Letter S
Skin of a deer
Soft, yellowish suede leather
SpongeBob SquarePants feature
small black grain used for making flour
Scandalous Tampa headline?
Super Bowl XXXVII champs
Super Bowl XXXVII winners
SMALL rounded body
Shoot-to-be
Sign of spring in four places in this puzzle
Sign of spring, hidden four times in this puzzle
Sir, less formally
Slangy term of address.
Smokeable weed part
Smoked part
Social deb
Something about to develop
Son on "Married... With Children"
Soon-to-be flower
Sound from a commercial frog
Spring growth
Spring sight
Start of a flower
Start to sprout
Straight man for Lou
start to grow or develop
swell with new growth
swelling on a plant that develops into a leaf or flower
Stars on "The Comedy Hour."
Sziget Festival setting
Started to grow or develop
Sakyamuni
Sanskrit for "awakened one"
Shrine figure
Siddhartha
Siddhartha Gautama
Subject of a 233-foot statue in Leshan, China
Statues seen in India.
School where two religions are taught?
shin
Self-titled rock album of 1958
Singer born in Lubbock, Texas in 1935
Suave alter ego in "The Nutty Professor"
Scuba diving safety measure
Singer Holly's method?
Swimmers' safety precaution
SUNSHINE Coast beach (Austral.)
Shift slightly
Shift with difficulty
Slightly modify one's position
Stir slightly
Stop being obstinate
Stop being stubborn
Singles champ: 1950
Something good to be under
Spending Plan
Spending proposals
Stock or supply
"Sittin' in the Sun (Countin' My Money)" or "Can't Buy Me Love"?
Spending reduction
Spending plan approximations
short form of budgerigar
Signs of efflorescence
Signs of winter's end
Some brewskis
Some domestic beers, for short
Some light beers
Spring forms
Spring harbingers.
Springtime arrivals
Sprouts.
Starts to blossom
Starts to flower
Starts to grow
Super Bowl advertiser with Clydesdale horses
"!___ suerte!" ("Good luck!")
San Francisco's ___ Vista Park
Spanish word said before "noches"
Spanish word meaning "good"
Spanish for "good"
Spanish word often confused with "bien"
Start of a Spanish greeting
Scene of La Prensa's death.
South American city
Saludo alternative
Sandy colour
Shine to a high gloss
Shine up
shade yellow color
Sacred creature to many Native Plains people
Sitting Bull was in his show
Subject of an E.E. Cummings "portrait"
Super Bowl runner-ups, 1991-94
Santa after relocating his operations to upstate New York?
Scuff marks on the prairie?
Some western New York legislation?
Spicy chicken appetizer
Spicy piece of chicken
*Snack named for its New York place of origin
Spicy bar fare
SUBSTANCE that helps to stabilise/stabilize the pH of a solution
Shock absorber
Silly old man at end of track?
Small state between hostile nations
STRIKE with hand
Self-serve meal
Self-service meal
Self-serving arrangement?
Serve-yourself dinner spread
Sideboard
Smorgasbord
Spread out on the table?
side board
strike against forcefully
Smorgasbord smack?
smorgasbords
Stupid bird?
small North American diving duck
Sarah Michelle Gellar role
Sarah Michelle Gellar's TV role
Secret mike
Sickness cause
Snug rug inhabitant
Snug rug occupant
Software flaw
Software glitch
Software issue
Software problem
Spy device dropped into each of the theme entries
Spy's favorite plant?
Spy's plant
Spying device
Sting operation item
Surveillance device
Surveillant's plant
Source of concern
Source of continual fear
Scary things.
Sources of fear
Snakeroot
Scarebabe.
Sources of chronic annoyance
Sources of irritation
Software patch, maybe
Source of needless anxiety
Small open motor vehicle
Small perambulator.
Surrey's cousin.
SULAWESI island inhabitant(s)
SULAWESI island seafaring inhabitant(s)
"Strike while the __"
Sugary punch, slangily
Soldier's alarm clock
Sound for chargers?
Source of a wake-up call
Source of base notes
small trumpet
Sequin alternative
Swelling section of a military horn?
Sounded reveille
someone who plays a bugle
Some mating calls
Some military brass?
Sunup sounds in the service
Survival kit for quick evacuation
Statement of programming errors
Sam's defeater, often
Secret listening devices
Software glitches
Software glitches ... and, in a broad sense, small things hidden in the answers to starred clues
Software issues
Surveillance aids
Star of "Porky's Hare Hunt"
Sight at many a barbecue
"Sayonara, ya jerks!"
"So long, sucka!"
Style of furniture decoration
Stage, in Berlin
Skyhawk maker
Skylark maker
Skylark, for one
Software iteration
Solidify
Stuff-y mall franchise? (letters 5-7)
suitable for building on
Start over from scratch
someone who contracts for and supervises construction
skyscraper
Smaller parts making up a larger whole ... with a hint to the six groups of shaded squares in this puzzle
Stylist's jobs?
Some Muslims in the construction industry?
Sturdily made
Solomon Group Islands
Solomon Island, at northern tip of Bougainville.
SECOND month (Heb.)
second month
Shallot, e.g.
Shallot, for one
Socket insert
Something behind a shade
Something screwed into a lamp
Sylvania product
Symbol of a bright idea
spinal cord
Small bud, as in onion plants.
Spherical
Socket inserts
Some spring plantings
Sources of light
Stock at hardware stores and garden shops
song thrush
Songbirds in "The Rubáiyát"
Sofia's home (abbr.)
Sofian: Abbr.
Soviet satellite: Abbr.
Slavic language.
Sofia native
Sofia resident
Sofia is its capital city
Sofia is its capital.
Sofia's country
Sofia's land
Sofia's place
Sophia's country
SOUTHERN Slavic/Slavonic language
Shoplifter's giveaway, perhaps
Shoplifter's tip-off, maybe
Slight swelling
Spandex danger
Start to swell
Stick (out)
Stick out slightly
Sudden increase
Swell outward
Swell slightly
swelling on a normally flat surface
Showed a muffin top, say
Stuck (out)
Swelled unnaturally
Sticks (out)
Sticks out on the sides
Sudden increases
Sandwiches made with Korean-style grilled meat
Slavs: Abbr.
Screenwriter known for collaborating on "Ninotchka"
Ship's hold or cargo
Spam
ship that carries bulk cargo
Sailor s wall
Ship or plane partition
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