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- Plumbing and welding, e.g.
- Plus other things, in Latin
- Point of a polygon
- Points to a church?
- Poked
- Polar wear
- ___ polaris
- Poles can be found next to them
- Poles tossed in a Highland competition
- Polite titles
- Political exile
- Political leaflets
- Political rival of Mark Antony
- Politico Nancy
- Pollen producer on a flower
- Pollster Lou or singer Emmylou
- Pompadour or pigtails
- Poogle or Cybunny
- Popular export from Islay or Speyside
- Popular GMC pickup
- Port of Spain?
- Port on the Loire
- Portable computer
- Portmanteau for a queer Fortnite player, say
- Portmanteau sandwich cookie with a layer of marshmallow
- Post-mortem
- Potential benefit
- Pounced
- Power source
- Powerless
- Practical types who are often perfectionists, it's said
- Practically speechless?
- Practice casually, with "in"
- Practice taught in a dojo
- Practiced pitches
- Precocious literary resident of the Plaza Hotel
- Prepared (for)
- Prepared one's home for a new arrival
- Prepares to be knighted
- Prepares, as shumai
- President who married one of his kindergarten classmates
- President's middle name (accented on the first syllable) or California city (accented on the second)
- Presidential candidate Harris
- Pressed sandwich
- Prettifies
- Price for a return, perhaps
- Pricing game on "The Price Is Right"
- Pride celebration
- Prima ballerina
- Primary PC storage
- Primates found only in and around Madagascar
- Primates' realm
- Prince of Monaco beginning in 2005
- Principle of improv comedy
- Print-ready
- Pristine, as land
- Private reply
- Privileged groups
- Proceeds like congested traffic
- Produce aisle device
- Programming language that's also a musical key
- Prohibit from practicing law
- Prom, e.g.
- Prominent feature of Jafar and the Genie in "Aladdin"
- Promising places?
- Prompts to play, while conducting
- Proverbial slowpoke
- Proverbial small amount
- Pudding typically served with "neeps and tatties"
- Pulitzer-winning "Fat Ham" playwright
- Pulitzer-winning poet Aiken
- Pulls the chain of, so to speak
- Pulsates
- Pulverizing tool
- Puma rival
- Puma's pad?
- Punjabi metropolis
- Punnily named production company behind TV's "Insecure" and "A Black Lady Sketch Show"
- Pure Leaf tea distributor
- Purposely wrongs
- Pursuits
- Put back on the payroll
- Put down on paper
- Put to rest
- Put your nose where it doesn't belong, say
- Puts down
- Puts forward
- Puts icing on
- Puts in one's two cents
- Puts pen to paper
- Puts up a false front
- Puzzle type that was the Oxford Dictionaries' 2005 U.K. "word of the year"
- Pygmalion's Galatea, for one
- Épéeist, e.g.
- Quantity
- Query for Claude, e.g.
- Quite a lot?
- Quite spirited
- Quite the stir
- Races longer than marathons, informally
- Racing vehicle
- Ragamuffin
- Rags, e.g.
- Rakish
- Ran after
- Ran amok
- Randall who created the webcomic "xkcd"
- Rang
- Rang out
- Rang, as a bell
- Ranger's domain
- Rare bird
- Rarin' to go
- Rat (on)
- Rates of return
- Reach quickly, as a conclusion
- Reached the top of one's game
- Read
- Read thoroughly
- Ready to go
- Ready to go, with "up"
- "Really awful"
- Really involved
- Really irritated
- Really ridiculous
- Really, really
- Really, really cool
- "Really?!"
- Realm of the Aztecs or Incas
- "Reason" given in a parental "explanation"
- Rebel as a group
- Recurring bug?
- Recurring thematic elements
- Red bit in a salad
- "Red, the color of ___ / Black, the color of despair" ("Les Misérables" lyric)
- Red-headed character in the "Scooby-Doo" franchise
- Reddish-brown antiseptic in a first-aid kit
- Reducing to rubble
- Refrigerator, quaintly
- Refuse to budge
- Regard
- Regrettably unfortunate
- Rejoices
- Related to spiritual cause and effect
- Relating to a son or daughter
- Relating to part of the heart
- Relative of a gazelle
- Relative of house music
- Relaxed
- Release volatile compounds to the air
- Relieve, as pain
- Religious dissent
- Remit, say
- Remove from office
- Remove the ropes from, perhaps
- Remove, as heavy grime
- Remove, as nails from a cat
- Removes a curse?
- Removes forcibly
- Removes from the top of one's profile, as an Instagram post
- Rented
- Repelled
- Reporter's attribution atop an article
- Represent
- Repulsive
- Request in billiards or beer pong
- Requirement for domestic air travel starting in 2025
- Resembling
- Resident of Africa's fourth-largest country
- Resident of Aleppo
- Resident of Pisa or Lucca
- Resident of the so-called "Nation of Poets"
- Respond, as a pupil might
- Rest period
- Restaurant icon McDonald
- Restraining maneuver in judo
- Restrictive undergarment
- Rests (on)
- Rests on one's laurels
- Results of swiping
- Reunion attendees
- Reviews, as taxes
- Rewards for excellent employees
- Rhetorician
- "Rhoda" actress Valerie
- Ricochet
- Right-leaning?
- Ring combo
- Rinse with water, as grain in the brewing process
- Ripped to pieces
- Rise on the market
- Risky bets
- Road trip stopovers
- Rode, in a way
- Role for Annie Potts on "Young Sheldon"
- Role for Geena Davis in "A League of Their Own"
- Role for John Travolta on "Welcome Back, Kotter"
- Role for Mike Myers in the Austin Powers movies
- Roll on, as time
- Rolling Stones frontman
- Ropes in
- "___ Rouge"
- Rough, in a way
- Roundup rope
- Roving floor cleaner
- Rub with oil
- Rubber stamp go-with
- Rubbish receptacle
- Ruby lookalike
- Rudimentary
- Rudimentary seeds
- Ruler with an iron fist
- Run out of clothes?
- Run-of-the-mill
- Rush uncontrolledly
- Russian crepes
- Ryan with swimming gold medals in four straight Olympics
- Ryder of "Stranger Things"
- S, in the NATO alphabet
- S.L.R. insert since the early 2000s
- Sacrilegious
- Sailor's patron
- Salad green
- Salon substance
- Sample collected by Ancestry.com
- Samples
- Samples, as soup
- Sampras rival during the 1990s
- Samurai sword
- Samwise ___, companion of Frodo Baggins
- San Diego suburb
- San Francisco team, informally
- Sandwich with sauerkraut
- Santa's laugh
- Sarcastic
- Sassy response to a put-down
- Satchel with a gendered name
- Satellite transmission path
- Sauce served with Peking duck
- Sausage, in British lingo
- Saver's asset
- Savory rice porridge
- Say "I do," say
- Say without saying
- Says out loud without thinking
- Scalper's transaction
- "Scarface"
- Scatters messily
- Scenes on Black Friday
- Scented
- Schmooze
- Schöningen ___, German mine discoveries that may be up to 300,000 years old
- Sci-fi sequel of 1986
- Sci-fi writer Isaac
- Scoop of sour cream
- Scorcher
- Scratch-and-sniff samples
- Screw-ups
- Scribbled (down)
- Sculpted
- Sculptor's tool
- Sea shanty singer
- Sea surrounding Mykonos
- ___ Sea, body between Sicily and Greece
- Sear
- Seattle N.H.L. team
- Second wedding anniversary material
- Second-in-command
- Second-smallest U.S. state capital by population (about 14,000 people)
- "Secret" holiday figures
- Section of a dress shop
- Self-effacing
- Self-proclaimed
- Self-proclaimed "Rap God"
- Self-reflective question
- Send out of the country, as goods
- Senegalese ___ (hairstyle)
- Sent
- Sent by post
- Sentimental sort
- Separate (out)
- Series of messages on social media
- Serve a jail sentence
- Server's warning at a restaurant
- Serving piece
- Servings at teas
- Set aflame
- Set of nine dancing in "The 12 Days of Christmas"
- Set of notes in a seventh chord
- Set off
- Set sail
- Setting for "Gorillas in the Mist"
- Setting for "Quincy, M.E.," on 1970s-’80s TV
- Setting for a landscape
- Settings for a mixer
- Settle in, say
- Settled down
- Setups for some elaborate group pictures
- Seven days in San Juan
- Sexually excite … or another punny title for this puzzle?
- Shabby shelter
- Shade of red
- Shaggy hairstyle
- Shakespearean duke
- Shamefaced
- Shangri-La
- Share
- Sharper
- Sharpshooter's asset
- "Sheesh!"
- Shell competitor
- Shifts gears, say
- Shin guards protect them
- Shindig for someone to announce whether they're having a boy or a girl
- Shindig for someone who's about to tie the knot
- Ship-to-shore communicators
- Shipping container
- Shocked
- Shoe brand named for an antelope
- Shoe covering
- Shoe part
- Short adventure tales
- Short arguments
- Short negative review
- Shortage
- Show off
- Show on which Jon Hamm had his breakout role
- Show to be bogus
- Show up
- Show with a laugh track
- Showed great pride, in a way
- Showed some real malice toward
- Showing less bias
- Shows again, as a broadcast
- Shows pride in one's appearance, in a way
- Shows signs of hunger
- Shredded, as a contract
- Shrub with bright flowers
- Sibling's cry of protest, maybe
- Sidesteps
- Sight you can hardly believe
- Sight-related
- Sign on a restroom door
- Sign up
- Signature headwear for Mr. Monopoly
- Significant periods
- Silently greet someone
- Silly behaviors
- Simple wooden shoes
- ___ Simpson, musical sister of Jessica
- Singer Morissette with the 1995 #1 album "Jagged Little Pill"
- Singer's contribution to a song
- Single-masted vessels
- Sings in the Alps
- Sirenlike
- Sirloin alternative
- Sister of Moses
- Sit?
- Size up
- Skeptic's remark
- Sketches
- Ski in zigzags
- Skims, as soup stock
- Skin care company
- Skips all the ceremony?
- Skips over
- Skulks
- Skyscraper's skeleton, often
- Slander
- "Slavonic Dances" composer
- Slick, say
- Slightly out of tune
- Slip-on or slide
- Slips a card up one's sleeve, say
- Slopes to the side
- Slugger's tally
- Sluggish
- Small advancement
- Small bite
- Small bouquets
- Small castle tower
- Small change
- Small crowns
- Small flycatchers named for their call, not their size
- Small songbird
- Small sounds
- Small surgical instrument
- Smallest member of the genus Lynx
- Smart
- Smear
- Smears with goo
- Smith who has won the Triple Crown of Acting
- Smokey Robinson's record label
- Smolder
- Smooched
- Smooth and glossy
- Smooth, now
- Smoothed (out)
- Snacked
- Snag
- Snail's tentacle or butterfly's antenna
- Snap, crackle and pop
- Snicker
- Snipes of "White Men Can't Jump"
- Snogged
- Snooping (around)
- Snow bunnies are inclined to hit them
- Snowmobile brand
- "So cute!!"
- So-called "father of macroeconomics"
- "So-o-o, as I was saying ..."
- Soak up
- Soaked up the sun
- Soccer star Messi
- ___ society
- Soda bottle units
- Soda brand named for a volcano
- Soft, silky material
- Software accessed via an online browser
- Software giant in the Fortune 100
- Sold for some quick cash, say
- Solitary sort
- Some
- Some anxious behavior on one's feet
- Some athleisure bottoms
- Some Basque headwear
- Some chemistry lab procedures
- Some coffee merchants' offerings
- Some commotion in a sheepfold
- Some double-headed drums
- Some eels
- Some landscaping equipment
- Some lawn ornaments
- Some radio tubes
- Some salon tasks
- Some steaks
- Some terminals
- Some vacation rentals
- Some épéeists' moves
- Someone having mixed success at work?
- Someone singing "Something"
- Something a child takes a swing at
- Something often hit without you seeing it
- Something to hum
- Something typically taken every 10 years
- Something you do every day, say
- Sometimes-uncredited appearances
- Song suitable for a slow dance
- Soothsayer
- Sort of person who brings people together
- Sound in polka music
- Sound of fall leaves underfoot
- Sounding good, as a musical instrument
- Sounding like taffeta, say
- Sounds from baby robins
- Source of income for a website
- Source of onomatopoeic words
- South Indian lentil stew
- Southernmost country in Central America
- Southwestern dwellings
- Sowing machine
- "Space ___" (1969 David Bowie single)
- Span from C to C, in music
- Special-ordered
- Specialized vocabularies
- Speeds of slow-moving traffic
- Spelling combinations?
- Spends a long time in front of the mirror, maybe
- Spews out
- Spice Girl alongside Baby, Ginger, Scary and Posh
- Spicy Sweet Chili chip
- Spicy wing, as seen on a popular YouTube talk show
- Spider's pouch
- Spills
- Spinner of tunes
- Spirit seen on el Día de los Muertos
- Spirited and determined
- Spit it out!
- Split component, at times
- Split, as the Red Sea
- Spoil
- Spoke to a convention, say
- Spoon, e.g.
- *Sport that uses mallets
- Sport-___
- Sports figure who traditionally wears an orange armband, in brief
- Sportswriter Shelburne
- Spot for a pinball machine
- Spot treatment provider?
- Spots where pins are dropped?
- Spotted wildcat
- Spread
- Spread dirt
- Spring Cleaning Box 2: Someone else will love it!
- Spring up
- Square dance figure
- Squirrel's hoard
- Stab of pain
- Stage-left orchestra section
- Stagnant
- Stands around an art gallery
- Stank
- "Star Trek" engineer
- Start a long drive, in a way
- Start liking
- Start to take off, as a onesie
- Start to type?
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