| ___ State (Hawaii's nickname) | 33 |
| ___ State (Mississippi university) | 34 |
| ___ State (Missouri's nickname) | 35 |
| ___ State (Mountain West Conference team) | 41 |
| ___ state (pleasant place to be) | 32 |
| ___ State Building (Manhattan skyscraper) | 41 |
| ___ State University (Detroit institution) | 42 |
| ___ states (California, Massachusetts, et al.) | 46 |
| ___ States (group that includes Bulgaria) | 41 |
| ___ states (Middle America, mockingly) | 38 |
| ___ statesman (retired politician) | 34 |
| ___ stay (ship's fastening device) | 38 |
| ___ Steel ("Guitar Hero" character) | 45 |
| ___ Stefani, lead singer of No Doubt | 36 |
| ___ Stevens (TV's Peter Gunn) | 33 |
| ___ Stevens, star of "Peter Gunn" | 43 |
| ___ stick (bouncy transportation) | 33 |
| ___ stick (trick-or-treater's accessory) | 44 |
| ___ Stix (powdered sugar straws) | 32 |
| ___ stock (can ship immediately) | 32 |
| ___ Stoker, "Dracula" author | 38 |
| ___ Stoker, Dracula's creator | 33 |
| ___ Stone, co-creator of "South Park" | 47 |
| ___ store (place to buy notions) | 32 |
| ___ Store (source of many 99¢ downloads) | 43 |
| ___ storm (won over, as an audience) | 36 |
| ___ straight face (don't crack up) | 38 |
| ___ straight line (seamstress's feat) | 41 |
| ___ Strait (Russia-Alaska separator) | 36 |
| ___ Straits ("Brothers in Arms" band) | 47 |
| ___ Strauss & Co. (jeans company) | 37 |
| ___ Strauss and Co.(jeans company) | 34 |
| ___ Street (London newspaper hub) | 33 |
| ___ Street, Perry Mason's secretary | 39 |
| ___ Strip (much-fought-over area) | 33 |
| ___ strut (landing gear shock absorber) | 39 |
| ___ studies (modern college major) | 34 |
| ___ Suave (Hannah Montana's friend) | 39 |
| ___ Suck Daze (annual Conway, Arkansas, festival) | 49 |
| ___ suit (baggy '40s outfit) | 32 |
| ___ Sully Prudhomme, poet and Nobelist | 38 |
| ___ sum (Chinese flowering cabbage) | 35 |
| ___ sum (goodly amount of money) | 32 |
| ___ Sunday (one week before Easter) | 35 |
| ___ Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent | 37 |
| ___ support (computer owner's lifeline) | 43 |
| ___ supuesto (of course, in Spanish) | 36 |
| ___ Swan ("Twilight" heroine) | 39 |
| ___ Sweatshirt (Odd Future member) | 34 |
| ___ Synagogue, the oldest in the U.S. | 37 |
| ___ system (blood classification) | 33 |
| ___ system (car option, briefly) | 32 |
| ___ system (way of classifying blood) | 37 |
| ___ system (way of classifying human blood) | 43 |
| ___ Systems (computer networking company) | 41 |
| ___ Systems, computer networking giant | 38 |
| ___ Szyslak of "The Simpsons" | 39 |
| ___ T's (brand of pierogies) | 32 |
| ___ T'ung, Chinese emperor: 1908-12 | 39 |
| ___ T'ung, last Chinese emperor | 35 |
| ___ T. (big name in 1960s music) | 32 |
| ___ tab (let the charges accumulate) | 36 |
| ___ table (chemistry class topic) | 33 |
| ___ Tafari, a.k.a. Haile Selassie | 33 |
| ___ Tagesspiegel (German newspaper) | 35 |
| ___ talionis (an eye for an eye) | 32 |
| ___ talks (annual idea conferences) | 35 |
| ___ Tamid (ever-burning synagogue lamp) | 39 |
| ___ Tasty (McDonald's sandwich) | 35 |
| ___ Tatin (French apple dessert) | 32 |
| ___ Taylor (women's clothing brand) | 39 |
| ___ Taylor (women's clothing chain) | 39 |
| ___ Taylor LOFT (clothing store) | 32 |
| ___ Taylor Loft (women's store) | 35 |
| ___ Taylor, memorable musicologist | 34 |
| ___ Taylor, old sitcom character | 32 |
| ___ Taylor, women's clothing chain | 38 |
| ___ Te Ching (classical Chinese text) | 37 |
| ___ Technica (tech news website) | 32 |
| ___ Technica (technology website) | 33 |
| ___ telescope (reflector at Palomar Observatory) | 48 |
| ___ tenens (temporary substitute) | 33 |
| ___ Terre in the French West Indies | 35 |
| ___ Terre, Guadeloupe's capital | 35 |
| ___ terribles (little troublemakers) | 36 |
| ___ Territory (Compromise of 1850 creation) | 43 |
| ___ test (evaluation given to newborns) | 39 |
| ___ test (paternity case evidence) | 34 |
| ___ test, given to newborn babies | 33 |
| ___ tetra (bright aquarium fish) | 32 |
| ___ Tha ("The King and I" role) | 41 |
| ___ Thai (official name of Thailand) | 36 |
| ___ than (what "<" means in math) | 46 |
| ___ Thanksgiving Day Parade (N.Y.C. event) | 42 |
| ___ Thérèse (French queen) | 32 |
| ___ the Admiralty (U.K. naval brass) | 36 |
| ___ the ante (makes more expensive) | 35 |
| ___ the Bear (Muppets character) | 32 |
| ___ the Beautiful (Armenian king of legend) | 43 |
| ___ the beginning (present from the start) | 42 |