Letter S
Some deli slices
Some wealth
Sourdough e.g.
Sourdough or rye
Sourdough, for example
Sourdough, for one
Staff of life
Subject of a recent strike in N. Y.
Sustenance, so to speak
Something often sliced and toasted for breakfast
solid food
soup garnish
Source of livelihood
Stomach: Slang
Stomachs, slangily
*Surface for slicing rye, say
Size standard on "What's My Line?"
Standard of size, a la "What's My Line?"
Serrated kitchen implement
Serrated kitchen tool
Spreader of the theme answers
Sight of 1930's
St. Louis Cardinal official.
Small dish for rolls
*Starchy and eggy dessert
Short and sweet endings
Soup accompaniment
Side to side measurement
Side-to-side distance
Side-to-side measure
Side-to-side measurement
Scholarly quality
Screw pine of Australia.
Source of food in Tahiti.
Source of family funds
Shatter or pause in activity
STOPPAGE of work for rest and smoke
Scattershot in a game room?
School vacation
Short holiday
Short recess
Short vacation
Shout from those huddled together
Snap, crack or pop, maybe
Social blunder: Slang.
Start a billiards game
Start a billiards match
Start a game of pool
Start a rack
Start a snooker game
Start of a billiards game
Start playing!
Stop for an intermission
scrunch
splinter
shattery
Smashed article
Some grocery store loses
Some grocery store losses
Secede from the Union, e.g.
Secede from the Union, for example
secession
Staple stripperwear with built-in slits
Starts of races.
Share a meal
Smashing line from Tennyson?
Sidewalk performer
Street entertainers with boomboxes
Street moves since the '70s ... and what the black squares on rows 3, 5, 11 and 13 do
Song sections during which elements separate ... and what you must do in two areas of this grid
Seashore feature
Seaside sight.
Swell of the sea.
Start of a trucker's communication
surf
Show a zero balance
Serving in a bowl with milk
"Saturday, 9 A.M.: ___"
Shed one's chains
Shut down bogus businesses?
*Start a construction project
severing
splashing
Show that won 16 Primetime Emmys
Stephenie Meyer subtitle
Show often set in a lab
Starting a project ... and what the letters between each pair of circles are doing?
Showing the ropes to
Soap interruption?
Splitting with one's group ... or a hint to the theme found in four puzzle rows
Setting new standards
Starting a conversation, concluding "Gee!"
Starting a conversation, perhaps
Showing originality
Splitting
Surf zone sights
Show sudden happiness on your face
Start getting nervous
Start getting visibly nervous
Smash to smithereens
*Start a number
Start serenading suddenly
Simplify something (... first 2 letters + last 3)
"Stop fighting!"
Stop a fight ... and a hint to a literal feature of the answers to starred clues
Score the first points in a tennis game?
Smash a meal?
Suicidally reckless.
slaphappy
Snap in two
Save from disgrace?
Send a "Dear John" letter
Snap the seal
Suddenly start singing, as in a musical
Space for conventioneers
Spot of coffee?
Separations
Shoots first in billiards
Short recesses
Short vacations
Some are lucky
Starts a pool game
Starts the pool game
Strokes of good fortune
Strokes of luck
Shares a meal in a symbolic gesture
Sampras aim, often
Starts training
Suddenly sobs
Splits, in a way
Soars to success
Severs ties
Succeeds in bull taming
Starts a conversation, or what the answer to each starred clue does to its circled letters
Splits, as a couple
Start a conversation at a party, figuratively
Start a conversation
Start a friendship, in a way
Strike up a conversation, say
Strike up a conversation, say ... or what five entries in this puzzle do (with a greeting formed by their extra letters!)
Succumb to a sting, e.g.
Set a new numerical standard
Speak up, like a pool player?
Speak, at last
Subdivide some pizza?
Step up (Part 2)
SIGNIFICANT advance in knowledge
Scientific triumph.
Sudden advance, as in science
Sudden significant advance
*Split an item into two?
Split decision?
Split, and, in another way, what the starred answers do
Splits that might be messy or amicable
Spring __ (college student's getaway)
SHALLOW water carnivorous fish
SPAROID fish
SPORTING fish
Saltwater Porgy
Silver-scaled fish
Silvery European fish
Silvery fish
Silvery freshwater fish
Some freshwater fish
scup
sun ORB SOL HELIOS fish
Sunfishes
Scottish word for hills or uplands
"Seat of consciousness"
SLICE of meat
Serving at Popeyes
Source of light meat
Suckling site
___ stroke, in swimming.
Sternum
Sternums ("Platoon")
Some chicken parts
Silicone implant companies?
Slowest competitive swimming style
Save your ___
Slight breeze
Slight wind
Slightest hint
Something often held underwater
Something seen on cold days
Something to catch or save
suitable for breathing
*Singing skill that enables good phrasing
SOUND softly
Song title for Kylie Minogue, Pink Floyd, Faith Hill, and Nickelback
Softly exhale cheap sentiment?
Showed signs of life
spirate
Secret-teller's warning
Short respite
Short rest
Swimmer hems about brief rest (8)
SPIROMETRY, subject of
SYMPATHETIC nervous system-regulated body function
SYMPATHOMIMETIC nervous system-regulated body function
Something to take after a garlicky meal
SEA cliff, debris at bottom of submerged
SUBMERGED cliff, debris at bottom of
Shampoo brand
Shampoo brand since 1930
Shampoo since 1930
Ski spot #1
Selectively nurtured
Scene of a Velázquez painting.
Spawned one single ox, posthaste?
SCOTTISH broth
Scottish soup
Sophie Skelton's "Outlander" role
Shar-Pei or Shih Tzu, e.g.
Sheltie or Saluki
Shetland, e.g.
Special lineage
Special variety within a species
Start a family
Stockman.
Straight person, in gay slang
Strain improver
Stud farm operator
Stud farm owner
Stud farm proprietor
Some atomic reactors
Some thoroughbred stables
Stock farmers.
Sex (but make it creepy-sounding)
Spawning
Stable-owner's concern
Samoyed and Standard Schnauzer, e.g.
Scottish fold and Russian blue, e.g.
Several are in this puzzle
Shar-Pei and Shih Tzu, e.g.
Siamese et al.
Scottish name for the breeches style of trouser
Sherwin-Williams CEO John G.
Saint Drew
Saints quarterback Drew
Six-time NFL passing yards leader
Super Bowl XLIV MVP
Super Bowl XLIV MVP Drew
Samuel Finley ___ Morse.
Sailor's delight.
Simple task
Something to shoot
Something to shoot in conversation?
Succeed without difficulty, with "in"
Summer ___ ('72 hit)
12 +1