| ___ Shah Pahlevi | 16 |
| ___ Shaker | 10 |
| ___ Shaker (band with the 1996 hit "Govinda") | 55 |
| ___ shame | 9 |
| ___ shame (abash) | 17 |
| ___ shame (mortify) | 19 |
| ___ shame (rout in a bout) | 26 |
| ___ shaming | 11 |
| ___ Shams University, in Cairo | 30 |
| ___ Shan (Asian range) | 22 |
| ___ Shan (mountain range) | 25 |
| ___ Shan (National Zoo panda born in 2005) | 42 |
| ___ Shan, Asian mountain system | 31 |
| ___ Shan, Asian range | 21 |
| ___ Shan, central Asian range | 29 |
| ___ Shankar | 11 |
| ___ Shankar, sitar strummer | 27 |
| ___ Shannon | 11 |
| ___ shanter (Scottish topper) | 29 |
| ___ shape (pathetic) | 20 |
| ___ share | 9 |
| ___ share alike | 15 |
| ___ Sharett, Israel's first foreign minister, 1949-56 | 57 |
| ___ shark | 9 |
| ___ Sharkey, Rickles role | 25 |
| ___ Sharon | 10 |
| ___ Sharp, founder of Four Seasons Hotels | 41 |
| ___ Shâm (Syria, to an Arab) | 31 |
| ___ Sheen (hair product) | 24 |
| ___ sheet | 9 |
| ___ sheet (arrest record) | 25 |
| ___ sheet (bigots' tabloid) | 31 |
| ___ sheet (builder's instructions) | 38 |
| ___ sheet (guidelines) | 22 |
| ___ Shelly, writer/director/co-star of "Waitress," 2007 | 65 |
| ___ Sheraton (hotel company) | 28 |
| ___ Sherman | 11 |
| ___ Sherman (luxury cigarettes) | 31 |
| ___ Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet | 30 |
| ___ shibah (mourn in Israel) | 28 |
| ___ shift (newspaper's night relay) | 39 |
| ___ Shikibu, Japanese poet | 26 |
| ___ shine | 9 |
| ___ Shinrikyo (Japanese cult in 1995 news) | 42 |
| ___ Shinrikyo (Japanese group that carried out a 1995 sarin attack in Tokyo) | 76 |
| ___ shirt | 9 |
| ___ shirt (colorful garment) | 28 |
| ___ shirt (colorful short-sleeved attire) | 41 |
| ___ shock (price-tag panic) | 27 |
| ___ shock syndrome | 18 |
| ___ shoe | 8 |
| ___ shoes (ballet wear) | 23 |
| ___ shoestring | 14 |
| ___ shoestring (cheaply) | 24 |
| ___ shoestring (with little to spend) | 37 |
| ___ shooter | 11 |
| ___ shooting | 12 |
| ___ shop | 8 |
| ___ Shop Boys | 13 |
| ___ Shop Boys ("Go West" band) | 40 |
| ___ Shop Boys ("West End Girls" band) | 47 |
| ___ shoppers | 12 |
| ___ short | 9 |
| ___ short (underestimate) | 25 |
| ___ shorthair (cat breed) | 25 |
| ___ Shorthand course | 20 |
| ___ shorts | 10 |
| ___ shot | 8 |
| ___ shot (drummer's quickie) | 32 |
| ___ shot (joke follow-up) | 25 |
| ___ shot (punch line follow-up) | 31 |
| ___ shot (punchline follow-up) | 30 |
| ___ shot, in hockey | 19 |
| ___ shoulders above | 19 |
| ___ show | 8 |
| ___ show (carnival attraction) | 30 |
| ___ show (carnival) | 19 |
| ___ show (solo act) | 19 |
| ___ show (spectacle) | 20 |
| ___ show (street carnival) | 26 |
| ___ show, at a carnival | 23 |
| ___ shower (event where a couple rakes in the loot) | 51 |
| ___ shrdlu | 10 |
| ___ shrdlu (printer's error) | 32 |
| ___ shrdlu (printer's slug) | 31 |
| ___ shrew | 9 |
| ___ shrike of Madagascar | 24 |
| ___ shrimp (what Sea-Monkeys are) | 33 |
| ___ Shriver, sister of J.F.K. | 29 |
| ___ shu pork | 12 |
| ___ Shuffle | 11 |
| ___ Shuffle (boxing move) | 25 |
| ___ shui | 8 |
| ___ shui (Chinese practice) | 27 |
| ___ siècle | 13 |
| ___ siècle (decadent) | 24 |
| ___ side (askew) | 16 |
| ___ side of the tracks | 22 |
| ___ sides | 9 |
| ___ sides (everywhere) | 22 |