Letter S
Stewart's love in "Vertigo"
Small Chevys of yore
Some big blowups
Some old Chevy models
Space flare-ups
Spectacular stars
Stars blowing up
Stars that blaze and fade
Stars that flare up, then fade
Stars that lose their sudden shine
Stars that suddenly become much brighter
Stars with fluctuating brightness
Stellar bursts
Stellar events
Stellar explosions
Stellar flare-ups
Stellar spectacles
Sudden brightenings of stars
substitute one thing in place of another
Statute prohibiting certain gymnastics?
"S. P. Q. R.," for instance.
"Sironia, Texas," for instance.
"Song of Solomon" or "The Color Purple"
"Song of Solomon," for one
Scholastique Mukasonga's "Our Lady of the Nile," for one
Scott creation
Source for a movie, often
Source for a movie, sometimes
Steinbeck work
Stephen King creation
Stephen King output
Stone ware
style of writing characteristic of poor novels
STORY of moderate length
Short romance.
Short work.
Short fictitious tales.
Stephen, but not the saint
Software company that Eric Schmidt was CEO of before becoming Google's CEO
Short book
Short long story?
Short story's big brother
Shorter Story
Small book
Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," e.g.
Story as in the "Decameron."
Short fiction
Short fiction books such as "Binti"
Short stories of sorts
Short read (var.)
Short stories, like Boccaccio's.
Short tales, as the "Decameron."
Short tales, from the Italian
Short tales: It.
Scott's are called "Waverley."
Some book club choices
Some books
Steel production?
Steel works?
Storied works
Something new or unusual
Squirting flower, say
something new original and unused
something new original and unusual
something new original or unusual
Seller of miscellaneous gifts
Some Pulitzer nominees
SAINT Andrew, feast month of
SAINT Catherine of Alexandria, feast month of
SAINT Cecilia, feast month of
SAINT Elizabeth of Hungary, feast month of
SAINT John of the Cross, feast month of (former)
SAINT Willibrord, feast month of
Series of repeated Catholic prayers
Spanish prayers
set of prayers or services on nine consecutive days
stepmotherly
-- Sad (city on the Danube)
__ Sad, Serbia
___ Sad (Serbia's second-largest city)
___ Sad (capital of Vojvodina)
___ Sad, Yugoslav city
___ Sad, Yugoslavia
___Sad (Yugoslavia's second-largest city)
Sweetheart of Seville
Sweetheart: Sp.
someone new to a field or activity
Serbia's second city
Serbian provincial capital on the Danube
Sign outside a hospital room, maybe
Sign prohibiting sunshades?
someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows
synthetic drug
Strategic Black Sea port.
Sign of dissent
Singer Jarmila.
Star of Met and "The Search."
"See It ___" (news show hosted by Murrow)
"Serenity ___!" (cry for inner calm on "Seinfeld")
"Spring the trap!"
See 6- Down
Short order from mom
Smeal campaign?
Sooner than later
Soothing word, when repeated.
__ showing: theater info
Sign at a drop-off zone
"Surely you're kidding!"
Slangy way to emphatically refuse an offer
Situation if the dice lack sixes?
State of a bottle-fed baby?
Start of a PA announcement on a naval ship
Some get here fast
State of obscurity
Statement after Vietnamese emperor Bao Dai's abdication in 1945?
Start of a bedtime prayer
Start of a child's prayer
Start of a children's prayer
Start of a prayer
Situation for a tie?
Situations Like some
Sort of situation
Sure to end badly
Sure to end in failure, as a situation
___ situation (lost cause)
Shout of epiphany
Still at sea?
Still clueless
Still confused
Still in the dark
Still lacking knowledge
Still oblivious
Still puzzled
Still uninformed
Still without a clue
Start of a typing exercise
Soothing tautonym
Sign on a new business
Sign on a new store
Smiling words from Down Under
Stable or better
Start for "as good a time as any"
Scottish words ox
"Since that's over with ..."
". . . so that's the new info"
SOMNUS, mother of
symbolizes music
Seemingly indecisive poet
Showerheads, e.g.
Supporting role in D&D games, briefly
Salt ___ (hip-hop group)
Salt-__: hip-hoppers
Salt-___ ("Shoop" group)
Salt-___ (rap trio)
Singer of the 2011 Tony Awards opening number "Not Just For Gays Anymore!", to fans
"Says You!" carrier
"Says You!" venue (abbr.)
"Science Friday" airer
"Science Friday" broadcaster
"Science Friday" carrier
"Science Friday" network
"Science Friday" station
"Sunday Puzzle" airer
"Sunday Puzzle" network
'Says You!' airer
'Says You!' broadcaster
Scott Simon's network
Source of the podcast "Rough Translation"
Station for drives and driveway moments
Station on which Will Shortz appears as "Puzzlemaster"
Station putting on "Tiny Desk Concerts"
Steve Inskeep's network
Syndicator to over 1,000 stations
Stereotypical farmers'-market sighting
Sig. certifiers
"Stand and fight" grp.
Second Amdt. supporters
Second Amend. touters
Second Amendment PAC
Second Amendment advocacy gp.
Second Amendment advocacy grp.
Second Amendment advocate (abbr.)
Second Amendment advocates (abbr.)
Second Amendment advocates, for short
Second Amendment backer: Abbr.
Second Amendment citing gp.
Second Amendment defender: Abbr.
Second Amendment focus gp.
Second Amendment grp.
Second Amendment lobby
Second Amendment lobby, briefly
Second Amendment lobby, for short
Second Amendment org.
Second Amendment promoter: Abbr.
Second Amendment rights grp.
Second Amendment rights org.
Second Amendment supporter
Second Amendment supporter (Abbr.)
Second Amendment supporters: Abbr.
Second Amendment-based org.
Second Amendment-supporting grp.
Second Amendment-supporting org.
Sharpshooter's org.
Shooter's group
Shooters' gp.
Shooting Illustrated publisher
Shooting match sponsor, for short
Shooting range org.
Shooting set?
Shootist's org.
Short-lived FDR agency
Short-term foreign visitor, to the IRS
Sight-seeing grp.?
Some New Deal initials
Sporting org. with three million members
Sportsmen's org.
Stock-holding gp.?
Strong D.C. lobby
Supporter of arms, for short
Supporter of the Heller decision, 2008: Abbr.
supporter Amendment 18th state
Successor of the AEC
SLEEP pattern
SLOW wave sleep pattern (abbr.)
Seagoing mil. training group
Ship weights: Abbr.
Service at a hotel where the party never stops?
"Sneakers" org.
"Snowden" org.
"Snowden" org. (just watched this--pretty good!)
SIGINT agcy.
SIGINT collecting agcy.
SIGINT org.
SIGINT-gathering org.
Sea-trade org.
Secret U.S. govt. group
Secret decoder ring?: Abbr.
Secret govt. group
Secret gp.
Secretive D.C. org.
Secretive DOD org.
Secretive PRISM org.
Secretive U.S. gp.
Secretive government org. whose emblem is an eagle atop a key
Secretive govt. branch
Secretive govt. group
Secretive govt. grp.
Secretive govt. org.
Secretive group, initially
Secretive org. hidden (appropriately) in this puzzle's longest answers
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