Letter S
Second-largest state
Setting of three presidential libraries
Short-lived republic founded in 1836
Single star state
Site of Jim Hogg County
Site of the Palo Duro Canyon
Spindletop's state
State home to the world's largest (you can probably just stop reading there) gingerbread house
State number 28
State on the Rio Grande
State since 1845
State that celebrated the 100th anniversary of the discovery of oil
State that was a republic
State that was once a country
State that was once a nation
State that was once a republic
State where Fritos originated
State where Juneteenth originated
State where South by Southwest takes place
State where the Cotton Bowl is held
State whose highest point is Guadalupe Peak
State whose motto is "Friendship"
State with 20 area codes
State with 254 counties
State with a near-total abortion ban that went into effect in September, 2021
State with a red, white and blue flag
State, capital Austin
___-size (big)
Site of the George Bush Presidential Library
Smoky Southern fare often served with brisket and ribs
Seasoned smoked beef brisket or pork ribs, e.g.
Slow-smoked Southern grub
Some slow-cooked cuisine, for short
Some southern cookin'
Southern cookin' sometimes served "cowboy style"
Stevie Ray Vaughan blues cover with the line "I'm standin' out in the rain"
Speakeasy Queen
Stately poker game?
Stud's relative put something unknown in tea author Aleichem is swallowing down (5,6)
Short outfield hit.
State police member.
Steakhouse bread offering
Steakhouse side order
side dish spread with butter and garlic
Steel sentry at sea.
Some spicy cuisine
Southwestern cuisine
Scanner input, often
Scholarly book
School Book after Daniel
School reference
Schoolbook, or much of its contents
Scriptural passage
Scripture passage
Scripture verse
Seed of a sermon.
Semester-start purchase
Send a brief message
Send a high-tech message
Send a high-tech message to
Send a message to, in a way
Send a message to, these days
Send a message via cell phone
Send a message with one's thumbs
Send a modern-day message
Send a phone message
Send a phone message to
Send a quick message
Send a quick message, perhaps
Send a quick update, in a way
Send a smiley, say
Send an emoji, e.g.
Send an emoji, say
Send emojis, say
Serious book
Sermon inspiration
Sermon passage
Sermon starter
Sermon's basis
Sermon's inspiration
Sermon's preface
Sermonizer's source
Short communication
Short passage of Scripture
Small-screen reading
Smart watch missive
Smartphone receipt
Something to castigate
Something to cut and paste
Sort of cell-phone message
Source material
Speech contents
Speech copy
Speech's body
Sprint relay?
Start-of-semester purchase
Student reading
Student's book
Student's buy
Subject for a sermon
Subject of discourse
Syllabus listing
Some online banners
School tome
Student's reading
Student's resource
Student's sine qua non.
Student's tome
standard book on a particular subject
Subject of a sermon: Fr.
Sent a cell message to
Sent a cell phone message to
Sent a phone message
Sent a phone message to
Sent an emoji, say
Sent messages by phone
Sent messages on a cell phone
Sent messages through a phone
Sent messages, of a sort
Sent some brief words
Something to paste in
Smartphone typist
Some distracted drivers
Simple document sent online
Simple word processing format
Silk or cashmere
SOFT goods
Silk and spandex, for two
Spandex and Lurex
Sending messages, in a way
Sending selfies, say
"Shoot a message my way"
Smartphone user's "Keep in touch"
School purchases
School readings
Schoolbag items
Scripture passages
Sends a message
Sends a message by cell phone
Sends a message to, these days
Sends a message, in a way
Sends a message, nowadays
Sends a mobile message
Sends a note via cell phone
Sends a written message to by cell phone
Sends an iMessage, e.g.
Sends an iMessage, maybe
Sends cell messages
Sends messages, in a way
Sends mobile messages
Smartphone messages
Smartphone messages that aren't emails, IMs, tweets, or Snapchats
Smartphone missives
Sources for sermons
Speech transcripts
Student's armload
Student's backpack burden
Student's lockerful
Students' books
Syllabus listings
STRUCTURAL order
Smooth and rough
Structural quality.
Surface feel
Surface quality
structure, feel, or consistency
Scottish author Josephine
Scottish mystery novelist Josephine
Scottish mystery writer Josephine
Scottish novelist Josephine
Snitched / Throw in the cards
Swing classic from the 1930s often danced by couples
Swaps between accts.
"See ya later, office!"
"So excited for the weekend!"
"So glad the week is almost done!"
"So ready for the weekend!"
Shout after a stressful week
Shout after a tough week
Shout at the end of a workweek
Shout before the weekend
Shout just before a break
Shout of relief
Shouted end-of-the-week letters
Specialized "We made it!"
Start-of-the-weekend letters
Slangy article
Snoop Dogg's "Paid ___ Cost to Be da Boss"
Spoken word artist Theresa ___ S.O.N.G.B.I.R.D.
Sen. Cochran
Sen. Cochran of Mississippi
Senator Cochran
Senator Cochran of Miss.
Senator Cochran of Mississippi
senator Cochran Mississippi city
Saint Jude.
Senator Cochran and jazz great Jones
SE Asian
STRETCHES combining acupressure and yoga positions to focus on specific points on the body
Shan Lao and ____
Siam.
Siamese now
Siamese, after 1939
Siamese, nowadays
Siamese, today
Simamese
Som tam cuisine
Some Asian cuisine
Some spicy fare
Songkhla dweller
Southeast Asian cuisine
Spender of bahts
Spicy Southeast Asian cuisine
Spicy ethnic food
Spicy food
Spicy take out
Spicy type of food
Subject of King Rama IX
Subject of an Asian monarchy
Sukhumvit Road traveler
Siamese handshakes?
Spiced cold drink made with sweetened condensed milk
Siam today
Siamese descendants
Siamese relatives
Some Bangkok Post readers
Some Mekong River denizens
Some actors in season 3 of "The White Lotus"
Subjects of King Vajiralongkorn
shaped like a thallus, a plant body not differentiated into leaf, stem and root
SELENIUM, constituent of
SILVER, constituent of
"Sweet ___! run softly . . . ": Spenser
"Sweet ___, run softly, till I end my song": Spenser
"Sweet" locale in T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"
Setting of Oxford-Cambridge boat-race.
Setting of the Henley Regatta.
Site of London's annual rowing race
Site of a chase scene in "The World is Not Enough"
Site of the Henley Regatta
"Smarter ___ the average bear"
"Stranger ___ Fiction"
"Stronger ___ dirt"
"Sweeter ___ You" (Ricky Nelson hit)
state of being a thane
Self-destructive instinct
Syllogism, part 2
Syllogism, part 6
SCOTTISH chief
SCOTTISH clan chief
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