Letter S
Second woman to receive the Mark Twain Prize
Steelers coach Mike
Smith, who gave the Black Power salute at the '68 Olympics
Star of silent oaters
Smothers brother
Sinatra's boss after James
Singer of the 1969 #1 hit 'Dizzy'
Some are heard on Broadway
Some were heard on Broadway
shaft formed by the action of water on limestone or volcanic rock
Salutation on a May Hallmark card
Start of some Hallmark cards
Song sung by an orphan
Song that begins "The sun'll come out"
Shakespeare's promise to Elizabethans?
Singer with the Heartbreakers
Super Bowl halftime performer between Prince and Bruce Springsteen
Singer's pocket money?
Sociopathic role for Alain Delon (1960), Matt Damon (1999) and John Malkovich (2002)
Seaver and Sneva
Selleck and Cruise
Selleck and Seaver
Shepard and Brokaw
Shoe company that donates one pair to a poor child for every pair they sell
Shoe company unrelated to the personal-care product company
Smothers and others
Some cats or turkeys
Some drums, informally
Some fowls
Some gobblers
Some night howlers
Some turkeys and cats
Some turkeys and tabbies
Some turkeys, and the makeup of the four theme answers
Strutting turkeys
Supersonic airplanes retired by the U.S. Navy in 2006
Swift and Cruise
Swift and Jones
Swift and Thumb
Sylvester et al.
SIBERIAN place of banishment, former
SIBERIAN river transhipment center/centre
Siberian city established under Boris Godunov
Shoe aimed at an alley feline? (or cyclotron missing a piece)
Stormy end
Seaver's nickname
Short story character?
Small English bird
Small New Zealand bird named for its resemblance to the chickadee family
small European bird that eats insects and seeds
Small birds, in British lingo
Snare drum neighbor
Snare's drum-kit neighbor
Snareless drum
Sound effect in "Emperor Jones."
Source of an oater long-distance call?
Source of oater drumming
"Skip __ Lou"
"Skip __ Lou": kids' song
SURGICAL operation (comb. form)
Scythian queen who killed Cyrus the Great, shoved his decapitated head into a wineskin filled with blood, and said "I warned you that I would quench your thirst for blood, and so I shall" (possibly apocryphal but incredibly badass)
Spicy, sour soup
SUFFIX denoting town
Scale word
Score X 100 pounds
Semi capacity unit
Semi unit
Semi weight measure
Semi weight unit
Serious poundage
Ship capacity unit
Ship unit or shipping unit
Ship's displacement unit.
Ship's unit of weight
Ship's weight unit
Ship's weight unit, perhaps
Ship-size unit
Shipping measure
Short or gross measure
Short or long
Short or long measure
Short or long weight
Short or long weight unit
Significant amount
Significant amount or weight
Simple conclusion?
Simple ending
Simple suffix
Steel measure
Stunning amount of bricks
Style, Elle-style
Style, French style
Style, French-style
Style, in France
Style: French.
Suffix for simple
Suffix meaning village.
Suffix with simple or single
sound pitch
Sculptured medallion, in Italian art.
Shade of color
Sang with Toni and Tony
Saxophonist's asset
Scrambled note
Sculpt, at the gym
Shade of a color
Signal to begin speaking
Signal to begin speaking, perhaps
Signal to record a message
Signal to start speaking, perhaps
Signal to start talking
Singer's pitch
Skin quality
Soap brand with cocoa butter
Soap made by Dial
Soften, with "down"
Sol is one
Something for a subordinate to watch
Something that might be policed online
Something to watch with your teachers?
Something you might watch with your parents
Sound character
Sound from an answering machine
Sound heard before dialing
Sound or voice quality
Speaker's quality
Speech quality
Speech subtlety
Star in "Uncle Vanya."
Star of "Oh, Men, Oh, Women!"
Steady sound
Step of a diatonic scale.
Stereo owner's concern
Strad feature
Strengthen up
Strengthen, as muscles
Synonym and anagram of "note"
Synth output
Synthesizer sound
sound Dial
sound with reference to its pitch, volume, etc
Swingers with pickups
Sunscreen brand since the 1940s
Sculpted, as muscles
Shaped (up)
Showing good results from a workout regimen
Slightly tinted
Softened (with "down")
Strengthened, with"up"
Stronger, now
Softened, as rhetoric
Stopped being so loud
Strengthened muscles
Strengthened, as muscles
Sans vocal modulation
Sound pattern in some languages
Sound unit found in many Asian languages
*Symphonic composition that evokes another art form
Soapy piece of orchestral music
Speciality of Liszt or Sibelius.
Story-telling orchestral piece
Story-telling symphonic work
Strauss's "Don Juan," e.g.
Symphonic piece that tells a story
Some Strauss works
Symphonic stories
Skin bracer
Skin care lotion
Skin care or printing product
Skin cosmetic
Skin improver
Skin refresher
Skin-care application
Skin-care lotion
Skin-cleansing product
Skin-firming substance
Some cartridge filler
Step in a beauty routine
Skin care astringent
Step two in many skin-care routines
Stuff in a cartridge
Stuff in copy machines
solution Office aide (abbr.)
supply Office aide (abbr.)
Sequence in music
Serial music sequence
Skin conditioners
Skin cosmetics
Skin creams
Some Xerox supplies
Some beauty supplies
Some cartridges' contents
Some pore minimizers
Staples staples
Scale composition
Shapes up, as muscles
Softens, with "down"
Some are pear-shaped
Some color variations
Sounds or colors
Stereo owners' concerns
Subdues, with "down"
Strengthens and tightens
/s for "sarcastic" and /srs for "serious," in online lingo
Simple flute
Small, simple flute
Stylish: Var.
Secret Chinese society
Secret Chinese society, in the U.S.
Secret society in Chinatown
Secret society of a kind.
Secret society of a sort
Seize with a certain tool
Seize, as a hunk of salad
Serve sugar cubes
Serve sugar, in a way
Sinic society.
South Pacific kingdom with a namesake trench
Salote's realm.
South Pacific Kingdom
South Pacific island group country
South Pacific island kingdom
South Pacific monarchy
South Pacific nation with about 100,000 people
South Seas kingdom
South Pacific dance?
South Pacific 18-wheelers?
Served, as spaghetti
Salad bar accessory
Salad bar grabbers
Salad bar implement
Salad bar pair
Salad bar sight
Salad grabbers
Salad handlers
Salad maker's need
Salad seizer
Salad seizers
Salad server
Salad servers
Salad tossers
Salad-bar implements
Salad-bar utensil
Salad-serving implements
Salad-serving tool
Seizer's helper
Set of flippers?
Some picker-uppers
Steak turners
Sugar cube holder
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