| ___ shoestring | 14 |
| ___ shoes (ballet wear) | 23 |
| ___ shoe | 8 |
| ___ shock syndrome | 18 |
| ___ shock (price-tag panic) | 27 |
| ___ shirt (colorful short-sleeved attire) | 41 |
| ___ shirt (colorful garment) | 28 |
| ___ shirt | 9 |
| ___ Shinrikyo (Japanese group that carried out a 1995 sarin attack in Tokyo) | 76 |
| ___ Shinrikyo (Japanese cult in 1995 news) | 42 |
| ___ shine | 9 |
| ___ Shikibu, Japanese poet | 26 |
| ___ shift (newspaper's night relay) | 39 |
| ___ shibah (mourn in Israel) | 28 |
| ___ Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet | 30 |
| ___ Sherman (luxury cigarettes) | 31 |
| ___ Sherman | 11 |
| ___ Sheraton (hotel company) | 28 |
| ___ Shelly, writer/director/co-star of "Waitress," 2007 | 65 |
| ___ sheet (guidelines) | 22 |
| ___ sheet (builder's instructions) | 38 |
| ___ sheet (bigots' tabloid) | 31 |
| ___ sheet (arrest record) | 25 |
| ___ sheet | 9 |
| ___ Sheen (hair product) | 24 |
| ___ Shâm (Syria, to an Arab) | 31 |
| ___ Sharp, founder of Four Seasons Hotels | 41 |
| ___ Sharon | 10 |
| ___ Sharkey, Rickles role | 25 |
| ___ shark | 9 |
| ___ Sharett, Israel's first foreign minister, 1949-56 | 57 |
| ___ share alike | 15 |
| ___ share | 9 |
| ___ shape (pathetic) | 20 |
| ___ shanter (Scottish topper) | 29 |
| ___ Shannon | 11 |
| ___ Shankar, sitar strummer | 27 |
| ___ Shankar | 11 |
| ___ Shan, central Asian range | 29 |
| ___ Shan, Asian range | 21 |
| ___ Shan, Asian mountain system | 31 |
| ___ Shan (National Zoo panda born in 2005) | 42 |
| ___ Shan (mountain range) | 25 |
| ___ Shan (Asian range) | 22 |
| ___ Shams University, in Cairo | 30 |
| ___ shaming | 11 |
| ___ shame (rout in a bout) | 26 |
| ___ shame (mortify) | 19 |
| ___ shame (abash) | 17 |
| ___ shame | 9 |
| ___ Shaker (band with the 1996 hit "Govinda") | 55 |
| ___ Shaker | 10 |
| ___ Shah Pahlevi | 16 |
| ___ Shah Pahlavi | 16 |
| ___ shaft | 9 |
| ___ Shady | 9 |
| ___ shadow of one's former self | 35 |
| ___ shadow | 10 |
| ___ sgt. (police rank) | 22 |
| ___ sgt. | 8 |
| ___ Severo, Italy | 17 |
| ___ Seven (infomercial cleaner) | 31 |
| ___ seul (solo dance) | 21 |
| ___ seul (dance solo) | 21 |
| ___ seul (ballet solo) | 22 |
| ___ seul | 8 |
| ___ Settlements, former British colony | 38 |
| ___ setter, popular pet | 23 |
| ___ Setter | 10 |
| ___ Seton, author of "My Theodosia" | 45 |
| ___ Seton, author of "Dragonwyck" | 43 |
| ___ Seton, "My Theodosia" author | 42 |
| ___ Seton, "Dragonwyck" author | 40 |
| ___ Set (toy for a brainy kid) | 30 |
| ___ set (tool assortment) | 25 |
| ___ Set (kid's builder) | 27 |
| ___ set (group of tools) | 24 |
| ___ set (future engineer's toy) | 35 |
| ___ Set (classic toy) | 21 |
| ___ Set (building game) | 23 |
| ___ set | 7 |
| ___ session | 11 |
| ___ Sese Seko of Zaire | 22 |
| ___ sesame | 10 |
| ___ service (promoter's strength) | 37 |
| ___ Service | 11 |
| ___ server (site from which to download) | 40 |
| ___ serrata (retina part) | 25 |
| ___ serpent (fer-de-lance) | 26 |
| ___ serif typeface | 18 |
| ___ serif (typeface) | 20 |
| ___ serif (type style) | 22 |
| ___ serif (plain type style) | 28 |
| ___ serif (font choice) | 23 |
| ___ serif | 9 |
| ___ Series | 10 |
| ___ Seri Begawan (Brunei's capital) | 39 |
| ___ sequitur | 12 |
| ___ sequence | 12 |
| ___ septal defect (heart problem) | 33 |