| Start of a quote by Rep. Mo Udall, 1990, regarding the Presidency | 65 |
| Start of a quote from "The Simpsons" by Mr. Burns | 59 |
| Start of a quote on obstinacy by James Russell Lowell | 53 |
| Start of a rejected suitor's "sour grapes" | 56 |
| Start of a retort that ends "but names will never hurt me" | 68 |
| Start of a rhyming song title featuring a little Spanish | 56 |
| Start of a rule that keeps you from spelling weirdly? | 53 |
| Start of a sentence said while squinting at small print | 55 |
| Start of a Shakespeare line that ends "Then fall, Caesar" | 67 |
| Start of a sub-headline that ran in the WSJ sports section on 4/1/14 | 68 |
| Start of a thought by British journalist Miles Kington | 54 |
| Start of a website manager's email address, maybe | 53 |
| Start of a word ladder (and the starting point of the journey) | 62 |
| Start of advice from Susan DiLallo's grandmother, Rose | 58 |
| Start of an agreement that's not really an agreement | 56 |
| Start of an edgy person's description of himself | 52 |
| Start of an English rule, and this puzzle's theme | 53 |
| Start of an Ernie Kovacs observation about television | 53 |
| Start of an excerpt from an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem | 56 |
| Start of an ironic quote from a certain Yale graduate | 53 |
| Start of first phrase meaning "approximately unequal"? | 64 |
| Start of Iago's Act II aria in "Otello" | 53 |
| Start of instructions for what to do when this puzzle is done | 61 |
| Start of second phrase meaning "approximately unequal"? | 65 |
| Start of Stephano's song in "The Tempest" | 55 |
| Start of the last line in "The Star-Spangled Banner" | 62 |
| Start of the last line of "The Star-Spangled Banner" | 62 |
| Start of the line that ends "Then fall, Caesar" | 57 |
| Start of the line that includes "wherefore art thou" | 62 |
| Start of the Martin Luther King Jr. Street Historic Walking Tour | 64 |
| Start of the names of three of the 10 most populous U.S. cities | 63 |
| Start of the writing on the wall interpreted by Daniel | 54 |
| Start to ''plunk'' or ''plop'' | 62 |
| Start with ''boy!'' or ''girl!'' | 64 |
| Start with ''Cone'' or ''Cat'' | 62 |
| Started production on a movie that would ultimately earn zero stars? | 68 |
| Starter for ''fast'' or ''sayer'' | 65 |
| Starter for ''star'' or ''power'' | 65 |
| Starting a tic-tac-toe game at one of the edges, say | 52 |
| Starting catcher in every All-Star Game from 1964 to 1967 | 57 |
| Starting Miami quarterback in three straight '70s Super Bowls | 65 |
| Starting pistol ammo mixed with construction site dirt? | 55 |
| Starting sound of "civic" (but not the ending sound) | 62 |
| Startled query from an inattentive player on the bench | 54 |
| Stat helped by classes like "Rocks for Jocks" | 55 |
| Stat in which Alex Rodriguez leads all active players | 53 |
| State after being coldcocked (and a clue to this puzzle's theme) | 68 |
| State capital nicknamed "The City of Four Lakes" | 58 |
| State capital whose main street is Last Chance Gulch | 52 |
| State capital whose main street is named Last Chance Gulch | 58 |
| State capital whose site was visited by Lewis and Clark | 55 |
| State dispute section of America's first constitution | 57 |
| State for which "Animal Farm" is an allegory | 54 |
| State in which Craters of the Moon monument is located | 54 |
| State in which Obama didn't even think about campaigning in 2012 | 68 |
| State in which the first transcontinental railroad was joined | 61 |
| State name meaning "people of the mountains" | 54 |
| State short forms strung together in 12 long answers in this puzzle | 67 |
| State that gives the highest percentage of income to charity | 60 |
| State that hosts the "World's Largest Music Festival" | 67 |
| State that is home to the Natl. Teachers Hall of Fame | 53 |
| State that shares a 48-mile border with British Columbia | 56 |
| State that's bisected by a same-named river (abbr.) | 55 |
| State that's only nine mi. wide at its narrowest point | 58 |
| State whose eight official songs include "Rocky Top" | 62 |
| State whose license plate says "Famous Potatoes" | 58 |
| State whose quarter depicts mustangs and sagebrush: Abbr. | 57 |
| State whose quarter says "Crossroads of America": Abbr. | 65 |
| State with "Greatest snow on earth" license plates | 60 |
| State with a recent controversy over the teaching of evolution: Abbr. | 69 |
| State with roughly the same population as Boston, MA | 52 |
| State with the counties Tuscaloosa and Tallapoosa: Abbr. | 56 |
| State with the longest tidal shoreline on the Atlantic | 54 |
| Stated more often than was necessary to have been stated | 56 |
| Stated overreaction to disliking "The Gift of the Magi" | 65 |
| Stately thing in Browning's "Oh, to be in England ..." | 68 |
| Statement after Vietnamese emperor Bao Dai's abdication in 1945? | 68 |
| Statement before singing each hit featured in this puzzle? | 58 |
| Statement of understanding by a hospital administrator? | 55 |
| Statesman known as "The Great Compromiser" | 52 |
| Statesman known popularly as Panditji, or "Scholar" | 61 |
| Station on which "Star Trek: Voyager" debuted | 55 |
| Station on which Will Shortz appears as "Puzzlemaster" | 64 |
| Station on which Will Shortz appears as Puzzlemaster | 52 |
| Station showing ''Sex and the City'' reruns | 59 |
| Station that exclusively plays rapper MC's hits? | 52 |
| Station that's often on at the old folks' home | 54 |
| Station where Larry King will host his final show this December | 63 |
| Station with reruns of "The Joker's Wild": Abbr. | 62 |
| Statistical method for comparing the means of two groups | 56 |
| Statistical tool first used to monitor the quality of stout | 59 |
| Statuette shaped like a winged woman holding an atom | 52 |
| Status accorded by one state to another in worldwide trade (abbr.) | 66 |
| Status honored during the diagonal occasion, in April | 53 |
| Status-seeking sort ... or a solver of this puzzle, initially? | 62 |
| Statute read from an ice cream truck in "Fahrenheit 9/11" | 67 |
| Steadfast belief (and parent of each answer to a starred clue?) | 63 |
| Steakhouse order, or what's left over when finished | 55 |
| Stealth song off "Morrison Hotel" (with "The")? | 67 |
| Steed and Mrs. Peel's show, with "The" | 52 |