| Special something | 17 |
| Special somethings | 18 |
| Special source of annoyance | 27 |
| Special span | 12 |
| Special spots | 13 |
| Special suffix | 14 |
| Special talent | 14 |
| Special talents | 15 |
| Special teachers | 16 |
| Special team | 12 |
| Special team member | 19 |
| Special teams play | 18 |
| Special things? | 15 |
| Special ties | 12 |
| Special time | 12 |
| Special time in history | 23 |
| Special times | 13 |
| Special touch | 13 |
| Special touch, briefly | 22 |
| Special touch, in brief | 23 |
| Special treat | 13 |
| Special treatment | 17 |
| Special treatment, briefly | 26 |
| Special treatment, for short | 28 |
| Special treatments | 18 |
| Special type of reporting | 25 |
| Special use: Abbr. | 18 |
| Special vehicle | 15 |
| Special vocabularies | 20 |
| Special vocabulary | 18 |
| Special __ | 10 |
| Special __ (military missions) | 30 |
| Special __: military force | 26 |
| Special ___ | 11 |
| Special ___ (milit. force) | 26 |
| Special ___ (military force) | 28 |
| Special ___ (military group) | 28 |
| Special ___ (super-secret military unit) | 40 |
| Special, as a committee | 23 |
| Special, maybe | 14 |
| Special, perhaps | 16 |
| Special-care job at the cleaner's | 37 |
| Special-Forces cap | 18 |
| Special-handling designation at the post office | 47 |
| Special-interest group | 22 |
| Special-interest grp. | 21 |
| Special-interest grps. | 22 |
| Special-interest org. | 21 |
| Special-interest representative | 31 |
| Special-issue magazines | 23 |
| Special-occasion clothing | 25 |
| Special-ops force | 17 |
| Special-purpose | 15 |
| Special-purpose group | 21 |
| Special-purpose ovens | 21 |
| Special-request flight meal option | 34 |
| Special-services soldier | 24 |
| Special-venue film format | 25 |
| Special-___ (football players used only in specific situations) | 63 |
| Specialist | 10 |
| Specialist among builders | 25 |
| Specialist for cooks who are kooks? | 35 |
| Specialist in a duck blind | 26 |
| Specialist in amours | 20 |
| Specialist in audibles? | 23 |
| Specialist in certain roots | 27 |
| Specialist in eye diseases | 26 |
| Specialist in fishing | 21 |
| Specialist in futures | 21 |
| Specialist in gem engraving | 27 |
| Specialist in love poetry | 25 |
| Specialist in spots | 19 |
| Specialist in the study of nutrition | 36 |
| Specialist M.D. | 15 |
| Specialist M.D.'s | 21 |
| Specialist on a running track | 29 |
| Specialist to see regarding this puzzle's theme | 51 |
| Specialist who checks pupils at the police academy? | 51 |
| Specialist who delivers for the Sopranos? | 41 |
| Specialist who doesn't know what he's doing? | 52 |
| Specialist who keeps a Kardashian healthy? | 42 |
| Specialist who listens to sole music? | 37 |
| Specialist who might conduct a balance test | 43 |
| Specialist who might treat otitis interna | 41 |
| Specialist who treats Santa's broken ankle? | 47 |
| Specialist who's paid in continental currency? | 50 |
| Specialist whose field covers 675,000 species | 45 |
| Specialist working at the Tate | 30 |
| Specialist's antithesis | 27 |
| Specialist's offering | 25 |
| Specialist's offering, in court | 35 |
| Specialist's opposite | 25 |
| Specialist's point | 22 |
| Specialist's specialty | 26 |
| Specialist's superior: Abbr. | 32 |
| Specialist, for example | 23 |
| Specialist, for one | 19 |
| Specialist: Suffix | 18 |
| Specialists | 11 |
| Specialists in forging weapons | 30 |