| _____ rigueur (to the fullest extent): Fr. | 42 |
| _____ ringer | 12 |
| _____ Rio, Tex. | 15 |
| _____ Rios (Jamaican resort) | 28 |
| _____ Rios, Jamaica | 19 |
| _____ River Saskatchewan | 24 |
| _____ River, Alberta | 20 |
| _____ River, British Columbia | 29 |
| _____ River, Quebec | 19 |
| _____ River, Yukon | 18 |
| _____ Rivera, Calif. | 20 |
| _____ Rivieres, Quebec | 22 |
| _____ Rizzo ('69 Hoffman role) | 34 |
| _____ Rizzo of "Midnight Cowboy" | 42 |
| _____ Rocher, New Brunswick | 27 |
| _____ Rock (Australian tourist site) | 36 |
| _____ Rock, Australia | 21 |
| _____ rod (biblical item) | 25 |
| _____ roll | 10 |
| _____ Romeo | 11 |
| _____ Romeo (automobile) | 24 |
| _____ Rooter | 12 |
| _____ Rouge | 11 |
| _____ Royale National Park | 26 |
| _____ rubber | 12 |
| _____ rug | 9 |
| _____ rule | 10 |
| _____ Runnings, 1993 Candy movie | 32 |
| _____ Sabe (trusty scout) | 25 |
| _____ sack | 10 |
| _____ Sack (beanbag toy) | 24 |
| _____ sail | 10 |
| _____ sapiens | 13 |
| _____ Saud | 10 |
| _____ Saud (Saudi king) | 23 |
| _____ savant | 12 |
| _____ Sawyer of the comics | 26 |
| _____ scale | 11 |
| _____ scale (hardness measure) | 30 |
| _____ school | 12 |
| _____ Schwarz | 13 |
| _____ Scott Decision, 1857 | 26 |
| _____ scratch | 13 |
| _____ Sea (W.W. II site) | 24 |
| _____ secret | 12 |
| _____ section | 13 |
| _____ Selassie | 14 |
| _____ sense | 11 |
| _____ sequitur | 14 |
| _____ service | 13 |
| _____ shell | 11 |
| _____ signum | 12 |
| _____ Simon | 11 |
| _____ situation | 15 |
| _____ ski | 9 |
| _____ Ski Valley, N.M. | 22 |
| _____ Slave Lake | 16 |
| _____ smasher | 13 |
| _____ soda | 10 |
| _____ Soleil (Louis XIV) | 24 |
| _____ Solo of "Star Wars" | 35 |
| _____ speak (as it were) | 24 |
| _____ Speedwagon | 16 |
| _____ Spiegel (German magazine) | 31 |
| _____ spout (house part) | 24 |
| _____ Springs | 13 |
| _____ Springs, Alberta | 22 |
| _____ Springs, Colo. | 20 |
| _____ Spruce (Manitoba's tree) | 34 |
| _____ spumante | 14 |
| _____ St. Vincent Millay | 24 |
| _____ standstill | 16 |
| _____ Stanley Gardner | 21 |
| _____ State (David Letterman's alma mater) | 46 |
| _____ States | 12 |
| _____ Station | 13 |
| _____ Ste. Marie | 16 |
| _____ stick | 11 |
| _____ sting | 11 |
| _____ stock (carried) | 21 |
| _____ Stone, Chief Justice in 1945 | 34 |
| _____ store by | 14 |
| _____ storm | 11 |
| _____ stretch (serve time) | 26 |
| _____ string | 12 |
| _____ stroke (immediately) | 26 |
| _____ studies (college major) | 29 |
| _____ support (alimony) | 23 |
| _____ supra (above-mentioned) | 29 |
| _____ supra (see above) | 23 |
| _____ supra (where mentioned above) | 35 |
| _____ surgery | 13 |
| _____ suzette | 13 |
| _____ system (blood typing) | 27 |
| _____ tablets (Egyptian cuneiform treasures) | 44 |
| _____ tai | 9 |
| _____ tai (cocktail) | 20 |
| _____ Tales, 1999 Hal-lowe'en hair raiser | 45 |
| _____ Tass (Russian news agency) | 32 |
| _____ Te Ching | 14 |