Letter S
Shifting particles, in a metaphor about time
Shorelines, often
Sinatra venue in Vegas
Smoothes by rubbing, as furniture.
Smoothes wood
Smoothes, as wood
Smoothes, in a way
Smooths (down)
Smooths a surface
Smooths in a woodshop
Smooths in shop class
Smooths in wood shop
Smooths in woodshop
Smooths in woodworking
Smooths the surface of, as wood
Smooths with an abrasive
Smooths with gritty paper
Smooths with paper, perhaps
Smooths wood
Smooths, as a board
Smooths, as a plank
Smooths, as a shelf
Smooths, as wood
Smooths, like wood
Stuff in hourglasses
Symbol of passing time.
so to speak Time
Shallow water hazard
Small point of land
small point of land created by sand dunes
serpent stars
Smithsonian Institution Building's makeup
Sound quality for George?
Sedimentary materials
Some countertop materials
Sylvester's least favorite quartz-based rocks?
Sahara phenomenon.
Saharan hazard
Scene shifter in the Sahara theatre.
Small shovel, e.g.
Shoes for the desert?
Snack named for an earl
Sometimes-zippered container
Spot to assemble the first parts of the answers to the starred clues
S Y
SABULINE
Stray adopted by Annie
Superstorm of 2012
Strawberry-blondish
Sentimental Tommy's last name.
"Show me a ___ man and I will cure him for you": Jung
Safe and __ (sensible)
Safe and ___.
Safe companion
Safe's companion
Safe's partner
Sensibly composed
Showing good sense
Sober-minded
Sound Upstairs
Sound in mind
Sound in one's head
Sound in the head
Sound of mind
Sound of thinking
Sound-minded
Stable upstairs?
Still going upstairs?
Showing better judgment
Showing more normal judgment
Sounder of mind
Superlatively rational
Superlatively reasonable
___ Stadium (Georgia Bulldogs' home)
Sitcom set in a junkyard
Sitcom's Fred and Lamont
Setting of 2019's "Always Be My Maybe," for short
So-called "Paris of the West"
Sent out a tweet
Serenaded
Shouted with joy.
Showed disloyalty
Showed off one's pipes
Sold out or belted out
Solfaed
Spilled everything
Spilled to the cops
Squealed on the bad guys
Squealed to the cops
Squealed, gang style
Squealed, so to speak
Succumbed to being grilled
STONE breastwork round hollow
___ song (caroled)
sangar
SANGA
Spiced drink common in the tropics.
Sweetened red wine
spiced drink similar to sangria
sweetened red wine and orange or lemon juice with soda water
she challenged Gregory Pincus to develop a birth control pill
SOUTH African witchdoctor
SPANISH bleeding
SPANISH drink of red wine with lemonade
SPANISH red wine with lemonade
SPANISH wine and fruit juice
SPANISH wine drink diluted and spiced
Spanish beverage
Spanish drink of red wine and fruit
Spanish drink of red wine, sugar, and fruit
Spanish for "bloodletting"
Spanish punch
Spanish wine beverage
Spanish wine concoction
Spanish wine punch
Strong punch
Spicy fruit beverage often used as a tequila chaser
Spicy, fruity tequila chaser
SANGUINARIUS
slaughtering
SANHEDRIM
__ Sticks: drain-cleaning aid
___ Sticks (drain deodorizer)
Sterile, likely
Sleep in a clean bed?
Sensibleness
Sound powers of mind
Soundness of judgment
Soundness of mind
Soundness of reason
Soundness, to Skinner
Sweet reasonableness.
so to speak Marbles game
state of having a normal healthy mind
Site of Houston's decisive victory
Site of Sam Houston victory.
Santa Clara Co. address
Santurce's city
Site of a famous 1898 battle during the Spanish-American War in Cuba
Site of a key battle of the Spanish-American War
"Sighted sub, ___ same"
"Sighted sub, ___ same": Mason
Scored, as a free throw
Sent to the bottom
Sent to the ocean floor
Settled gradually
Settled into a beanbag chair, say
Settled to the bottom
Succumbed to quicksand
Suffered the Titanic's fate
Sponsor of "I Love Lucy"
Some after-dinner quaffs
Some decaf orders
Some decafs
Some instant coffees
Slowly became clear
Started to make sense
Sierra Leone's captured rebel chief Foday ___
Site of Thornton Wilder's bridge
Smallest member of the Council of Europe
Smallest republic in world.
Squaw's mate.
SPANISH health
Sound, in Seville
Sound, in a saying by the poet Juvenal
Seat of Marin County, Calif.
"__ souci"
-- serif (font choice)
Serif or souci preceder
Souci or serif lead-in
__ serif typeface
__ souci (carefree)
__-serif (type style)
___ serif (font option)
___ serif (plain type style)
___ souci (carefree): French.
___ souci (free from worry)
___ souci (without care).
___-serif (font type)
___-serif (font)
Stark daughter played by Sophie Turner on "Game of Thrones"
Stark sister
Stark who was crowned Queen of the North on "Game of Thrones"
Stark who was crowned queen in "Game of Thrones"
___ Stark, role for which Sophie Turner was Emmy-nominated
Style of typeface
Source of "avatar" and "guru"
Source of "nirvana" and "mantra"
Source of nirvana?
Source of the word "avatar"
Source of the word "karma"
Source of the word "mantra"
Start of some Italian church names
SPANISH saint, feminine
Sack toter
Saint Nick
Seasonal cookie eater
Seasonal delivery driver?
Seasonal department store job.
Seasonal figure
Seasonal gadabout
Seasonal gift giver
Seasonal globetrotter
Seasonal inflatable
Seasonal list maker
Seasonal mall hiree
Seasonal sack toter
Seasonal sleigh driver
Seasonal sleigh rider
Seasonal sleigh-rider
Seasonal store worker
Seasonal temp
Seasonal temp job
Seasonal temp position
Secret ___ (seasonal office game)
Sight at the end of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Sledder in the sky
Sleigh driver
Sleigh driver of note
Sleigh ride figure
Speaker of the cheer in question
Start for Barbara
Start of three California county names
Stranger often sat on by children
Subject of Virginia's famous query.
Subject of a famed 1897 editorial
Subject of an 1897 query from Virginia
Symbol of Christmas.
Seat of California's Orange County
Seat of Orange County, Calif.
Satan, for one?
Source of hot air in Hollywood?
Southern California blowhards?
Seabiscuit's last race place
Site of a Seabiscuit victory
Southern California racetrack
Self-styled "Napoleon of the West"
Seductive Christmas classic
Song whose subject is encouraged to "hurry down the chimney tonight"
Sometime TV soap setting
"Saintly" Silicon Valley city
Silicon Valley city ("Where Are the Children?")
Site of the last battle of the Cuban Revolution
Season's visitor
Seasonal characte
Sponsor of annual "giveaway" program.
Symbol of benevolence
Seasonal wear.
Some annual pub crawls
SUV featured in ads during 2013's Super Bowl
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