Letter S
Shrink, maybe
Sports-team personnel
Setting for many New Yorker cartoons
Shrink's specialty
Swedish massage
Some controversial airplane passengers
Spot that might make people feel comfortable?
Sinatra's cronies
Source of disillusion for a corporate drudge
Subject of a quip
SINHALESE Buddhism, form of
Somerset Maugham novel
"So __!" (I told you so!)
"So ___ we were . . ."
"Stop right ___"
"____ she goes" (Miss America)
Second word of a Cohan song.
Shout from a pointer
Shout made while pointing
Solacing word
Soothing exclamation.
Start of many a limerick
Start of many limericks
Starter of limericks
Sympathetic exclamation.
"Step to ___," old song
"___ smiles that make us happy . . . "
Start of quote by 54A
Start of a statesman's statement
Start of an insult by Herman J. Mankiewicz
Sometimes a judge speaks off this.
Snoopy foe
Snoopy's aerial adversary
Short-lived 1986 TV sitcom
Stendhal title, abridged
Steinbeck novella published in 1937
Sea novel by James Fenimore Cooper
Sudan's northeastern border
Symbol denoting "ergo" in math proofs
"Silly me, rambling again!"
Shakespeare reviews hypertext? ("Othello" III, 4)
Start of an Edgard Varese quotation
Significance of this puzzle's circled letters (gotcha again!)
Star Wars advice: only action, not an attempt
Start of William Osler quote
Shout while pointing
'-- still time'
"Spider-Man 3" actress Russell
"___ Small Hotel," 1936 song
Saint known as the Little Flower of Jesus
Saint of October 15
Sainted Carmelite nun
Sancho Panza's wife, Maria ___.
She's repurposed heaters
Spanish holy woman, 1515-82
Spanish saint and mystic
Start of a cynicism about people
Saint called "The Little Flower"
Sainte-____ (Montreal suburb)
She was canonized in 1925
SITTER INSTRUCTION #3
Song lyric famously repeated by The La's
Saw around a locker room?
Sports axiom refuted by this puzzle
Sports squad slogan
Start of a somewhat needy quip
Successful gem seeker's cry?
Soothing phrase
Shortly after that
Start of a Ralph Waldo Emerson quote
Start of an Emerson quote
Start of an R.W. Emerson quote
Start of a familiar phrase meaning "Once upon a time," often used in tales
She wanted to be a historian but ___
Site of Venice with a famous bridge
Site of Venice's oldest bridge
Series about the Mideast economy?
Sushi chef's comment?
Storied Robin Hood target
"Stay on ___ side, sister . . . "
Stravinsky ballet performed in Sydney?
Seasonal Igor Stravinsky ballet
Seasonal Stravinsky piece
Stravinsky masterpiece
Stravinsky work
Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du Printemps"
Sheridan comedy: 1775
St. Tropez's location
Stoppard play that made money abroad?
sensitivity to various degrees of heat and cold
Space for growth
Site for hosting winter pajamas pictures?
Science course dealing with entropy, familiarly
Science of heat and other forms of energy
Subject for a contemporary scientist.
Soup holder, at times
Short vacation advocate
"Spare ___, spoil the child" (ooh... blah)
Some say it shouldn't be spared
Something not to be spared, in a saying
Something to be spared
study of mammals
Series about fledgling police officers
Special knowledge, so to speak
System, so to speak
Song that begins "Some say love"
Song with the line "I say love, it is a flower, and you, it's only seed"
Star vehicle for Midler
Setting for some famous knights
Start of a cat haiku
Some everyday articles
Something to hit at night
Soldier comic strip
Simon Templar, familiarly
{/She remembered having a high-school crush on a handsome, dark-haired boy with .../}
Something done to death
Sleep-inducing legend
Sleepy time visitor
Steve McQueen film of '66
Sad Sack's tormentor, in comics
Something a drunkard is liable to hit
Sources for synonyms
Supply of Roget's books
Synonym books
Synonym sources
SYNONYMS, book of
Speechwriter's reference
Synonym book
Synonym-loaded reference
Shellfish survey?
" . . . stays ___ couriers . . . "
"Softly with ___ Songs" (Roberta Flack best-of album)
"Some of __ Days" (Tucker theme)
"Some of ___ Days"
"Some of ___ Days," 1910 song
Stevie Wonder's "___ Three Words"
Salt's surroundings
Santiago's milieu in a Hemingway novel
Somewhere beyond --- ...
SpongeBob lives under it
Start of a nostalgic quote
"She sells seashells by ___"
Sinatra tune of '61
Scholarly papers.
Scholarly works
Scholastic propositions
Senior writings
Seniors' projects
Some papers
Shakespeare's Duke of Athens
Slayer of Minotaur
Slayer of the Minotaur
son of Aegeus
Sequel about the Dwarfs' reaction to a rash?
Song for the ovine Valentino?
Stephen King novel of 1977
Setting with hobbit-holes
Stalwart plumber's credo?
Saw backstage
Show on which all nine celebrities have guest-starred as themselves
Show since 12/17/1989 whose five main family members are hidden in this puzzle's other long across answers
Six-Day War hotbed
Spellbinding "Batman" villainess played by Joan Collins
SCHOLARLY essay
Scholarly proposition
Senior article
Senior paper
Senior project
Something that shouldn't be indefensible
Something to be defended
Student's dissertation
Sentence that often appears in the first paragraph of an essay
Start of an unhealthy quip
"Spend as much as you like!"
Sequel to "Dad's Awakening"
Story about Easter?
Stop #4 on a tour of Paris
Savage-breast soother
Sherlock Holmes story featuring a deadly serpent and a mysterious phrase
Serious player
Sock and buskin man.
Spider-Man's favorite band?
Satisfied film editor's comment?
Satisfying thing to hit
Stay in the shadows and not in ___
Site of Mount Olympus
Scenery for Newman's con?
Some products of a 1991 split, informally
Subject of annual speech.
Slick comedy about a pair of fumigators?
Some investors play it
Sharon's favorite time?
Stolen treasure, headline of 1950–51.
"Sweet Neo Con" band, informally
"_____," stated Tom mournfully
Simon play
Simon title
Start of Alan Kay quote
Scratch this
Saint-Saëns cello piece
Saint-Saëns work with a memorable cello solo
Subway and bus system of Boston, familiarly
Symbol for an unknown angle in trigonometry
Second letter in the Greek for "Athens"
Sweater letter, perhaps
Symbol for a plane angle, in geometry
Symbol for an angle in math
Symbol for an angle in trigonometry
Symbol for death in ancient Athens
Symbol in geometry
Symbol in trigonometry
Symbol used for potential temperature in meteorology
Symbol used in polar coordinates
Something you might put drinks on
Soft-drink-sponsored sitcom of the '60s?
Server moving among diners, performing close-up tricks
Something parents might give a teenager, colloquially
Source of long-playing musical.
Some campus sisters
Sorority members such as Ann-Margret and Laura Bush
Stubborn person getting on another's nerves?
Start of the joke's answer
Something for a fan to support
Scam involving nonstick pans?
*Shakespeare play set on an enchanted island
Shakespeare play featuring Ariel
Shakespeare play featuring Prospero
Shakespeare's 1611 play
Short-term worker who causes utter disaster?
Sweet Chaplin persona?
Sinatra film of '55
Some really rotten garage services?
Subject of 1905 paper.
Skinny, dejected football player?
Sculpture thought to depict Dante observing the circles of Hell
Shunners of evil
Stuffy trio?
Slapstick comedy team
Stars of "Have Rocket, Will Travel"
Song B.B. King is known for
Sea captain's concern
Shared beliefs ... like this puzzle's circled four-letter words?
Strong family connections, idiomatically
"Someone stole our cash box!"?
Start of a definition of "microsecond"
Signs of ___.
Something you evidently have.
Start of a quote on how to avoid a recession
START OF A GEORGE ADE QUIP
Start of a weary quip
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