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- Started to boil
- Starting point
- ___ State, nickname for New York
- Staves off
- Steady, low sounds
- Steak option
- Steakhouse orders
- Steal for ransom
- Steamy
- Steers clear of
- Step down
- Step on it
- Stephen King's telekinetic teen of horror
- Stepped up to the plate
- Stereotypical cry after "Honey …"
- Steve ___, 2003 N.F.L. M.V.P.-winning quarterback
- Stew (over)
- Stick (to)
- Stick to simple and unprocessed foods, say
- Stick together
- Sticky note
- Stile coins that have gone out of style
- Stinging plant
- Stir up
- Stockholder's portion
- Stole
- "Stop!"
- Storage room in a church
- "Storage unit" of memory in the brain
- Storm, say
- Storytelling device that revises previously established facts, informally
- Stout figure?
- Straight-horned antelopes
- Stranger
- Strategy against fickle weather
- Streaming channel?
- Stretch
- Strike down
- Strip down the Interstate
- Stroke gently
- Stroke lovingly
- Struck
- Structure in a shipping container
- Struggle
- Strut down the "RuPaul's Drag Race" runway, say
- Stuck
- Stuck doing the same old, same old
- Student's goal
- Style that's short on the sides and long in the back
- Stylishly elegant
- Subject for van Gogh
- Subject of a saying about new tricks
- Subject of a statue near Liverpool's Cavern Club
- Subject of some modern maps
- Subjects of some Billboard charts
- Submit
- Subservient sort
- Subtle difference
- Succeeds without really trying
- Sudden and unexpected
- Sudden, powerful gust of wind
- Sugary secretion
- "Sully" or "Spartacus"
- Summer temp, say
- Sunni or Shiite
- Superlatively contemptible
- Supplement
- Supplies
- Support for the tree pose in yoga
- Supporters of L.G.B.T.Q.+ people
- Supreme Egyptian god
- "Sure thing!"
- Surface of a well-used wok
- Surgery recovery period, in brief
- Surgical stitch
- Surgical tool with a namesake medical journal
- Surname of two Indian prime ministers
- Surprisingly enough
- Surrenders
- Surveyed, with "out"
- Sushi consisting of thin slices of fish over rice
- Swahili for "journey"
- Swallowed hard
- "Swan Lake" role
- Swarming insect
- Swear
- Swear off, with "of"
- Sweetheart, in French
- Swells up
- Swirling currents
- Sword go-with
- Sworn
- Sylvan
- Symbol of rebirth in ancient Egypt
- Symbolize
- Syndicate of drug dealers
- Take cargo from
- Take giant steps
- Take on, or take down
- Take to the cleaners
- Take weapons away from
- Takes care of
- Takes exception
- Takes marks off in a classroom?
- Takes off
- Tale as old as time
- Talks back to
- Tawdry
- Tax on imports
- Tea traders?
- Teacher's pet, say, in slang
- Team lineup
- Tech debut of 2007
- Temp workers dressed in red
- Term for groups of [circled letters]
- Term of address for a nun
- Term of endearment, in one spelling
- ___ Territory, 1861-89
- Test of will
- Texas setting for 2004's "Friday Night Lights"
- Thanksgiving kitchen tool
- "That dis was goo-ood!!"
- "That much is obvious"
- "That's actually pretty neat!"
- "That's freaking epic!"
- "That's true about me, right?"
- The "log" in "ants on a log"
- The "M" in RAM
- The "O" of A.O.C.
- The "S" of A.B.S.
- The "terrible twos" and the "threenager" years, for example
- The "W" of the W.N.B.A.
- The 12 angry men in "12 Angry Men," e.g.
- The ___ Project (mental health organization for LGBTQ+ youth)
- "The ___ Prometheus," Mary Shelley's subtitle to "Frankenstein"
- The Beatles' "Please Please Me" and "A Hard Day's Night," e.g.
- The Brady household, including Alice, e.g.
- The eldest Levy of "Schitt's Creek"
- ___ the Great, king of ancient Persia
- "The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being ___": Mahatma Gandhi
- "The Handmaid's Tale" author
- "The heart of the internet," per its tagline
- "The little blue pill"
- "The Matrix" character, with "the"
- "The Merchant of Venice" heroine
- The moment of truth
- "The Office" accountant who kept a cat in her desk drawer
- The Onion's output
- The real Slim Shady
- The Shakespearean version of this has three quatrains followed by a couplet
- The Sphinx, for one
- "The Two ___" (second installment of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy)
- (The) boondocks
- "There's no stopping me!"
- They aren't party people
- They can be well-done
- They communicate through bill-clattering
- They may crumble under cross-examination
- They might be green or red
- They save the day
- They're adjusted when truing a bicycle wheel
- They're at the ends of some rainbows
- They're charged for long trips
- They're concerned with feeding kits
- They're measured in degrees
- They're not up to much
- They're often made at weddings
- They're often picked up at coffee shops
- They're protected by scabbards
- They're toast
- Thickets
- Thin on the ground
- Thingamabob
- Things made by toddlers and directors
- Things that typically build up during vacation
- Things to be cleansed from the body
- Think back on
- Think highly of
- Third-generation Japanese American
- Third-party holding
- This might be ground-breaking
- This puzzle's subject
- This puzzle's subject, in two very different ways
- Thorny tree that's a favorite of giraffes
- Thrill seeker's line
- Throwing for a loop
- Throws spray, in surfer lingo
- Tightly wound, maybe
- TikTok phenomena
- Time off, perhaps?
- Time piece?
- Timeless, to a poet
- Times between dusk and dawn
- Times up
- Tina Fey and Amy Poehler vis-à-vis "Saturday Night Live"
- Tiny bit of packing material
- Tiny flies
- Tiny slice
- -tion, for one
- Tip on quite a few bucks?
- Tired expression
- Title girl in a Beach Boys hit
- Title woman in a 1965 Beach Boys hit
- Titular role in a 2024 Disney prequel
- *To a degree
- To a greater degree
- "To victory!"
- Toasts
- Toddler's jumping spot on a rainy day
- Tofu alternative
- Toil
- "Tom ___" (classic folk song that became a #1 hit in 1958)
- Tom ___, "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" satirist
- "Toodle-oo!"
- Took big steps
- Took orders, say
- Took steps
- Tool for winter fishing
- Tool in the opening scene of Disney's "Frozen"
- Tool with coarse teeth
- Tools for potatoes
- Tooth covering
- Toothache care option
- Toothache medication
- Top to accompany a skirt
- Toppers that twinkle
- Toppings blended with ice cream
- Tops of palaces?
- Tops of waves
- Torment
- Tormented
- Total
- Total slimeball
- Totally absorbed
- Tough nut to crack
- Trade for cash
- Trading card error
- Training aids for a lab, say
- Transaction with no money down
- Transfers, as funds
- Transforms
- Transforms (into)
- … transport)(Bigwig's …
- Travel bag
- Travel option that serves 46 states
- Traveler's check, in brief?
- Treasure or desert follower
- Treat
- Treatment
- Tree growth indicative of good air quality
- Tree nymphs
- Tree that can be a source of water for thirsty elephants
- Tree whose leaves are eaten by [circled letters]
- Trees commonly confused with birches
- Tres ___ cake
- Triangular sail
- Trickster figure in Native American folklore
- Tried not to draw attention
- Trigonometry ratio
- Tripping
- Trix or Kix
- Tropical fruit with black seeds
- Trounce
- Truffle pigs' assets
- Truth
- "Truth be told …"
- Try again
- Try to make sense of a passage one didn't understand the first time
- Try to produce better offspring from
- Tuber that's the source of tapioca
- ___ Tuesday (end of the pre-Lenten season)
- Tumult
- Turkey part
- Turkish summit
- Turn up
- Twee
- Twinkles
- Two-___ schooner
- Two-time Grammy-winning Easton
- Type of stanza
- Type of Thai red curry
- Types in
- Tyrannical ruler
- U.S. travel requirement starting in 2025
- Ubiquitous head coverings
- Ukrainian peninsula seized by Russia in 2014
- Ukrainian seaport, in an older spelling
- Unbroken
- Uncle of Huey, Dewey and Louie
- Uncommon color on the red carpet
- Under a parasol, say
- Undergoes a chemical change
- Underhanded
- Understands, despite efforts at concealment
- Undeserved condemnation
- Undeserved reputation, informally
- Undivided
- Unearthed?
- Uneasy giggle
- Unexpected endings
- Unfortunate accident
- Unfruitful
- Union victory site of 1862
- Unit of angular measurement
- Units equal to roughly a quarter of a calorie
- Unlike the direction of this clue's answer
- Unruffled
- Unscripted comedy
- Untouchable
- Up for the day
- Up, now
- Upholsterer's sample
- Upper-crusters
- Upset
- Use a roller on, as a jacket
- Use mouthwash, say
- Uses an alternate account to play against easier opponents, in gamer-speak
- Utter chaos
- Utter foolishness
- Vacation rental
- Val who played Iceman in "Top Gun"
- Variety of rabbit or goat
- Vast Eurasian grassland
- Veer this way and that
- Vegan milk source
- Vegetable also known as a Mexican turnip
- Venture, as a guess
- Venues for concerts and competitions
- Verse from Emily Dickinson or Emma Lazarus
- Very complicated situation, so to speak
- Very large number
- Very muscular, in slang
- Very traditional sort
- Vessel with a spout
- Veteran
- Veterans Day event
- Vexes
- Video game character with an endless appetite
- Video game with falling pieces
- Vietnamese sandwich
- Violent seizure, as of property
- Viral 2010s dance that Hillary Clinton performed on TV
- Viral dance of the 2010s
- Virtual animal companion popularized in the 2000s
- Visibly disdainful
- Viva voce
- Vocalize
- Voids
- Volcanic gems found on every continent
- ___ voyage (first trip)
- Vulgar
- Vulgarians
- Waikiki welcomes
- "Wait a sec"
- "Wait, ___?"
- Waiter or waitress
- Walked gingerly
- Wall-mounted light fixture
- ___ Waller-Bridge, star and creator of TV's "Fleabag"
- Wanes, with "off"
- Want very much, with "for"
- Warm winter coats
- Was almost out of supplies
- Was especially wintry
- Was flaky?
- Was overflowing
- Washington or Berlin
- Watch via Hulu, say
- "Watch your back!"
- Wavelength symbol
- Waves sought by surfers
- Waves to, e.g.
- Way
- Way of doing things
- Way to the highway
- "We come in peace" speakers, in a sci-fi trope
- "We want more!"
- "We're on!"
- Wealthy sort
- Web host?
- Website that calls itself "the heart of the internet"
- Website with a "Submit a Rumor" tab
- Website with an alien logo
- Wee mewer
- ___-weenie
- Weighs in
- Weight
- Well again
- "Well, in that case ..."
- "Well, shucks!"
- Well-rounded figure?
- Went after
- Went paddling
- Westminster Abbey has one named after King Henry VII
- Wet floor?
- Wet, with thunder and lightning
- What "e-" can mean
- "What a pity"
- What an underage person usually gets at a bar?
- What big crowds do
- What choreologists study
- What comes from needing little, per Epictetus
- What headphones often play in
- What it all comes down to
- What may slow the pace of some legs in a marathon
- What misers take to an extreme
- What Neapolitan ice cream is divided into
- What one might take or beat
- What Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa are both believed to have
- What some people think this puzzle's image represents
- What the second number indicates in men's jeans sizes
- What this puzzle's sets of shaded squares resemble
- What wets the appetite?
- What you blink with
- What you might drive while your car is in the shop
- When woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers roamed the earth
- Whence St. Francis
- Where Benjamin Franklin is buried, familiarly
- Where Cary Grant orders a Gibson in a classic scene from "North by Northwest"
- Where clams are served
- Where Excalibur was forged
- Where landlubbers are at home
- Where Noah's Ark landed
- Where you are when in Roma
- Which unit of data storage could hold 200,000 HD movies?
- Whiffs, say
- Whirling currents
- White blood cell producer said to be shaped like a coffee bean
- White House partner, for short
- White of the eye
- White-collar figure
- Whose fault your mistake might be
- "Why you little …!"
- Wide and uninhibited, as a grin
- Widget
- Wikipedia's logo, e.g.
- Wild chase?
- Will of "Arrested Development"
- Wilted
- Wimpy friend?
- Win over
- Win-win
- Windbag's output
- Window shades
- Winged figure in Raphael's "Sistine Madonna"
- Wire holders
- Wish one could take back
- With a clean slate
- With a level head
- With a light touch
- With all judges present
- With courtesy
- With gossip and beer over Friday's ___ game
- With hands on hips
- Withdraw from a union
- Wizard's mixture
- Wobble
- Wolfs (down)
- Women's areas in old Muslim palaces
- "Woo-hoo!"
- Woodworking machine
- Word after "interior" or "intelligent"
- Word after high or holy
- Word after Irish or jet
- Word before derby or coaster
- Word on a protest sign
- Word with college or message
- Word with job or track
- Word with name or voyage
- Word with paper or humor
- Word with power or pawn
- Word with sex or status
- Words after "Honey!"
- Work parodied by Umberto Eco's "Granita"
- Worked sufferingly
- Worker involved in firings?
- Worker overhead
- Worker who's behind the Times?
- Workers who sing the opening number in "Frozen"
- Workplace concern for seniors
- Works of Rossini and Bellini
- Works out, say
- World capital that's home to the Kocatepe Mosque
- World's most-produced organic compound
- World's second-most-populous island
- Worried
- Woulda-shoulda connector
- "Wow, cool!"
- "Wow, that can't be right!"
- Wrecks beyond repair
- Wrestle
- Write, as music
- Writer Gay
- Wyndham hotel brand
- Wyoming mountain range
- Yasir of the P.L.O.
- "Yeah, I bet"
- Yellow-and-black ideogram
- "Yes, captain!"
- "You know better than that"
- "You Pick Two" bakery chain
- "You sure?"
- "You will be ___"
- "You've gotta be kidding!"
- Zeroes
- Zinnia or sunflower
- Zombie's status
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