| __ serif | 8 |
| __ service | 10 |
| __ session | 10 |
| __ set | 6 |
| __ set: construction toy | 24 |
| __ Set: kids' building toy | 30 |
| __ setter | 9 |
| __ shadow of one's former self | 34 |
| __ Shankar | 10 |
| __ shape: not well | 18 |
| __ sheet | 8 |
| __ shirt | 8 |
| __ shoestring (inexpensively) | 29 |
| __ shoestring: with little to spend | 35 |
| __ shop | 7 |
| __ Shore | 8 |
| __ shot | 7 |
| __ shot (fast) | 14 |
| __ show | 7 |
| __ shui | 7 |
| __ shui (architectural art) | 27 |
| __ Siddons Award | 16 |
| __ signum | 9 |
| __ Simbel, site of Ramses II temples | 36 |
| __ Sir or Madam (letter starter) | 32 |
| __ sister | 9 |
| __ Skavinsky Skavar, song rival of Abdul Abulbul Amir | 53 |
| __ Sketch | 9 |
| __ Sketch (drawing toy) | 23 |
| __ Sketch: drawing toy | 22 |
| __ skirt | 8 |
| __ sleep | 8 |
| __ slip | 7 |
| __ Smith apple | 14 |
| __ smoke | 8 |
| __ snail's pace | 19 |
| __ snuff | 8 |
| __ snuff: adequate | 18 |
| __ so (nevertheless) | 20 |
| __ so weiter: Berliner's "et cetera" | 50 |
| __ society | 10 |
| __ socks | 8 |
| __ soda | 7 |
| __ soda (sodium carbonate) | 26 |
| __ song: cheaply | 16 |
| __ sort | 7 |
| __ souci: carefree | 18 |
| __ Sound | 8 |
| __ Sound (Seattle's water) | 30 |
| __ Sound (Washington State water) | 33 |
| __ Sound (water at Seattle) | 27 |
| __ soup | 7 |
| __ soup (heavy fog) | 19 |
| __ sour note | 12 |
| __ Sousé, W.C. Fields's "The Bank Dick" role | 61 |
| __ South | 8 |
| __ Southwest Grill: restaurant chain | 36 |
| __ space | 8 |
| __ speak | 8 |
| __ speak (as it were) | 21 |
| __ speak louder ... | 19 |
| __ Speaker (contemporary title) | 31 |
| __ special: menu board heading | 30 |
| __ Speed Wagon: classic truck | 29 |
| __ Speedwagon | 13 |
| __ Spice aftershave | 19 |
| __ Spiegel: German magazine | 27 |
| __ spin | 7 |
| __ splicing | 11 |
| __ split | 8 |
| __ Sports Bureau, baseball's official statistician | 54 |
| __ spot | 7 |
| __ sprawl | 9 |
| __ spray | 8 |
| __ spumante | 11 |
| __ spumante wine | 16 |
| __ spumanti | 11 |
| __ squad | 8 |
| __ Squad: Best Buy service team | 31 |
| __ Squalor, Count Olaf's girlfriend in "A Series of Unfortunate Events" | 85 |
| __ Squalor: Lemony Snicket character | 36 |
| __ square meal | 14 |
| __ Square, adjacent to the Boston Marathon finish line | 54 |
| __ squash | 9 |
| __ St Ives: Cornwall museum | 27 |
| __ Stadium, home of D.C. United | 31 |
| __ standstill | 13 |
| __ standstill (motionless) | 26 |
| __ Stanley Gardner | 18 |
| __ Star State | 13 |
| __ Star State (Texas) | 21 |
| __ Starkey, longtime drummer for The Who | 40 |
| __ stars | 8 |
| __ State Broncos: Western Athletic Conf. team | 45 |
| __ State Building | 17 |
| __ station | 10 |
| __ status | 9 |
| __ Ste. Marie, MI | 17 |
| __ Ste. Marie, Ontario | 22 |
| __ Steaks | 9 |