| Story that's "to be continued" | 44 |
| Story that's over one's head | 36 |
| Story that's sometimes dirty | 32 |
| Story writer/poet Grace who studied with Auden | 46 |
| Story written under a Penn name? | 32 |
| Story written using only 50 different words | 43 |
| Story wrongly attributed to Chaucer | 35 |
| Story ___ (fiction writer's concern) | 40 |
| Story-filled magazine since 1922 | 32 |
| Storyboard for "Poltergeist"? | 39 |
| Storybook friend of goatherd Peter | 34 |
| Storybook girl with a dog named Weenie | 38 |
| Storybook group residing in this puzzle? | 40 |
| Storyline that spans multiple episodes | 38 |
| Storyteller in "Woodstock" | 36 |
| Stout sleuth, in more ways than one | 35 |
| Stowe's "dismal" tale: 1856 | 41 |
| Stowe's "limb of mischief" | 40 |
| Stowe's "Little" girl | 35 |
| Stowe's "The Pearl of __ Island" | 46 |
| Stowe's "The Pearl of ___ Island" | 47 |
| STP "Heaven and Hot ___" | 34 |
| STP "Shangri-La ___ Da" | 33 |
| Strahan's morning talk show cohost | 38 |
| Strahan's morning-TV co-host | 32 |
| Straight A's comical redhead | 32 |
| Straight back home after working out? | 37 |
| Straight edges of pizza slices, essentially | 43 |
| Straight Faced song you leave off the mix tape? | 47 |
| Straight from the horse's mouth | 35 |
| Straight man who might use straightener | 39 |
| Straight order to go with your digestif | 39 |
| Straight out of the dryer, perhaps | 34 |
| Straight talker's slangy phrase | 35 |
| Straight ___ (PFLAG member, e.g.) | 33 |
| Straight-horned African antelope | 32 |
| Straight-to-curly transformation, informally | 44 |
| Straightforward Father's Day gift | 37 |
| Straightforward multiple choice options | 39 |
| Straightforward, as some questions | 34 |
| Strain at -- (fuss over trifles) | 32 |
| Strained euphemism for "black" | 40 |
| Strait adjacent to Long Island City | 35 |
| Strait between Sakhalin Island and Asia | 39 |
| Strait of ___, west of Singapore | 32 |
| Strait's "All My __ Live in Texas" | 48 |
| Straitjacket fit for a bookcase? | 32 |
| Straits of ___, between Egypt and Saudi Arabia | 46 |
| Strand at O'Hare in February, perhaps | 41 |
| Strand of several fibers woven together | 39 |
| Strand studied in genetic genealogy | 35 |
| Strand, as during a winter storm | 32 |
| Stranded by winter weather, perhaps | 35 |
| Stranded in one's mountain cabin, say | 41 |
| Stranded in the middle of the ocean, say | 40 |
| Stranded motorist's need, perhaps | 37 |
| Stranded traveler's signal, perhaps | 39 |
| Strands at the ski resort, perhaps | 34 |
| Strands during the winter, perhaps | 34 |
| Strange activity, with "off" | 38 |
| Strange bedfellows might give them to you: Abbr. | 48 |
| Strange misspelled city on the Black Sea? | 41 |
| Strange places where even hired boats never go? | 47 |
| Strange sighting in the night sky | 33 |
| Strange-sounding Norwegian canton | 33 |
| Strangely colored swimming spot? | 32 |
| Strangely, it's shorter than a day on Venus | 47 |
| Stranger Canadian native sitting on quay (8) | 44 |
| Stranger in a strange land's discomfort | 43 |
| Stranger often sat on by children | 33 |
| Strasberg in "The Godfather, Part II" | 47 |
| Strasberg of "The Godfather Part II" | 46 |
| Strasberg's way, with "the" | 41 |
| Strasbourg's river, in Strasbourg | 37 |
| Strate of "The Dukes of Hazzard" | 42 |
| Strategic island in the Baltic Sea | 34 |
| Strategic WWII island in the Northern Marianas | 46 |
| Strategy against a runner with a big lead | 41 |
| Strategy for eco-friendly golfers? | 34 |
| Strategy for getting a six-pack? | 32 |
| Strategy for reducing loan payments, briefly | 44 |
| Strategy game similar to checkers | 33 |
| Strategy rarely involving a power hitter | 40 |
| Strategy to get the word out fast | 33 |
| Strategy used by Joe Torre, maybe | 33 |
| Stratford, Eng., playhouse dedicated to the bard | 48 |
| Stratford-on-___ (Shakespeare's birthplace) | 47 |
| Stratosphere streakers, for short | 33 |
| Stratton's partner in manufacturing | 39 |
| Straub's "--- Story" | 34 |
| Straub's "___ Story" | 34 |
| Strauss heroine from classical myth | 35 |
| Strauss opera based on a play by Oscar Wilde | 44 |
| Strauss opera based on a Wilde play | 35 |
| Strauss opera taken in by Parseghian and Abzug | 46 |
| Strauss who founded a dry goods business in 1853 | 48 |
| Strauss with the denim inventory | 32 |
| Strauss wrote a concerto in D for it | 36 |
| Strauss' ____ Heldenleben | 32 |
| Strauss' "Ariadne ___ Naxos" | 42 |