| Special-___ (football players used only in specific situations) | 63 |
| Special CD release ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | 59 |
| Speaker's platform at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame speech | 59 |
| Speaker's challenge scrambled three times in this puzzle | 60 |
| Speaker who declares wrong winner of the Lady Spud pageant? (9) | 63 |
| Speaker of the quote, whose show premiered in syndication 1/5/1961 | 66 |
| Speakeasy haters, in the "Boardwalk Empire" era | 57 |
| Spatula hung from the Jaguars' scoreboard (if X=9)? | 55 |
| Spat between priests who wore the same garment to a party? | 58 |
| Spartan's response to "How much does it hurt?" | 60 |
| Spartan cheerleader portrayer on "Saturday Night Live" | 64 |
| Spars in the ring, and features of the four longest puzzle answers | 66 |
| Sparks's placement service for prison personnel? | 52 |
| Spanish-speaking Muppet on "Sesame Street" | 52 |
| Spanish tennis star nicknamed "The King of Clay" | 58 |
| Spanish saint who wrote the encyclopedic "Etymologiae" | 64 |
| Spanish queen who was given the title "the Catholic" | 62 |
| Spanish priest who famously opposed the conquistadors | 53 |
| Spanish painter called "El Divino": 16th century | 58 |
| Spanish newspaper whose name means "The Country" | 58 |
| Spanish NBA player who explodes in a volatile fuel mix? | 55 |
| Spanish midfielder Hernandez's nose for economics? | 54 |
| Spanish man's name that means "peaceful" | 54 |
| Spanish form of "to be" after "tú" | 57 |
| Spanish conquistador who searched for the Seven Cities of Gold | 62 |
| Spanish actress Pataky of "Fast & Furious 6" | 58 |
| Spanish actress often seen on "The Love Boat" | 55 |
| Spanish actress Chaplin (Charlie's granddaughter) | 53 |
| Spam header targeted toward men, and a hint to this week's theme | 68 |
| Space traveler's eventful journey? [Ford, Honda] | 52 |
| Space opera starring Kanye as Jar Jar and Fergie as C-3PO? | 58 |
| Space between Connecticut Avenue and St. Charles Place | 54 |
| Spa treatment that might include two cucumber slices | 52 |
| Soviet foreign affairs minister during the Cuban missile crisis | 63 |
| Sovereign's __ (part of the British Crown Jewels) | 53 |
| Sovereign's __ (one of the British Crown Jewels) | 52 |
| Southwestern national park, or the primary plant that grows there | 65 |
| Southern university with the motto "Numen lumen" | 58 |
| Southern university whose newspaper is the Hullabaloo | 53 |
| Southern university whose campus is a botanical garden | 54 |
| Southern university that shares its name with a biblical judge | 62 |
| Southern Living's "#1 must-have plant" | 52 |
| Southern hip-hop portmanteau meaning "respected" | 58 |
| Southern county that gave its name to a squirrel stew | 53 |
| Southern connector between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans | 58 |
| Southern city known as the Horse Capital of the World | 53 |
| Southern Christian Leadership Conference president after King | 61 |
| Southern California city that sounds like a surprised greeting | 62 |
| Southern alma mater of Olympian Lolo Jones, for short | 53 |
| Southeastern town dubbed "Brick City" in the 1880s | 60 |
| Southeast China region which was a Portuguese province until 1999 | 65 |
| Southeast Asian nation with delicious bread and cheese | 54 |
| South-central U.S. city named for a woman in English literature | 63 |
| South Station-to-Grand Central Station travel option | 52 |
| South Pacific country that won its independence in 1962 | 55 |
| South Frigid Zone and South Temperate zone separator | 52 |
| South American setting of Hitchcock's "Notorious" | 63 |
| South American coastal region that includes Suriname | 52 |
| South American city to be blamed, per a 1984 movie title | 56 |
| South American "supergrain" in health stores | 54 |
| South African town that was Nelson Mandela's birthplace | 59 |
| South African military hero for whom a gold rand is named | 57 |
| South African gold discovery site, with "the" | 55 |
| South African conflict at the turn of the 20th century | 54 |
| South African "Cry Freedom" activist Stephen | 54 |
| Sources of halite--that's a type of evaporitic deposit! | 59 |
| Source of William the Conqueror's Tower of London stone | 59 |
| Source of the words "zenith" and "nadir" | 60 |
| Source of the words "mamba" and "chimpanzee" | 64 |
| Source of the saying "Brevity is the soul of wit" | 59 |
| Source of the phrase "pomp and circumstance" | 54 |
| Source of the maxim "Four legs good, two legs bad" | 60 |
| Source of the line "What's done is done" | 54 |
| Source of the line "Thy money perish with thee" | 57 |
| Source of the line "They say miracles are past" | 57 |
| Source of the line "Something wicked this way comes" | 62 |
| Source of the line "Hope springs eternal ..." | 55 |
| Source of the line "Frailty, thy name is woman!" | 58 |
| Source of the line "Each of us bears his own Hell" | 60 |
| Source of the all-time best-selling movie-related toy line | 58 |
| Source of most of the names in "The Lion King" | 56 |
| Source of money that's "spread" in nine puzzle answers | 68 |
| Source of many English words that come to us via French | 55 |
| Source of late election returns, with "the" | 53 |
| Source of furniture you'll throw out in three years | 55 |
| Source of an essential oil with medicinal properties | 52 |
| Source of about half the world's diamonds: Abbr. | 52 |
| Source of a "giant sucking sound," according to Ross Perot | 68 |
| Source of "Woe to them that are at ease in Zion" | 58 |
| Source of "they shall beat their swords into plowshares" | 66 |
| Source of "The True North strong and free!" | 53 |
| Source of "Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away" | 66 |
| Source of "let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die" | 69 |
| Source of "It is more blessed to give than to receive" | 64 |
| Source of "I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep" | 65 |
| Source material for Broadway's "Seussical" | 56 |
| Source for Wagner's "The Ring of the Nibelung" | 60 |
| Source for the tune of "It's Now or Never" | 56 |
| Soup served during the Vietnamese independence movement? | 56 |
| Soup enjoyed throughout the land of the Golden Horde? | 53 |