| Stephen of Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" | 74 |
| Steven Bochco drama with an Emmy for the episode "The Venus Butterfly" | 80 |
| Stolen racehorse in the Sherlock Holmes story featuring “the curious incident of the dog in the night-time” | 115 |
| Stone that's "cut" in this puzzle's four longest answers | 74 |
| Stones "Any minute, any ___, I'm waiting on a call from you" | 74 |
| Stop at this North Dakota region that was the inspiration for a folk song | 73 |
| Store for athletes seeking protection? (And, onsides, what each of this puzzle's starred entries refers to) | 111 |
| Stormers of Saruman's fortress, in "The Lord of the Rings" | 72 |
| Story of a hero's less-than-successful early years before he got the sword idea? | 84 |
| Straight-to-video knockoff, such as "Transmorphers" or "The Da Vinci Treasure" | 98 |
| Stranded at the ski lodge, perhaps, and a hint to this puzzle's hidden theme | 80 |
| Strapless, sleeveless women's garment that covers the breasts and part of the midriff | 89 |
| Stream of radioactive particles with the lowest penetration of ordinary objects | 79 |
| Street food magnate who failed despite having food from every continent? | 72 |
| Strip that accompanied Sunday "Dixie Dugan" comics in the 1930s | 73 |
| Strongest theory of where the next "Real Housewives" show will be set? | 80 |
| Studio behind "Gone with the Wind" and "Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London" | 99 |
| Studio group whose Alka-Seltzer song "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)" became a Top 10 hit in 1966 | 121 |
| Studio that produced Hitchcock's "Suspicion" and "Notorious" | 84 |
| Stuff people want legalized so they can make shampoo and shirts (yeah, right) | 77 |
| Stuffed animals sold with secret codes that unlock virtual on-line versions of them | 83 |
| Style appellation thrown around a lot, almost never in self-identification | 74 |
| Subject of "The Word" on the first episode of "The Colbert Report" | 86 |
| Subject of a 2006 biography subtitled "A Legend Like Lightning" | 73 |
| Subject of a 2006 biography with the subtitle "Sittin' on Top of the World" | 89 |
| Subject of a children's song associated with the vowels in the answer to each starred clue | 94 |
| Subject of a documentary subtitled "Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" | 85 |
| Subject of a lesson for Katharina in "The Taming of the Shrew" | 72 |
| Subject of a Manhattan museum near Madison Square Park whose entrance door handles are shaped like the letter pi | 112 |
| Subject of a Manhattan museum near Madison Square Park whose entrance door handles are shaped like the letter X | 111 |
| Subject of an annual March 14 celebration and of this puzzle, celebrated in both a literal and a numerical way in the first square of the starred answers, reading left to right | 177 |
| Subject of James Carville's "... And the Horse He Rode In On" | 75 |
| Subject of Ruth Montgomery's biography "A Gift of Prophecy" | 73 |
| Subject of the 1928 novelty song "Henry's Made a Lady Out of Lizzie" | 82 |
| Subject of the 1999 biography subtitled "The Little Giant of Baseball" | 80 |
| Subject of the 2007 biography subtitled "The Man Who Became a Book" | 77 |
| Subject of the biography "The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century" | 79 |
| Subject of the Final Jeopardy! question that knocked out Ken Jennings after a record 74 wins ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme | 133 |
| Subject of the lyric "A horse is a horse, of course, of course" | 73 |
| Subject of the mnemonic "My very eager mother just served us nachos" | 78 |
| Subject of the poem with the words "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" | 76 |
| Subject of the Rolling Stones' "Mother's Little Helper" | 73 |
| Subject of the song "Tell Me, Trudy, Who Is Going to Be the Lucky One?" | 81 |
| Subject of the third movement of Respighi's "Fontane di Roma" | 75 |
| Subject that includes women's suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment | 73 |
| Subscription-based journalism site that bills itself as "the program with nothing to hide" | 100 |
| Substance under Little Cat Z's hat in "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back" | 83 |
| Substance whose synthesis required a "life force," alchemists believed | 80 |
| Successor of Bernadette and Cheryl in the revival of "Annie Get Your Gun" | 83 |
| Sudden reductions in loan availability, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 77 |
| Sue Ann __, Betty White's role on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" | 75 |
| Suffix with ''president'' or ''proverb'' | 72 |
| Suggestion uttered by Nate Dogg at the end of Dr. Dre's "The Next Episode" (The views and opinions expressed in this answer are not necessarily shared by The Cross Nerd Inc.) | 188 |
| Summer blazer, which can come before the starts of this puzzle's four longest answers | 89 |
| Summer coolers, briefly, and a hint to this puzzle's six longest answers | 76 |
| Summit attendee, and what the first word can be in each answer to a starred clue | 80 |
| Super Bowl in which Miami completed the NFL's only perfect season ever | 74 |
| Super Bowl XXI M.V.P., first to say "I'm going to Disney World!" | 78 |
| Superlative qualifier added to a childish argument in hopes of eliminating any potential for a further retort (of course, anyone who's been involved in a childish argument knows that you can just add | 203 |
| Supermodel host of the version of "Project Runway" shown in Canada | 76 |
| Supermodel who appeared in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" | 77 |
| Supporter of class struggle who also happens to run a Fortune 500 company? | 74 |
| Supposed psychoactive substance outlined in "The Anarchist Cookbook" | 78 |
| Supreme Court justice known for a literalist interpretation of the Bill of Rights | 81 |
| Surname of literary characters Noah, Tom, Al, Rosasharn, Ruthie, and Winfield | 78 |
| Surname of the Beast's head housekeeper (which ended up ironically apt after the curse, I mean, what are the odds?) | 119 |
| Surrealist painter whose best-known painting shows up often in college dorm rooms | 81 |
| Surrealist who avoided the draft by writing the day's date in every space on his induction paperwork | 104 |
| Surviving Milli Vanilli member [avxword.com is home to the best indie xwords - subscribe today] | 95 |
| Susan who filled in for vacationing Bernadette Peters in "Annie Get Your Gun" | 87 |
| Susan who was the original Belle in Broadway's "Beauty and the Beast" | 83 |
| Suspected spy's fashionable garb, in Simon and Garfunkel's "America" | 86 |
| Sutton Foster's role in Broadway's "Young Frankenstein" | 73 |
| Swedish soccer player Sundhage who coached the U.S. women's team to two Olympic golds | 89 |
| Sweet talk that may be subjected to a "don't ask, don't tell" policy? | 87 |
| Swift lyric "And I left my ___ at your sister's house ..." | 72 |
| Swimmer Kristin ___, the first woman to win six gold medals at a single Olympics | 80 |
| Swing both ways, and a literal hint to how four puzzle answers were created | 75 |
| Swiss band with "Oh, Yeah" (as heard in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off") | 91 |
| Swiss mathmetician Daniel whose eponymous principle led to the carburetor and airplane wing | 91 |
| Syllable between "do wah diddy diddy" and "diddy do" | 72 |
| Sylvia Plath poem featuring the line “I know it with my great tap root” | 79 |
| Sylvia Plath poem that begins "I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root" | 103 |
| Sylvia ___, whom Sinatra once called the "world's greatest saloon singer" | 87 |
| Symbol on the film poster for Eastwood's "Hang 'Em High" | 74 |
| Symphonic ode to a nation by Elgar that includes quotations from "Warszawianka" | 89 |
| Symphony whose second movement is marked "Marcia funebre. Adagio assai" | 81 |
| Synthpop group that won a 1986 Grammy for its version of Mancini's "Peter Gunn" theme | 99 |
| System of a Down "This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like ___ This Song" | 74 |