| The stock in some card games | 28 |
| The Stilt | 9 |
| The still-hungry sucker ___ the bait | 36 |
| The still-hungry sailor ___ | 27 |
| The still-hungry launderer ___ | 30 |
| The still-hungry eager beaver ___ | 33 |
| The still-hungry clumsy fellow ___ | 34 |
| The still-hungry baby sitter ___ | 32 |
| The sticky icky | 15 |
| The sticks | 10 |
| The Steve Miller Band "Wide ___" | 42 |
| The Stern School of Business is part of it: Abbr. | 49 |
| The Steppes, e.g. | 17 |
| The steppes don't have one | 30 |
| The Step Brothers' dance genre | 34 |
| The Steelers, to the Ravens | 27 |
| The Steelers won its title in 2011 (abbr.) | 42 |
| The Steel City, for short | 25 |
| The statue's other name | 27 |
| The Statue of Liberty, for one | 30 |
| The Statue of Liberty's garb | 32 |
| The statue of David in Florence, e.g. | 37 |
| The statue "David" on open-air display in Florence, e.g. | 66 |
| The States, to Mexicans | 23 |
| The States, slangily | 20 |
| The States, informally | 22 |
| The States, in Monterrey | 24 |
| The States, in Baja | 19 |
| The States, for short | 21 |
| The States, casually | 20 |
| The States, briefly | 19 |
| The States' abbr. | 21 |
| The States | 10 |
| The state or quality of being former New York governor Spitzer? | 63 |
| The state of New York might make you get one after you were on a plane back from Hong Kong with this guy who couldn't stop coughing | 135 |
| The state of having children | 28 |
| The state of France? | 20 |
| The state of falling into disuse | 32 |
| The state of being bread (!) | 28 |
| The State Department, informally | 32 |
| The State Department on a nice day? | 35 |
| The State Department | 20 |
| The starts of this puzzle's three longest answers are shades of it | 70 |
| The starts of this puzzle's six longest answers are types of them | 69 |
| The starts of answers to asterisked clues are the most popular adult Halloween ones | 83 |
| The starting players | 20 |
| The starters, in sports | 23 |
| The start of understanding? | 27 |
| The start of time | 17 |
| The start of the four theme entries, collectively | 49 |
| The start of something? | 23 |
| The start of something big? | 27 |
| The start of something | 22 |
| The start of an invention | 25 |
| The start | 9 |
| The stars of the Stars and Stripes | 34 |
| The Stars may play the Blues in it, briefly | 43 |
| The Stars and Stripes | 21 |
| The Starlighters' Joey | 26 |
| The Star-Spangled Banner | 24 |
| The Star Wars films, e.g. | 25 |
| The Star of _____ | 17 |
| The Star of India, e.g. | 23 |
| The Star City of the South | 26 |
| The stand-in always has to ___ | 30 |
| The Stamp Act, e.g. | 19 |
| THE STAKES | 10 |
| The stage | 9 |
| The staff of life | 17 |
| The staff departs | 17 |
| The St. Lawrence R. flows through it | 36 |
| The SS Manhattan was the first commercial ship to cross it | 58 |
| The squeaky wheel gets the grease, but also... | 46 |
| The squares of "three squares" | 40 |
| The square root of nueve | 24 |
| The square root of IX | 21 |
| The square root of cuatro | 25 |
| The square of the square of i | 29 |
| The Spy Who Came In From the Cold | 33 |
| The spy in "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold" | 56 |
| The Spruce Goose was one | 24 |
| The Sprats, e.g. | 16 |
| The spot | 8 |
| The sport of shooting, in Soissons | 34 |
| The sport of rowing racing shells | 33 |
| The Spokane Shock's org. | 28 |
| The spit in a spit roast, e.g. | 30 |
| The Spirit ___ Louis | 20 |
| The Spirit of St. Louis, e.g. | 29 |
| The spirit of Russia? | 21 |
| The spine of South America | 26 |
| The spinach eater | 17 |
| The spider bugs | 15 |
| The spicknel | 12 |
| The spice of life, so it's said | 35 |
| The spice of life | 17 |
| The Sphinx's is "blank and pitiless as the sun," per Yeats | 72 |
| The Sphinx had a famous one | 27 |
| The Sphinx and the Parthenon? | 29 |
| The sphere one moves in | 23 |