted the debut of "Saturday Night Live UK"
• Tint
• Tiny "farmer"
• Tiny amount
• Tiny drink
• Tiny hill dweller
• Tiny projectile in a food fight
• Tiny slug?
• Tiny terror
• Tire inflation meas.
• Tire meas.
• Tit for ___
• Title for a certain union member?
• Title for a guru
• Title for a holy person
• Title for a J.D.
• Title for a married woman
• Title for Doubtfire, Fields or Maisel
• Title for M.L.K. Jr.
• Title of a #1 Rihanna song and #1 SZA album
• Title role for Paul Newman, 1963
• Title that becomes loftier when an E is added
• Tizzy
• To and ___
• To be, in Barcelona
• "To be," in Iberia
• "To be," in Tijuana
• To cop
• "___ to Go!," 2024 Chappell Roan hit sometimes compared to the Village People's "Y.M.C.A."
• "___ to Joy"
• ___ to pay (modern prompt)
• To some extent
• To the ___ degree
• "___ to the West Wind"
• To's opposite
• To, informally
• Tobiko or masago
• ___ Today
• Today preceder
• Toddler's go-to question
• Toeholds
• Tofu base
• ___Tok
• "Told you!"
• Tolkien monster
• Tolkien tree creature
• Tolkien's Treebeard, for one
• Toll
• "Tom Lake" novelist Patchett
• Tombstone letters
• Tone
• Tonsil doc
• Tony winner Hagen
• Tony-winning actress Stroker
• Took a chair
• Took a load off
• Took in
• Took the helm
• Tool for a firefighter or lumberjack
• Tool for a lumberjack
• Tool for Paul Bunyan
• Tool for tracing family trees
• Tool with a point
• Tool with teeth
• Toondom's Olive
• Toothpaste tube topper
• Toothpaste type
• ___-top (hairstyle associated with the Beatles)
• Top banana, for short
• Top color in a rainbow
• "Top Gear" channel
• Top halves of centaurs
• Top of an org. chart
• Top of the hour?
• Top option
• Top starter
• Top to accompany shorts
• Top-left PC key
• Toronto's province: Abbr.
• Torque symbol, in physics
• Toss up?
• Tosses out of a competition, informally
• Total
• Total dump
• Total jerk
• Totally
• "Totally awesome!"
• Totally played out
• "Totally tubular!"
• "Totes adorbs!"
• Touch
• Tough H.S. classes
• Tour leader
• Tour org.
• Tour overseer, for short
• "Tout à fait!"
• ___ tov (Jewish festival)
• Toward the back of the boat
• Tower in the water
• Towering creature in "The Two Towers"
• Toy popularized by Queen Victoria, familiarly
• "Toy Story" antagonist
• Track unit
• ___ trading
• Traditional Japanese drama
• Traditional parka material
• Traffic increases it, for short
• Traffic snarl
• Trail Blazers' grp.
• Transcript fig.
• Trap neighbor
• Travel by air
• Treasure map markings
• Treatment for a bruise
• Treatment for a sprained ankle
• Tree alongside a ski run
• Tree of life, in Norse mythology
• Tree whose "slippery" variety has medicinal bark
• Tree whose wood is used for telephone poles
• *Trendy
• Trent Reznor's rock band, to fans
• Triage sites, for short
• Tribal home, maybe, informally
• Tribulation
• Trick
• Tricked
• Tricks
• Trident-shaped letter
• Tried for office
• Trifling amount
• Trifling bit
• Trig fig.
• Trig function that can output every real number
• Trip strip
• Trippy stuff
• Trireme implement
• Trireme tool
• Trisolarans in "The Three-Body Problem," e.g., informally
• Triumphant cry
• Trivia night locale
• Trivia question: Has Brazil appeared at every World Cup? Answer: ___!
• Trojan's sch.
• Trophy
• Trouble ___
• Troupe for troops, in brief
• "___ Troyens" (five-hour French opera)
• Trucker's measure
• Truckload
• ___ Trung Thu, harvest festival in Southeast Asia
• Trunk part
• Trust eroder
• Tsp. or tbsp.
• "Tubular!"
• Tumbler's surface
• Tummy muscles
• Tuna often served tartare
• Tuna variety
• Tuna variety often used in sashimi
• Turf ___ (football injury)
• Turn to mush, maybe
• ___ Turner, antislavery rebel
• TV channel that has received a Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech
• TV drama whose past guest stars have included Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber
• TV E.T.
• TV freebie of a sort
• TV medical drama settings, in brief
• TV room
• TV's "___ Lasso"
• Twist targets, informally
• Twisted
• Twisty curve
• Two in a fork?: Abbr.
• Two in Tijuana
• Two lengths of a pool
• Two peas ___ pod
• Two, for many a putt-putt hole
• Type of medical network, for short
• Typical univ. applicants
• U.F.O. occupants, in brief
• U.K. : H.M.R.C. :: U.S.A. : ___
• U.K. home
• U.K. military branch
• U.K. thank-yous
• U.N.C.'s athletic org.
• U.S. : reps :: Canada : ___
• U.S. medical research agcy.
• U.S. medical research org.
• U2 producer Brian
• Uber alternative
• Uber ride info, informally
• "Ugly Betty" actress Ortiz
• "Uh-huh!"
• "Uhh …," to Brits
• Ump's call
• Umpire's clenched-fist call
• Uncle ___
• Uncle, in Spanish
• Uncle, in Uruguay
• Unconscious mannerism
• Unconventional
• Under the weather
• Undercover agent
• Understand

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