Letter S
Strawberry, for example
Spiritual heard in 1929's "Show Boat"
Strong connection, as to one's land
Still waters
Seas, poetically
seabed
Submarine realm
Submarine zone
Submarine's realm
Scuba-diving Danson?
Skeleton in the closet
Skeleton in the closet, maybe
Sunken, as eyes
Sunken, in a way
Sound that's heaved
Scrap, slangily
Sends to Davy Jones's locker
Sound slumber
"Star Trek" series that ran from 1993 to 1999
So-called shadow government that can't be overthrown, and a hint to this puzzle's theme
Sunbather's hue
Speedy wide receiver, perhaps
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle?
Secret Watergate informant with a descriptive nickname
Source for Woodward
Serious difficulty.
Serious trouble, so to speak
Something found in a playroom
Salt lick visitor
Salten subjects
Sambar
Sambar or Bambi
Sambar or wapiti.
Sambar, e.g.
Santa power
Santa transporter
Santa's team, e.g.
Seasonal prey
Several bucks
Shy creature
Sika, e.g.
Silhouette on a cautionary road sign
Silhouette on a country road sign
Silhouette on a crossing sign
Silhouette on a highway sign
Silhouette on a road sign
Silhouette on many a yellow sign
Silhouetted road sign animal
Skittish herd
Skittish wildlife
Skittish woodland creatures
Sleigh pullers
Some big bucks
Some bucks
Some does
Some forest creatures
Some have white tails
Some ruminants
Source of venison
Stag night participant?
Stag or buck
Stag or doe
Stag or doe . . . or both
Stag or fawn
Stag or hart
Stag party attendee
Stag, e.g.
Stag, for one
Stag, say
Staggard
Stags
Stags and bucks
Stags and does
Stags and fawns
Start of a letter in the form of a rebus
Subject of road "Xing" signs
Sylvan bounders
System of a Down "___ Dance"
Show hosted by Bambi the Blogger?
Seeder name
Snow blower moniker
Snowthrower company
Steel plow developer
Steel plow inventor
Steel plow maker
Steel plow maker John
Steel plow manufacturer
Steel plow name
Steel plow pioneer
Steel plow's inventor.
Steel-plow developer John
Steel-plow entrepreneur
Steel-plow inventor
Steel-plow man
Steel-plow pioneer
Steel-plow pioneer John
Surname on a green tractor
Surname on an EZtrak mower
Surname on green mowers
Surname on many green tractors
Surname on some lawn mowers
Surname on some mowers
Surname on some tillers
Surname on tractors
Surname seen by a yellow stag
Surname seen on some mowers
Some combines
Some farm equipment
Some farm machines
Some farm vehicles
Some lawn mowers
Some mowers
Some riding mowers
Some tractors
Small cattail
Source of some leather for gloves
Scottish hunting dog
Small ruminant.
Salty spots
Star of venison stew
Suburb of Cincinnati.
Seasonal targets
Some stags
Some tick carriers
Species of ruminants
Start of a Christmas letter from Rudolph?
Some leather garments
Sherlock Holmes accessory
Sign with a leaping pictogram
Sign with an antlered pictogram
Sandra and Ruby
School passes?
Scores in the 60s, usually
Scrabble 2-pointers
Scrabble two-pointers
Shoddy pair?
Singers Joey and Kiki
Solid Gold host Rick
Start of D-Day?
Stinky grades
Subpar grades
Substandard marks
Surname of the "Shadow Over Innsmouth" co-author
Something specific, informally
Specific info
Specifications, in slang
Specifics, for short
Specifics, in slang
Specifics, informally
Specifics, slangily
Specs
Specs dished at a gossip sesh
Specs dished in a gossip sesh
Specs, casually
*She played Mary Taylor in "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial"
Statement to debtor Ruby?
So fresh
So, so fresh
Super, to Snoop Lion
Superb, in bygone slang
Surely, informally
Sweet, to a b-boy
Syn., for one
Scratch up
Scratch up, e.g.
Scrawl graffiti on, e.g.
Scuff up
Spoil the appearance of.
Spoil the surface of
Spray graffiti
Spray graffiti on
Smears paint on walls
Spray graffiti from coast to coast?
Spanish composer of "Fire Dance."
Slander or libel
Subject to slander
Slung mud at
Slandering and libeling
Skim grease from
Skim milk?
Skim off grease
Skim off grease from
Skim the cream
Skim the cream off the top, e.g.
Skim, as homemade chicken stock
Skim, as milk
Skim, as soup
Skim, perhaps
Skin the soup
Skim the oily layer from
Skims the grease from
Skims the oily layer from
Setting after resetting
Software options you might restore
Slip past
Something to go down in
Sports setback
Sports team's loss
Sports page stats
Seconds sale feature
Switch sides
subnormal
Side changer
Some exiles
SPEAK on behalf of
STAND up for
She supported the motion to strike
Stick up for
seek to maintain
Stood up for
Stuck up for
SOCCER position
Soccer midfielder, typically
Soccer player tasked with slowing the opponent's attack
Speaks for
Supports, as a theory
Sec. Brown's concern
Secondary side
Secy. Johnson's department.
Side on a football field
Side without the ball
Stadium chant, and word that can follow the ends of the answers to starred clues
Some football teams
So as to avoid criticism
Sailing maneuver to avoid a pirate's threat?
Schedule for later
Submit to authority
Successive musical keys
Shock treatment, for short
Shocking ER treatment
Shortfall in finances or resources
Shortfall in revenue
Surplus's opposite
short measure
Short ends, on the scoreboard
Swam upstream, in a sense
Squares up to
Stands uo to.
SECURE fortress against enfilading fire
Shield against frontal fire
Shield from enemy eyes
Sully, as a reputation
sully someone's reputation
Showed clearly
Specify distinctly
State the meaning of
State the precise meaning of
show the form or outline of
state precisely the meaning of
Stated the meaning of
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