| Like a shrinking violet | 23 |
| Like a sidewalk café | 23 |
| Like a sideways glance | 22 |
| Like a singer/songwriter | 24 |
| Like a single-performer show | 28 |
| Like a six-year celebration | 27 |
| Like a skink's skin | 23 |
| Like a skunk's defense | 26 |
| Like a slacker between albums | 29 |
| Like a sleazy promoter | 22 |
| Like a sleeping kitten | 22 |
| Like a sleeping newborn | 23 |
| Like a slick wintry road | 24 |
| Like a slide rule or abacus | 27 |
| Like a slim chance, oddly | 25 |
| Like a slingshot handle | 23 |
| Like a sloop in a storm | 23 |
| Like a slug's trail | 23 |
| Like a small family farm, say | 29 |
| Like a small farm, perhaps | 26 |
| Like a smoke-filled room | 24 |
| Like a smooth operator | 22 |
| Like a snail's trail | 24 |
| Like a snake's eyes | 23 |
| Like a snake's tongue | 25 |
| Like a snake-oil salesman | 25 |
| Like a snob's nose | 22 |
| Like a snood, commonly | 22 |
| Like a snowy landscape | 22 |
| Like a so-so movie rating | 25 |
| Like a sock without a mate | 26 |
| Like a soft, clingy gown | 24 |
| Like a soldier at attention | 27 |
| Like a solemn observance | 24 |
| Like a sombrero's brim | 26 |
| Like a song by Puccini | 22 |
| Like a sophist's argument | 29 |
| Like a Sophocles tragedy | 24 |
| Like a soprano's voice | 26 |
| Like a sot's speech | 23 |
| Like a sound investment | 23 |
| Like a soup kitchen habitue | 27 |
| Like a South American range | 27 |
| Like a Southwestern desert | 26 |
| Like a Spartan's speech | 27 |
| Like a spent briquette | 22 |
| Like a spit over a fire | 23 |
| Like a spitz's ears | 23 |
| Like a spoiled kid, often | 25 |
| Like a sports car, briefly | 26 |
| Like a spud-slicing GI | 22 |
| Like a spunky paramour? | 23 |
| Like a spurned pawnbroker | 25 |
| Like a squeezed orange | 22 |
| Like a squid's discharge | 28 |
| Like a squid's squirt | 25 |
| Like a squid's weapon | 25 |
| Like a stadium after a homer | 28 |
| Like a stadium without a dome | 29 |
| Like a star footballer | 22 |
| Like a star's empire | 24 |
| Like a stare after an insult | 28 |
| Like a start-up business | 24 |
| Like a steak on a black eye | 27 |
| Like a Stephen King novel | 25 |
| Like a Stephen King story | 25 |
| Like a Stephen King work | 24 |
| Like a stereotypical beggar | 27 |
| Like a stereotypical dungeon | 28 |
| Like a stereotypical Nordic | 27 |
| Like a stick in the mud | 23 |
| Like a stick-in-the-mud | 23 |
| Like a stoner's thoughts | 28 |
| Like a storied duckling | 23 |
| Like a stormy winter day | 24 |
| Like a storybook duckling | 25 |
| Like a street after sleet | 25 |
| Like a stretched circle | 23 |
| Like a stubborn critter | 23 |
| Like a stubborn hombre | 22 |
| Like a student's D | 22 |
| Like a studio apartment | 23 |
| Like a studio, generally | 24 |
| Like a stumped puzzle solver? | 29 |
| Like a stuntman's deeds | 27 |
| Like a subdued trumpet | 22 |
| Like a successful marathoner? | 29 |
| Like a successful seer | 22 |
| Like a successful soufflé | 28 |
| Like a successful turnaround | 28 |
| Like a sudden outburst | 22 |
| Like a suit with a vest | 23 |
| Like a sunken treasure? | 23 |
| Like a superannuated salt | 25 |
| Like a supporting wall | 22 |
| Like a supportive crowd | 23 |
| Like a surgeon's hands | 26 |
| Like a surrey's top? | 24 |
| Like a swan's feet | 22 |
| Like a sweep's uniform | 26 |