| ___ Rock Pete (Diesel Sweeties character) | 41 |
| ___ Rock, Australian tourist attraction | 39 |
| ___ rod (molding with a twined serpent design) | 46 |
| ___ Roger de Coverley (country dance) | 37 |
| ___ Roker (Hannah Montana's bodyguard) | 42 |
| ___ roll (experiences good luck) | 32 |
| ___ Rom ("Lost" Other) | 32 |
| ___ Romero, onetime player of the Joker | 39 |
| ___ Room (largest room in the White House) | 42 |
| ___ room (site for a Ping-Pong table) | 37 |
| ___ Root, Nobelist for Peace: 1912 | 34 |
| ___ Rosada (Argentine presidentÂ’s office) | 45 |
| ___ Rosada (Argentine presidential manor) | 41 |
| ___ Rosebud, 1914 Kentucky Derby winner | 39 |
| ___ Roses (band that returned with a 2008 album) | 48 |
| ___ Ross Bridge (Delaware crosser) | 34 |
| ___ Ross, author of "Wisconsin" | 41 |
| ___ roster (eligible team members) | 34 |
| ___ Row (bespoke tailoring locale) | 34 |
| ___ Royal, W.W. II aircraft carrier | 35 |
| ___ Royale (Lake Superior feature) | 34 |
| ___ Rud, river on Afghanistan's boundary | 44 |
| ___ Ruins National Monument, N.M. | 33 |
| ___ Ruler, Secretariat's sire | 33 |
| ___ Rutherford, the Father of Nuclear Physics | 45 |
| ___ Ryan, a k a the Ryan Express | 32 |
| ___ Ryerson in "Groundhog Day" | 40 |
| ___ Saab (French fashion designer) | 34 |
| ___ sabaki (martial arts movement) | 34 |
| ___ Sabha, India's lower house | 34 |
| ___ sac (pouch between bones and tendons) | 41 |
| ___ Sad (Serbia's second-largest city) | 42 |
| ___ Sailer, three-time 1956 skiing gold medalist | 48 |
| ___ Saint-Louis (solid ground in the Seine) | 43 |
| ___ salad (dish featuring bacon and egg) | 40 |
| ___ salad (dish with ground beef) | 33 |
| ___ Salonga, "Miss Saigon" actress | 44 |
| ___ Salty's (potato chip brand) | 35 |
| ___ Santiago, 1987 N.L. Rookie of the Year | 42 |
| ___ Sark, a Channel Islands ruler | 33 |
| ___ sauce (raspberry dessert topping) | 37 |
| ___ Saud (former Mideast leader) | 32 |
| ___ Saud (Saudi Arabia's founder) | 37 |
| ___ Saud, founder of Saudi Arabia | 33 |
| ___ Savy Fav (New York City indie band) | 39 |
| ___ saw (carpenter's curve cutter) | 38 |
| ___ scale (mineral hardness measure) | 36 |
| ___ Scamander, pseudonym of J. K. Rowling | 41 |
| ___ scan (biometric authentication method) | 42 |
| ___ scheme (eponymous investment scam) | 38 |
| ___ School (20th-century art group) | 35 |
| ___ school (doctor's training) | 34 |
| ___ School (early 20th-century art group) | 41 |
| ___ school (pre-college institution) | 36 |
| ___ school (precollege institution) | 35 |
| ___ Schwarz (noted N.Y. toy store) | 34 |
| ___ sci (college major, informally) | 35 |
| ___ Science Fiction & Fact (magazine) | 41 |
| ___ Scowcroft, former presidential adviser | 42 |
| ___ Sculptoris, southern constellation | 38 |
| ___ Se (NYC Michelin three-star restaurant) | 43 |
| ___ Sea (Amu Darya's outlet) | 32 |
| ___ Sea (arm of the Arctic Ocean) | 33 |
| ___ Sea (greatly shrunken body of water) | 40 |
| ___ Sea (inland body with high salinity) | 40 |
| ___ Sea (Kazakhstan body of water) | 34 |
| ___ Sea (part of Jordan's boundary) | 39 |
| ___ Sea (part of the South Atlantic) | 36 |
| ___ Sea (shrinking body of water in Asia) | 41 |
| ___ Sea (shrinking body of water) | 33 |
| ___ Sea between Ireland and England | 35 |
| ___ Sea of California's Sonoran Desert | 42 |
| ___ Sea, 2,000-square-mile saltwater lake | 41 |
| ___ Sea, arm of the Arctic Ocean | 32 |
| ___ Sea, arm of the Indian Ocean | 32 |
| ___ Sea, body of water north of Norway | 38 |
| ___ Sea, body of water south of Italy | 37 |
| ___ Sea, connected to St. George's Channel | 46 |
| ___ Sea, east of the Ustyurt Plateau | 36 |
| ___ Sea, home of the Isle of Man | 32 |
| ___ Sea, known in ancient times as Oxianus Lacus | 48 |
| ___ Sea, lake in southern Calif. | 32 |
| ___ Sea, modern site of ship graveyards | 39 |
| ___ Sea, near the Greater Barsuki Desert | 40 |
| ___ Sea, next to the Philippines | 32 |
| ___ Sea, outlet for the Amu Darya | 33 |
| ___ Sea, outlet of the Amu Darya | 32 |
| ___ Sea, south of the Philippines | 33 |
| ___ Sea, waters depleted by irrigation projects | 47 |
| ___ Seal (weatherproofing product) | 34 |
| ___ Search (former name for Bing) | 33 |
| ___ seat (revival-meeting bench) | 32 |
| ___ sec. (minutes keeper, for short) | 36 |
| ___ Sec. of the Navy (F.D.R.: 1913-20) | 38 |
| ___ seeds, ingredients in some health drinks | 44 |
| ___ segno (from the repeat sign, in music) | 42 |
| ___ segno (from the sign in music) | 34 |
| ___ septal defect (heart problem) | 33 |
| ___ Seri Begawan (Brunei's capital) | 39 |
| ___ server (site from which to download) | 40 |