Letter S
Some offspring
Some principal heirs
Some progeny
Some relatives (not, strictly speaking, part of the puzzle's theme)
Some scions
Start of a D. H. Lawrence title
Steinway & __
Steinway & __ (piano company)
Steinway & ___ (piano maker)
Steinway & ___ (piano manufacturer)
Steinway and __
Steinway's partners?
sonsie
Sartre's "Les Jeux ___ Faits"
She wrote "Under the Sign of Saturn"
Susan ___, writer-photographer
Susan who wrote "Illness as Metaphor"
Susan who wrote "In America"
Susan who wrote "The Volcano Lover"
Susan who wrote, "The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth"
"Spider-Man" movie company
"Spider-Man" series studio
"Spider-Man" studio
Screenwriter Levien of "State Fair"
Sophia, to a Russian
Sophy, in Moscow.
Service that lets you buy a PlayStation quickly?
Start of a bonding moment
Some CDs, stereos and smartphones
Some Japanese-made TVs
Some TVs and cameras
Some headphones and cameras
Some sets
Some speakers
"Shining Girls" actress Phillipa
Sault Sainte Marie.
Sault St. Marie.
Sault Ste. Marie canal.
Sault Ste. Marie's __ Locks
Sault Ste. Marie, with "the"
Sault, to a Michigander
Scottish words sow
St. Mary's River area (with "the").
Subject of the 2009 documentary "You Don't Know Jack"
Superior–Huron canals
sow Scottish words
"Strike Up the Band" song: 1930
Sometime today
Sometime today, say
Staller's word of promise
she will arrive presently
Someone from Enid
Squatter in 1889
State Nicknames Oklahoma
State name of Oklahoma.
Senators Inhofe and Nickles, for two
Some students in Oklahoma
She gives Woody a woody
*Sweep ... coal ... Santa
Santa soiler
Santa spoiler
Santa suit soiler
Santa suit stainer
Santa sullier
Santa's bane?
Santa's bootblack?
Santa's chimney problem.
Santa's cleaning headache
Santa's coat?
Santa's laundry problem
Santa's laundry stains
Santa's laundry woe
Santa's problem
Santa's smudge
Santa's soil
Santa's suit covering, maybe
Santa's suit soiler
Santa's suit stainer
Santa's washday problem
Santa-suit stain
Sartorial concern for Santa
Schmutz on Santa
Schmutz on Santa's coat
Schmutz on a chimney sweep's face
Smog stuff
Smoke byproduct
Smoke deposit.
Smoke residue
Smokestack buildup
Smoky grime
Smudge on Dick Van Dyke in "Mary Poppins"
Some particulates
Something sweeps sweep
Spot for Santa
Spot on Santa
Stack black
Stack blackener
Stack buildup
Stain on Santa
Stain on Santa's coat, you'd think
Stain on Santa's suit
Stainer of Santa's coat
Stains on a red suit?
Substance from coal smoke.
Sweep spots?
Sweep stuff
Sweep's coat
Sweep's coating
Sweep's collection
Sweep's concern
Sweep's cover
Sweep's dusting
Sweep's removal
Sweep's schmutz
Sweep's substance
Sweep's sweepings
Sweep's sweeps
Sweep's target, perhaps
Sweeping matter
"Sayer" attachment
Sayer starter
Start for "sayer"
Starter for "fast" or "sayer"
Starter for "sayer"
Sing a lullaby to, e.g.
Sing a lullaby to, say
Said "there, there" to
state of becoming covered with soot
Smoke residues
Smokey deposits
Smoky chimney deposits
Smoky deposits
Smudges, in a way
Soils with carbonic powder.
Soils with chimney grime
Stuff in a chimney?
"Spirited Away" creature that sheds black dust
Studio Ghibli's animated fuzz ball
Smokestack-like
Soiled, in a way
"Special" or "black" things
Standard procedure, in shorthand
SOAKED thing
Sample sauce with bread
Secondary reward
Singing voice: Abbr.
Small bribe
Soak (up), as gravy
Soak (up), as sauce
Soak in liquid
Soak up gravy
Soak with liquid
Soaked biscuit, e.g.
Something for Cerberus
Something given (asd a concession)
Something given to pacify
Something that pacifies.
Soup-soaked bread, say
Spineless wimp
Sponge (up), as gravy
Soup, in Sevilla
Soup: Sp.
School year, for short
Second year man, for short
Second year student, for short
Second year student, shortly
Second yr. of high school
Second yr. student
Second-class person, informally?
Second-class student?
Second-year co-ed
Second-year scholar.
Second-year student
Second-year student, briefly
Second-year student, familiarly
Second-year student, for short
Second-year student, shortly
Second-year, for short
Second-year: Abbr.
Second-yr. collegian
Second-yr. student
Short school year?
Sr., two years ago
Student possibly maybe looking forward to a Zoom PSAT: Abbr.
Student who might consider visiting colleges: Abbr.
Student who's no longer a frosh
Student, for short.
Student: colloq.
Superior of a frosh.
Soccer star Smith
Soccer star Smith who won Olympic gold in 2024
Spain's queen
She famously had a choice
She had a choice in literature
Streep's "Choice" role
Styron heroine
Styron's "___ Choice"
Streep classic
Styron best seller
Styron novel
Specious argument
Skillful reasoner
Specious arguer
Superficial thinker
Subtly fallacious reasoning.
Superficial reasoners
Second or tenth, in a way
STUDENT in second year
Second-year man.
student in second year at college
Second-year pro's bad luck
Superstition that a rookie's second season will fail
Second-rate second effort
Sch. students
Second yr. students
Second-class citizens?: Abbr.
Second-class people?
Second-year coeds
Second-year coll. students
Second-year collegians, for short
Second-year collegians, informally
Second-year students
Second-year students, briefly
Second-year students, for short
Second-yr. college students
Seniors' juniors, briefly
Second-year students, informally
Some J.V. players
Some PSAT takers
Some campus returnees
Some campus returnees, briefly
Some collegians
Some high-school students
Some major declarers, informally
Some students, briefly
Some students, for short
Some undergrads
Second-year elective?
Small drink: S. Africa.
State of deep sleep
Sleep-inducing medicaments
Soaked up with bread
Sills and others
Sills, Price and others
Some Italian singers
She's always high
She's in the high C areas
Soaring performer
Surname of an HBO crime family
singer with the highest female or boy's voice
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