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- Shade of green named after a duck
- Shades
- Shakehand or penhold, in table tennis
- "___ Shaker" (1992 Wreckx-N-Effect hit)
- Shakespeare character who declares "I am not what I am"
- Shakespearean "Hush!"
- Shakespearean "soon"
- Shakespearean father of three
- "Shallow" singer Lady ___
- Sham
- Shangri-La
- Shankar who co-composed the score for 1982's "Gandhi"
- Shape for a red-and-white striped Christmas candy
- Shape for a shoelace or pretzel
- Shape formed by the O's in this puzzle
- Shape of a cat with its legs tucked under itself
- Shape of a charm that Simone Biles wears on a necklace
- Shape of a skating rink
- Shapes of Whopper candies
- Shared by us
- Shared fantasies?
- Shark bait
- "Shark Tank" shark Greiner
- Sharp part of a fork
- Sharp quality
- Sharp wind?
- Sharpen
- Sharply clear, as a TV broadcast
- Sharply tug
- Sharpness
- Shaving gel additive
- Shawarma wrap
- She can speak more than 20 languages
- "___ She Lovely" (Stevie Wonder hit)
- She, in French
- Shell in the water
- Sheltered from the wind
- Shindig for the cast and crew after filming is done … with a hint to entering this answer and three others in the grid
- Shingles problem that a set of nails might address
- Shiny material
- Ship that transported the Golden Fleece
- Shirt collar stiffener
- Shivering fit
- Shoe company with an iconic checkerboard design
- Shoe's bottom
- Shoebox number
- Shoofly desserts
- Shoot the breeze
- Short blast from a horn
- Short boxers, e.g.
- Short comedic sketch
- Short cut
- Short hand?
- Short Instagram posting
- Short Instagram video
- Short sidekick?
- Short stroke
- Short video
- Short-lived particle
- Short-term employee, informally
- Shortcut key
- Shorten
- "Should that be true …"
- Show appreciation for a performance
- Show appreciation, in a way
- Show extreme fandom for, in slang
- Show great fondness, in a way
- "Show me a ___ and I'll write you a tragedy": F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "Show me some real effort!"
- Show off, as muscles
- Showbiz "grand slam," familiarly
- Showers with flowers and sweets, say
- Showgirl at the Copacabana, in song
- Shredded
- Shrek, e.g.
- Shy and gentle
- Sicilian landmark
- Sicilian smoker
- Sicilian spewer
- "Sick!"
- Sicken with sweetness
- Side dish eaten with curry
- Side mirrors on a car, anthropomorphically
- Side's length squared, for a square
- Sidewalk adjoiner
- Siete + uno
- [Sigh]
- Sights that make you go "What the …?!"
- Sightseeing excursion
- Sign abbr. meaning "founded in"
- Sign in a theater
- "Sign me up!"
- Sign of decay
- Sign of peace
- Sign of the cross?
- Sign of things to come
- Sign out?
- Sign sought by one reading tea leaves
- Sign to be read
- Sign up for
- Signal to get off the stage, say
- Signs
- Signs of spring
- Sikorsky of aviation fame
- Silence
- Silent film actor Jannings
- Silent sort
- Silent type
- Silk Road locale, largely
- Silk shade
- Silver of the Silver Bulletin
- Silver weapon brandished by one hoping for gold
- Silverstein who wrote "The Giving Tree"
- Silverstein who wrote and illustrated "The Giving Tree"
- Simba's mate in "The Lion King"
- Similar
- Similar (to)
- ___ Simmons, founding member of Kiss
- Simoleon
- Simon ___ (children's game)
- Simone Biles or Tom Brady, acronymically
- Simple coffee brewing method
- Since
- Sine qua non
- Sing like Ella Fitzgerald
- Singer ___ Del Rey
- Singer Amos
- Singer and civil rights activist Simone
- Singer Bareilles
- Singer Braxton
- Singer Chappell
- Singer Chappell with the double-platinum album "The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess"
- Singer Horne
- Singer James
- Singer Kahan with the 2026 #1 album "The Great Divide"
- Singer Lovato
- Singer Paul
- Singer Redding
- Singer Stefani
- Singer Tori
- Singer Vikki with three Grammys
- Singer with the #1 hits "Umbrella" and "Disturbia," familiarly
- Singer/actress Bareilles
- Singer/actress Lady ___
- Singer/composer Bareilles
- Singer/dancer/actress Falana
- Singer/songwriter Kahan with the 2026 #1 album "The Great Divide"
- Singer/songwriter Mitchell
- Singing sister of Aretha
- Single instruction
- Singular, with or without its first letter
- Sir's counterpart
- Sister of Meg, Jo and Amy in "Little Women"
- Sister of Osiris
- Sister to Lex Luthor
- Sister's commitments
- Sisters
- Sit (down) heavily
- Sit, say
- Sitar great Shankar
- Sitar maestro Shankar
- Sitar virtuoso Shankar
- Sitarist Shankar
- Sitarist's composition
- Site for "unique and creative" items
- Site for indie designers
- Site for many stars?
- Site for online bids
- Site of a 1956 international conflict
- Site of a tempting offer
- Site of an 1899-1909 gold rush
- Site of cannonballs and bellyflops
- Site of Pearl Harbor
- Site of some Santa sightings
- Site of the 2002 and 2034 Winter Olympics
- Site with a monument that gets around 7 million ticketed visitors a year
- Sitting on
- Six years, for a U.S. senator
- Size between mini and maxi
- Size opposite of mini-
- Sized up
- Skating locale
- "Skedaddle!"
- Skeleton, say
- Skin opening
- Skin softener
- Skin-care brand with a "cheer"-ful sounding name
- Skip over
- ___ skirt
- Skulk in the shadows
- Skyline haze
- Slam-___ (easy success)
- "Slammin' Sammy" of baseball
- Slang for a huge fan
- Slangy "dude"
- Slanted type: Abbr.
- Slap (at)
- Slavic title
- Sled dog command
- Sleep in the great outdoors, say
- Sleepover challenge
- Sleepy murmur
- Slicer's place
- Slightly
- Slim margin of victory
- Slip (into)
- Slip (out), in a way
- Slip material
- Slip-on shoe .. or something you really don't want in your bathtub
- Slip-on shoe ... or something you don't want in your bathtub
- Slippery
- Slow ___ (response from the unamused)
- Sludge
- Slugger Sammy
- Slurpee alternative
- ___ Slush (frozen fruit drink)
- Slush Puppie alternative
- Slushy brand
- Slushy frozen treat brand
- Sly look, say
- Smack, as flies
- Small amount in the kitchen
- Small band
- Small bit of matter
- Small bit of wind
- Small bit, in Bogotá
- Small bite abroad
- Small bites
- Small bouquet
- Small bug with a strong-sounding name
- Small bug?
- Small detail
- Small keg size
- Small part in a gig
- Small pie
- Small protestation
- Small recipe amts.
- Small smack
- Small squabble
- Small valley
- Small vortex
- Small, mouselike rodent
- Small, say
- Smaller than small
- Smallest relative of an ostrich
- Smart
- Smartphone predecessors, for short
- Smell from a dumpster
- Smell really bad
- Smidgens
- Smile broadly
- "Smile!"
- Smoke, perhaps
- Smokes
- Smokin' hot
- Smoking events, for short
- Smooth out, as a wrinkled shirt
- Smoothie "superfood"
- Smoothie "superfruit"
- Smoothie fruit
- Smurf elder
- Smurf who is more than 500 years old
- ___ Smythe Trophy (award for the N.H.L. playoff M.V.P.)
- Snack brand since 1934
- Snack in a sack in a backpack
- Snackable seaweed
- Snagged
- Snake ___ (dice roll)
- Snake's warning
- Snappy put-down
- Snappy sort, for short?
- Snatch
- Sneak a peek at
- Sneaker brand
- Sneaker brand that popularized cantilever heels
- Sneaker brand whose logo features the "Formstrip"
- Snickering laugh
- Snippet
- Snoopy
- Snow clearer
- Snow day vehicle
- Snow jobs
- Snow-clearing vehicle
- Snowballs, sometimes
- Snowboarder's transport
- Snowman in "Frozen"
- Snug and comfortable
- "So that's how it is"
- So-called "Champagne of Spain"
- So-called "father of the American cartoon"
- So-called "Island of a Thousand Temples"
- So-called "Land of a Million Elephants"
- So-called "servebot" in tennis, essentially
- So-called "Valley Isle"
- [So-o-o funny!]
- Soak slowly
- Soaks (up)
- Soaks up the sun
- SoCal sch.
- SoCal sch. whose teams are the Aztecs
- Soccer great Mia
- Socialite Sedgwick, the supposed inspiration for Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone"
- Society's woes
- Soda brand since 1937
- Soda fountain order
- "Sofa, so good" and such
- Soft leather shoes, for short
- Soft shade
- Soft, sticky treat
- Soft, warm, tingly feeling, in brief
- Sol's sister
- Sol's sister, in Roman myth
- Sol, but not Luna
- Soldier who has failed to report
- "Soldier, stop!"
- Sole
- Solemn vow
- Solo for a soprano
- Solos at a party, say
- Solstice time
- Some
- Some addresses
- Some airport data, in brief
- Some airport listings, for short
- Some altarations?
- Some are said to be "swimming" in this
- Some arm muscles, informally
- Some arthritis
- Some Bavarian cries
- Some boxing wins, in brief
- Some buggies, for short
- Some camera moves
- Some cameras, for short
- Some characters in the Tony winning play "Doubt"
- Some colorful plastic items in the seasonal aisle in the spring
- Some comfy kicks
- Some concert souvenirs
- Some congratulations
- Some creatures in the ocean's "midnight zone"
- Some delivery data, in brief
- Some distance away
- Some DNA sharers
- Some docking helpers
- Some Egyptian reptiles
- Some emergency resources
- Some expensive suits
- Some fan-made literary works, informally
- Some first responders, for short
- Some fragrant gifts
- Some free spots, for short
- Some funerary selections
- Some fuzzy brown boots
- Some gift shop merch
- Some hedge shrubs
- Some heirs
- Some images carved in Egyptian tombs
- Some info on bus. cards
- Some informal wear
- Some Ivy Leaguers
- Some jeans that aren't Wranglers or Levi's
- Some Korean exports
- Some loaves or liquors
- Some messages from a road trip, in brief
- Some midflight announcements, in brief
- Some missed-exit maneuvers, informally
- Some Monopoly properties: Abbr.
- Some natural hairstyles, informally
- Some needle work, in brief
- Some odoriferous gifts
- Some old Disney collectibles
- Some paragraphs in playbills
- Some pearls of wisdom
- Some queens
- Some radar blips
- Some radio messages, in brief
- Some ranch sounds
- Some reds, for short
- Some rounds
- Some rudiments to be learned
- Some savanna groups
- Some stadium shouts
- Some STEM degrees
- Some strenuous athletic events, informally
- Some summers, in brief
- Some supermarkets, in brief
- Some supports
- Some time ago
- Some urban pollution
- Some vipers
- Some ways off
- Some yellow-green sodas, informally
- Some, in León
- Some, in Saltillo
- Someone who might put you on a list
- Something "edited" by CRISPR
- Something a bartender or basketball player might make
- Something a judge shouldn't have
- Something a prospective college student might sign up for
- Something a suspect enters
- Something a workaholic is unlikely to say
- Something at either end of a hammock, often
- Something attached to a rope for a tree swing
- Something big when all the world's a stage?
- Something circled on a calendar
- Something grilled at a tailgating party
- Something hard to face?
- Something I can stand for?
- Something often labeled with the name of a gem or precious metal
- Something read at a table
- Something seized, for short
- Something shown in a sonogram
- Something that can be AirDropped
- Something that might end after "Pencils down!"
- Something that's hatched
- Something that's pitched
- Something to be done
- Something to look for while circling the block
- Something to noodle on
- Something to pitch
- Something to whistle
- Something told with two hands?
- Something typed in this field: YYYY
- Something unwanted that can linger
- Something you can see right through
- Something you click that starts "http"
- Something you might ask for while staying over at a friend's house
- Something you might leave at the front door when entering a house
- Something you should avoid
- Something you trace to draw a Thanksgiving turkey
- Sometimes-raised part of a shoe
- Sommelier's asset
- Son of Adam and Eve
- Son of Isaac and Rebekah
- Son of Seth
- ___ song (farewell performance)
- Song on an album that you always avoid, colloquially
- Song whose titular subject has a "dark brown voice"
- Songwriter Guthrie
- Sonic boom generator?
- Sonic system
- Sonic the Hedgehog company
- Soon, in poems
- Soon, to Shakespeare
- "___ soon?"
- Soothing succulent
- Sorcerer
- Sorcerer's stick
- Sore
- "Sorry ... hard pass"
- "Sorry about that!"
- "Sorry to say …"
- "Sorry, I don't think so"
- "Sorry, that's incorrect"
- Sort
- Sort who's too good for everyone else
- Sorts
- Sotto ___
- Soul legend Redding
- Sound at the beginning and end of a meditation, perhaps
- Sound during a cat fight
- Sound effect in a long hallway
- Sound from a delighted crowd
- Sound from a fly swatter
- Sound from a monitor
- Sound from a ragdoll
- Sound from fans
- Sound from Peppa of kids' TV
- Sound heard during cold season
- Sound in a cave
- Sound in a cavernous empty room
- Sound like heaven
- Sound made by a toaster?
- Sound made by many fans
- Sound of a horse's hoof
- Sound of a stone landing in a pool
- Sound of an approaching subway train
- Sound of an online message
- Sound of disappearance
- Sound of disapproval
- Sound the alarm
- Sound wave amplifiers
- Sounded, as a doorbell
- Sounds from a doggy daycare
- Sounds from fans
- Sounds from pigeons
- Sounds from un estadio
- "Sounds good!"
- "Sounds like a plan!"
- Sounds of disapproval
- Sounds of inspiration
- Source of a deal with The Devil?
- Source of fragrant cones
- Source of fries, informally
- Source of linseed oil
- Source of many an explosive news story
- Source of some natural dyes and sugars
- Source of the word "tuk-tuk" used for a motorized rickshaw
- Source of umami in Japanese cuisine
- Sources of distress
- Sources of lead or gold
- Sources of lines for a reading, maybe
- Sources of quick $$$
- South American monkey with a reduplicative name
- South Asian dress
- "South Park" co-creator Parker
- Southern California city with a Spanish name
- Southern collective?
- Southern cornbread
- Southwest people whose name means "peaceful"
- Southwestern wolf
- Souvenirs fired from hand-held cannons
- Soybeans or rice
- Spa service on the toes, in brief
- Spa service, in brief
- Space
- Space race cosmonaut Gagarin
- Space to develop as a person?
- Spaces, as between teeth
- Spam might fill them
- Spanish "she"
- Spanish ___, plant that hangs from cypress trees
- Spanish cat
- Spanish direction
- Spanish for "house"
- Spanish for "other"
- Spanish for "this"
- Spanish for "wealthy"
- Spanish love
- Spanish muralist José María ___
- Spanish name found in "business"
- Spanish sparkling wine
- Spanish sweetheart
- Spanner of 11 time zones
- Spanx founder Blakely
- Spare things?
- "Spare" things at a barbecue
- Sparkling wine of Italy, familiarly
- Sparrows : cheeps :: crows : ___
- "Spartacus" or "Gladiator"
- Speak at the top of one's lungs
- Speak while looking up, perhaps
- Speaker of the line "… your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs"
- Spec
- Speck
- Speck in the sea
- Spectacle
- Speech full of invective
- Speech therapist's target
- Speedy
- Spellbinds
- Spend a few nights in the woods, perhaps
- Sphere
- Spicy cuisine
- Spies
- Spilled the beans
- Spin
- Spinks who defeated Muhammad Ali
- Spirit
- Spiritual leader at a mosque
- Spiritual teacher in Tibet
- "Splendid" things in a Khaled Hosseini title
- Split from suddenly, in a way
- Split in two
- Spoils
- Spoken
- Spongy ball material
- Spongy wetlands
- Spoonful of medicine, maybe
- Sporcle offering
- Spore-producing plant
- Sport on a horse
- Sport whose athletes wear topknots
- Sport with throws
- Sporting blade
- Sporting blades
- Sporting flats, say
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