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- Small storage units
- Small yellow bowties, say
- Small, colorful fish that's popular in aquariums
- Small-plate servings
- Smart ___ (wise guy)
- Smart set
- Smartphone video effect
- Smash hit
- Smell, e.g.
- Smelling things?
- Smooth and shiny
- Smooth transition
- Smoothed over, in a way
- Smooths
- Smooths (out)
- Smooths, in a way
- Snack similar to a gordita
- Snail's trail
- Snake that sounds like it would be good at math?
- Snap
- Snap (off)
- Snap, crackle or pop
- Snatching sound, in the comics
- Sneak around
- Sneeze sound
- Snooped (around)
- Snow/rain combo
- Snub
- "So frustrating!"
- [So heavy!]
- "So long, amigo"
- ___ so often
- So others can hear
- So-called "fifth taste"
- So-called "king of summer fabrics"
- So-called "Rubber City," home of Goodyear
- Soccer great Rapinoe
- Social ___
- Social ___ (TikTok, Instagram, etc.)
- Social blunder
- Social class
- Social media app with Reels and Stories, casually
- Social media button with an arrow
- Social media currency
- Social media menace
- Social norms
- Socializes
- Societal no-no
- Sociologist's concern
- Soft rock?
- Soft serve alternative, familiarly
- Soft shots, in tennis
- Soft-serve request
- Softens with sudden sympathy or affection
- Solar revolutions
- Solemn sound from a church bell
- Solemn words
- Solicit with a goodie
- Solid baseball hit
- Solomonic figures
- Solution strength
- Some
- Some are gothic
- Some babysitters
- Some baroque instruments
- Some body builders?
- Some bow ties
- Some budget-friendly grocery stores
- Some cantina fare
- Some choppers
- Some Christmas tree decorations
- Some concert gear, informally
- Some concert refuse
- Some cuts of meat
- Some decorations on Christmas trees
- Some diner drinks
- Some drinks from "streams"
- Some exits in Exeter
- Some fountain drinks
- Some golf shirts
- Some hailstone "souvenirs"
- Some Indian flatbreads
- Some instructors, for short
- Some jeans
- Some McFlurry ingredients
- Some N.S.F.W. texts
- Some newspaper pieces that aren't news
- Some outfits for Bollywood films
- Some paycheck withholdings
- Some pieces of [circled letters] at the Thanksgiving table
- Some porcelain pieces
- Some prerevolutionary Mideast leaders
- Some pullover shirts
- Some repurposed cornfields
- Some saxes
- *Some Scandinavian money
- Some scenery in "The Road Runner Show"
- Some sheet music squiggles
- Some skin irritants
- Some sous-chef scraps
- Some spa treatments
- Some speech impediments
- Some stadium toppers
- Some stream settings
- Some thesis defenses
- Some unpleasant things to step on with bare feet
- Some winds
- Someone enjoying a walk in the park
- Someone who assumes the worst intentions in everything
- Someone who doesn't handle things right?
- Someone who might be swimming with the fishes
- Something a bug produces
- Something a majorette twirls
- Something a pirate might make you walk
- Something a reality show lacks
- Something a toddler might grow out of
- Something acute or obtuse
- Something blocked by censors
- Something consumed by the ton by whales
- Something gathered by a spy
- Something green in a greenhouse
- Something named on a license plate
- Something raised in a meeting
- Something stored in the cloud?
- Something that a medical donor gives or a church has
- Something that can be "acute" or "obtuse"
- Something that's carried while portaging, perhaps
- Something tickled on a piano
- Something to blow off or let off
- Something to do "like it's 1999"
- Something to paddle across a lake
- Something to R.S.V.P. to
- Something to raise in a crisis
- Something well-taken?
- Something won by successful Olympians
- Something you might get at a wedding
- Something you might not want to wake up to?
- "Something's ___" ("This doesn't seem right")
- "Sometimes you just gotta ___"
- Sometimes-floral organic compound
- ___ song (dangerous lure)
- Song commonly performed outdoors
- Sonia Sotomayor or Clarence Thomas, once
- Sonicare competitor
- Sonnets and such
- Soprano Fleming
- "Sorry, my calendar's full"
- "Sorry, unavailable then"
- Sound
- Sound asleep?
- Sound effect for a bop on the head
- Sound effect for a pogo stick
- Sound from the horse's mouth
- Sound heard during cold season
- Sound in a broadcast
- Sound of a cartoon hit
- Sound of a dull thump
- Sound of a joke flying over your head
- Sound of a perfect basketball shot
- Sound preceding "Gesundheit!"
- Sound sometimes written as Z's
- Sound that warns of a tornado
- Sounds before going to voicemail
- Sounds from lions
- "Sounds like a blast!"
- Sounds made with the fingers (quick!)
- Sounds of fall?
- Sounds of laughter
- Sounds of sudden vanishing
- Soup base
- Soup stock in Japanese cuisine
- "Soup's on!"
- Source of a natural sweetener
- Source of half the world's sugar during the late 1800s
- Source of Manchego cheese
- Source of motivation, in modern lingo
- Source of motivation, informally
- Source of some aerial shots
- Source of some classic rock bands
- Source of some South American wool
- Source of strength and resilience
- Source of the headline "Study: Dolphins Not So Intelligent on Land," with "The"
- Source of the word "tiki"
- Sources of the juice that "bleeds" in a faux meat patty
- Sourdough starter component
- South American barbecue
- South American flatbread
- South American flatbread made of ground maize
- South Asian royals
- Southern dish made from hominy
- Southwest landform
- Souvenir from the seashore
- Spa handout
- Spaghetti-strapped tops, informally
- Spandex trademark
- Spanish appetizers
- Spanish babies
- Spanish blessing
- Spanish conquistador ___ de León
- Spanish for "fire"
- Spanish for "good"
- Spanish island with a lively club scene
- Spanish letter
- Spanish nibbles
- Spanish small plates
- Spanish title
- Spar on a sailing boat
- Spawn
- Spawned
- Speak at a political convention, perhaps
- Speak extemporaneously
- Speak recklessly, with "off"
- Speak, as thou might
- Speaker stands
- Spearfishing bird
- Special offer
- Special request for a flight meal
- Specialized subject
- Specialized vocabulary
- Specialty
- Specks of dust
- Speculate
- Speculative venture
- Speedboat's speed
- Spelling Bee rank between "Good" and "Nice"
- Spelling bee?
- Spelunker
- Spending romp
- Sphere, e.g.
- Spice in curry powder
- Spicy chip brand
- Spicy marinade with chili peppers
- "Spider-Man" director Sam
- Spiked clubs used by knights
- Spiller of tea
- Spills (over)
- Spinal stack
- Spirit of an era
- Spiritual selves
- Spiritual sustenance
- Splendid
- Split up
- Spoiled girl in "Finding Nemo"
- Spoiled kids
- Spoils
- Spoke sheepishly?
- Sponge bath
- Spongy exfoliator
- Spooky
- Sport similar to pétanque
- Sports
- Sports center
- Sports franchises, e.g.
- Sports locale
- Spot for a backyard grill
- Spot for a light punishment
- Spot for a roller skater's pad
- Spot for a sun chair
- Spot for sports
- "Spot on!"
- Spot to find a pulse
- Spotify playlist makeup
- Spotify Wrapped listings
- Spots for addresses
- Spouts
- Sprayable disinfectant brand
- Spread, as cream cheese
- Springs in a mattress
- Sprinkle with oil, say
- Sprite
- Spry
- Spud
- Squad captained by Lindsey Horan to win Olympic gold in '24, for short
- Squander
- ___ squash
- Squeak or squeal
- Squeezing (out)
- Squelched
- Squirming in one's seat
- Squirrel away
- Sri ___
- St. ___ (vacation spot)
- St. Peter's Basilica attraction
- Stab, in a way
- Stable females
- Stable job
- Stack at a falafel shop
- Stack on a nightstand
- Stag
- Stage direction
- Stage name for Milton Marx
- "Stainless" metal
- Stake
- ___ Staley, original lead singer of Alice in Chains
- Stamp purchase
- *Stand before a meeting
- Stand by for
- "Stand clear of the closing ___, please" (iconic N.Y.C. subway announcement)
- Stand for a painter
- Stand for a portrait
- Stand for a poster
- Stand in good ___
- Stand out
- Stand up
- Stand-up comic ___ Wang
- Stand-up comic Sykes
- Standard
- Standard battle wear
- Standard option on a rideshare app
- Standing
- Stands for speakers
- Stanley of "Conclave"
- Staple vegetables in Hawaiian cooking
- Star ___ (plant with a pointy pod)
- Star football player?
- Star pitcher
- "Star Trek" officer portrayed by Zoe Saldaña
- "Star Wars" character originally portrayed by a puppet that weighed over a ton
- "Star Wars" droid, familiarly
- "Star Wars" droid, informally
- "Star Wars" series starring Diego Luna
- "Star Wars" title
- Starches and sugars as sources of energy, informally
- Stared rudely
- Stares stupidly
- Stark daughter played by Sophie Turner on "Game of Thrones"
- Starr on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Stars to gaze up at
- Start
- Start of a choosing rhyme
- Start of a counting rhyme
- Start of a declaration of 47 B.C.
- Start of a historic triple boast
- Start of a selection process
- Start of a tennis point
- Start of an encrypted URL
- Start of many first-year course names
- Started
- Started a game of blackjack, say
- ___ starters
- Starting group
- Starting to learn
- Starts a turn in Monopoly
- Starts daydreaming, with "out"
- Stash away
- State capital in the Treasure Valley
- State flower of New Mexico
- State known for its potatoes
- State that only borders one other state
- State that shares the same first and last letters with MOOSE, appropriately
- State that's home to Shoshone Falls
- State whose official fruit is the huckleberry
- State-sponsored "wealth redistribution" scheme
- Statement that's self-evidently true
- States for the record
- Staticky laundry phenomenon
- Statuette awarded at Hollywood's Dolby Theatre
- Status after a leadoff walk
- Stay under the covers all morning, to a Brit
- Stayed home for dinner
- Stays in line, say
- Steak similar to a porterhouse
- Stealthy spy with a blowgun
- Steam room alternative
- Steamed
- Steaming mad
- Steel girder
- Steel rod with ridges
- Steep-walled canyon
- Steeple topper
- Stem component
- Step forcefully
- Step heavily
- Step in rehab
- Step in the shower
- Stepped-on instrument
- Steps on a scale
- Stereotypical meal for a college student
- Stereotypically uncooperative creatures
- Stevie Nicks and Karen Carpenter, vocally
- Stew on it!
- Stew server
- Stick by a fireplace
- Stick in an orchestra
- Stick out noticeably
- Sticker that usually comes in sets of three or four?
- Sticks a fork in
- Sticky stuff
- Sticky tree secretion
- Stiff
- Still single
- Stiller's comedic partner
- Stiller's partner in comedy
- Stinging, as an odor
- Stockholm native
- "Stompin' at the ___" (Benny Goodman standard)
- Stone figure?
- Stone measure
- Stop and Yield
- "Stop!"
- Stopped lying
- Stopped sleeping
- Storage area
- Storage places for lawn mowers
- Storage units
- "Storage Wars" network
- Store, as ashes
- Stores owned and run by their workers
- Stores selling Snödrottning pillowcases
- Storied graverobber
- "Straight ___ Compton" (1989 N.W.A album)
- Straight-up
- Strains to hear?
- Stranger, informally
- Strapped for cash
- Streaks of lightning
- Streisand musical
- Stress-induced discomfort
- Stretch one's legs, say
- Stretch out one's neck
- Stretchy material
- Strike zone?
- Strike-breaking workers
- String of saliva
- String-plucking sound
- Stringed instrument that becomes an exclamation if you switch its second and third letters
- Stringed instrument that rests on the ground
- Stringed instruments of old
- Striped kitty
- Strong point
- Strong string
- Strong suit?
- Strongest bone in the human body
- Strongly desire
- Strongly disliked
- Struggles with sibilant sounds
- Strung along
- Stuck in the mud
- Student of Socrates
- Student's subspecialty
- Studies all night, say
- Studio behind "Coco" and "Cars"
- Studio sign
- Study of the human mind, informally
- Stuff of little substance
- Stumped on a puzzle, say
- Style of a room
- Subject of 2001 bankruptcy headlines
- Subject of an Oscars announcement
- Subject of an R.S.V.P.
- Subject of inflation
- Subject of many Sun Tzu quotes
- Submarine navigation aid
- Subscription prices
- Substitute for "etc."
- Subterranean adventurer
- Subway commuter's annoyance
- Subway system
- Subway vehicle
- *Succeed
- Success on a dating app
- Successful gain of ten yards, when combined with this answer's direction?
- Succulents that soothe
- "Such a shame"
- Sudden attack
- Sudden increase
- Sudden movement
- Sudden muscle tightness
- Sudden shocks
- Sufferer healed by Jesus
- Suffix meaning "rule"
- Suffragist Harriet Taylor ___
- Sugar ___
- Sugar amounts
- Suggest
- Suitable for a game of 20 Questions, in a way
- Sullen sort
- Summa cum ___
- Summary of a sports game
- ___ Summer (program for Annapolis freshmen)
- Summer camp craft
- Summer camper's conveyance
- Summer forecast
- Summer vacation destination
- Summer vacation locale
- Summons
- ___ Sun (drink in a pouch)
- ___ Sun (juice drink)
- Sun blocker
- Sun: Prefix
- Super 8 or Red Roof Inn
- "Super Dry" brewer
- Super man?
- Super, slangily
- Super-excited, in slang
- Super-rich individual
- Super-silly sort
- Superman is one, notably
- Supped
- Supplies for a diaper change
- Supply for Hershey
- Supply with more weaponry
- Support for a knee or a neck
- Support, as for a corporate plan
- Suppress
- Surface
- Surface over which to skip a stone … as illustrated in the circled letters
- Surfers ride them
- Surge protector?
- Surgery that leaves the patient looking better?
- Surgical specialty, informally
- Surname that derives from the Sanskrit word for "lion"
- Surplus
- Surprising result
- Surprisingly dangerous "river horse"
- Surrey's Derby town
- Surrounding glows
- "Survivor" group
- Susceptible to bribery
- Suspect
- Suspended musical instruments
- Swag
- Sweat ___
- Swedish furniture stores
- Sweet Japanese rice cake that may be filled with ice cream
- Sweet or sour
- Sweet sandwich
- Sweet tropical fruit
- Sweet, in Seville
- Sweetly, on scores
- Swell
- Swindled
- ___ swing (outdoor seating)
- Swinton of 2024's "The Room Next Door"
- Swiss ___ (salad green)
- Swiss currency
- Switcheroo
- Symbol for "like" on Instagram
- Symbol for ohms
- Symbol of authority
- Symbol of strength and solidity
- Symbol on the U.S. quarter
- Symbol used in summation
- Synthetic fiber
- "T-bone steak, cheese eggs and Welch's ___" (Notorious B.I.G.'s breakfast in "Big Poppa")
- T. ___ (fearsome dinos)
- "Ta-ta!"
- Tabasco, for one
- Tablets that can't be swallowed
- Tabloid subject, informally
- ___ Taco (ice cream treat)
- Taco bar adjective
- Tailor's measurement
- Take a constitutional
- Take a hankie to, say
- "Take a look!"
- Take care of, as a task
- Take fowl foully
- Take in a stray, say
- Take inspiration from
- "Take it easy!"
- "Take me ___"
- Take off the market
- Take on
- Take one's foot off the gas
- Take over
- Take pleasure in
- Take the top off, as a tube of toothpaste
- "Take this job and shove it!"
- Take without paying ... or a motion made while paying
- Takes a breather
- Takes a card from the deck
- Takes a hit
- Takes a little off
- Takes badly?
- Takes full advantage of
- Takes the edge off
- Takes the L
- Taking to court
- Tale from Aesop
- Tale of rustic life
- Talent broker
- Talk ___ (boastfully banter)
- Talk trash to
- "Talk turkey" or "eat crow"
- Talking ___ (early dating period, in modern lingo)
- Talking back to
- Talks in an unserious way
- Talks too much
- Tall and thin
- Tall tale tellers
- Tall-eared cats from Devon or Cornwall
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