Letter S
STRIVE for (Goth.)
saddle blanket
Semihard Swiss cheese
Semihard cheese first made in Prussia
Semihard yellow cheese
Semihard, light yellow cheese
Semihard, mild cheese
Sovetsk cheese, formerly
Sovetsk, to a Berliner
SHOOT rubbish
Set askew
Set on the bias
Shift, as one's head
Slant somewhat
Slight slope
Sports event of King Arthur's time.
Start to fall, perhaps
Steering wheel option
Steering-wheel option
Sudden game ending
Shortened a pinball game
Slanty
Soon-to-be loser at pinball
someone who engages in a tilt or joust
Spotted sandpipers
Soil's condition
Soil's growth potential
Some awnings
Starts to fall
Squares off against
"SNL" alum Meadows
"Sweeney Todd" film director Burton
*SNL actor who played the Ladies Man
STATE's Congressman ___ Johnson
San Antonio NBA star Duncan
Secretary Geithner
Self-help guru Ferriss
Senator Kaine
Senator Kaine of Virginia
Senator Scott from South Carolina
Silicon Valley successor of Steve
Singer McGraw
Short form of Timothy
Son of Bob Cratchit
South Carolina senator Scott
South Dakota senator Johnson
Sportscaster McCarver
Sportscaster Ryan
Spurs star Duncan
Steve's successor at Apple
Style guru Gunn
Suspect #3
___ Simpson, Southern Open champ: 1985
Santa of the screen
Santa player in "The Santa Clause"
small city in South Canterbury, New Zealand
Small pastry shell.
small pastry shell for creamy mixtures of minced foods
Shout from a lumberjack
Ship's ribs
Sound characteristic
Small tambourine
sung to the accompaniment of the timbrel
Sound qualities
Saharan trading center: Var.
Steve Jobs's successor at Apple
Star of "Clue"
"So Little ___.”
"Stop the game!"
"Stop! Turn your papers over"
"___ shall unfold what plaited cunning hides": Shak.
Smartwatch display
Something cons do
Something kept at football games
Something often killed
Something to mark
Something you might need to kill
Sprinter's stat
Sprinter's statistic
Stat of interest to a competitive crossword solver
Stopwatch measurement
Stopwatch reading
Sundial offering
Something taken for meditation
Soul searcher's need
Stress case's desire
Subject of an ancient adage.
Situation about to cause disaster
Something just waiting to go off
Something to be punched
Something to punch
"Spring back" or "fall ahead" event
"Spring forward" and "fall back" events, and a hint to the starred clues' answers
Some people punch it at work
Salma Hayek film of 2000
Schedule limitations, hiding urban transit
Sci-fi movie of 1994
Situation for one on a deadline
Start of an "entertaining" adage
Start of a pesky quip
Sinatra "As ___ By"
Second or hour, e.g.
Start of a timely definition
sundial
Some sports officials
Showing a flower blooming, say
Sped-up shots of flowers blooming or clouds passing, perhaps
Seth Thomas, hardly ever
Source of many book series
Sporting restriction of a sort
Standardized-test feature
Sequential list of events
Social media feeds
Suitability to the moment
Something you might wish you could take back?
Sci-fi devices
Saying at the onset of wrinkles (Part 1)
Start of a quip by humorist Red Green
Something an aloof person might not give you
Second-hand item, perhaps?
Second-hand items?
S.A.T. sight
Sandglass
Scrabble players' device
Secondhand item
Security lighting setting
Siri might be asked to set one
Soft-boiler's need
Sometimes egg-shaped kitchen gadget
Source of ticking
Speed chess need
Staple of quiz bowls
Stop watch.
Stopwatch
Stopwatch or hourglass
Stopwatch, e.g.
Stopwatch, for example
Stopwatch, for one
Stove gadget
Setups for marathon finish lines
Ski race equipment
Some board game equipment
Some meet officials
Some track officals
Some track officials
Speed-chess accessories
Stop watches.
Stop-watches.
Stopwatch users
Stopwatches, e.g.
Stopwatches, for example
Stopwatches, sand clocks, etc.
Sixth word of "A Tale of Two Cities"
Some athletic records
Something New York and Los Angeles each have
Sprint results
Sprinter's stats
Square where the words in this puzzle's dropping balls may be heard at the end of a song's first verse
Swim meet statistics
Shortcut or lifehack
Shortcut, hopefully
Stitch, perhaps
something that saves time
Shortcuts
Shortcuts, e.g.
Shortcuts, in a way.
Some life hacks
Summer place, maybe
Some vacation digs
School specializing in multiplication?
Series of beeps on an old radio broadcast, e.g.
Schedule component, and what the answers to the starred clues literally contain
Songfest assignment
Sit around for 20 minutes with a stopwatch, waiting for some arboreal mammals to finish the 100-yard dash?
Sunrise and sunset
"So much more than you even said!"
Specific period
Southern newspaper that William Faulkner once contributed to, with "The"
*Scene of an annual ball-dropping
*Site of an annual ball drop
Scene of New Year's Eve revelry.
Site of New Year's Eve celebration
Summer Festival area.
Some arithmetic to memorize
Some memorization in arithmetic class
Subjects of some grade school posters
Scrolling TikTok, to some
Satellite schedules.
Speedy marching rate
Sci-fi odyssey for a New York player
Sci-fi premise
Sci-fi trope enabled by a TARDIS (or a hot tub)
Science fiction concept depicted three times in this puzzle
Solution for someone who's stuck in the past?
Subject of an H.G. Wells novel
Subject of the Jake Gyllenhaal movies "Donnie Darko" and "Source Code"
Sci-fi TV show of 1992-94
Segment of this puzzle's race
Some Tour de France stages
Speedway tests
"Slow and steady wins the race, but ..."
"Shine On, Harvest Moon" tune
*Stupid show from a cable TV giant
"Star Trek" anomaly
Sci-fi anomaly
Sci-fi passage
Sci-fi phenomenon that could change history
Sci-fi subject, or a 1970's dance
Sci-fi travel aid
Sci-fi travel medium
Science fiction device
Sci-fi phenomena for space travelers
Sci-fi travel conveniences
Seiko alternative
Single thing that all China shares
Said of a fraidy cat
Shy song by Angela Moyra?
Shyness or lack of confidence
SPEED control
Speed regulation
Strategist's consideration
supposedly the secret of great comedy
Stopwatch info
South Dakota's junior senator ... who also serves as an ABC News correspondent
"South Park" boy who basically only says his name
Shakespeare's "___ of Athens"
Shakespeare's Athenian
Shakespeare's Athenian hermit
Shakespeare's Athenian misanthrope
Shakespeare's man of Athens
Shakespeare's misanthrope
Shakespeare's misanthropic Athenian
Shakespeare's testy Athenian
Shakespeare's title Athenian
Shakespeare's unwise Athenian philanthropist who goes broke
Shakespearean Athenian
Shakespearean cave dweller
Shakespearean misanthrope
Shakespearean nobleman
Shakespearean spendthrift
Shakespearean meerkat or Athenian misanthrope
Shoulder muscles of a Shakespeare title character? (4,10)
Shakespeare's hens
Shakespearean character ended in a deadlock?
Sea bordering Australia's Top End
Southeast Asian island
Strategic island N. W. of Darwin.
Strategic island east of Java.
___ Sea (arm of the Indian Ocean off northwestern Australia)
___ Sea (body north of Australia)
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