| System of a Down "This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like ___ This Song" | 74 |
| Synthpop group that won a 1986 Grammy for its version of Mancini's "Peter Gunn" theme | 99 |
| Symphony whose second movement is marked "Marcia funebre. Adagio assai" | 81 |
| Symphonic ode to a nation by Elgar that includes quotations from "Warszawianka" | 89 |
| Symbol on the film poster for Eastwood's "Hang 'Em High" | 74 |
| Sylvia ___, whom Sinatra once called the "world's greatest saloon singer" | 87 |
| Sylvia Plath poem that begins "I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root" | 103 |
| Sylvia Plath poem featuring the line “I know it with my great tap root” | 79 |
| Syllable between "do wah diddy diddy" and "diddy do" | 72 |
| Swiss mathmetician Daniel whose eponymous principle led to the carburetor and airplane wing | 91 |
| Swiss band with "Oh, Yeah" (as heard in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off") | 91 |
| Swing both ways, and a literal hint to how four puzzle answers were created | 75 |
| Swimmer Kristin ___, the first woman to win six gold medals at a single Olympics | 80 |
| Swift lyric "And I left my ___ at your sister's house ..." | 72 |
| Sweet talk that may be subjected to a "don't ask, don't tell" policy? | 87 |
| Swedish soccer player Sundhage who coached the U.S. women's team to two Olympic golds | 89 |
| Sutton Foster's role in Broadway's "Young Frankenstein" | 73 |
| Suspected spy's fashionable garb, in Simon and Garfunkel's "America" | 86 |
| Susan who was the original Belle in Broadway's "Beauty and the Beast" | 83 |
| Susan who filled in for vacationing Bernadette Peters in "Annie Get Your Gun" | 87 |
| Surviving Milli Vanilli member [avxword.com is home to the best indie xwords - subscribe today] | 95 |
| Surrealist who avoided the draft by writing the day's date in every space on his induction paperwork | 104 |
| Surrealist painter whose best-known painting shows up often in college dorm rooms | 81 |
| Surname of the Beast's head housekeeper (which ended up ironically apt after the curse, I mean, what are the odds?) | 119 |
| Surname of literary characters Noah, Tom, Al, Rosasharn, Ruthie, and Winfield | 78 |
| Supreme Court justice known for a literalist interpretation of the Bill of Rights | 81 |
| Supposed psychoactive substance outlined in "The Anarchist Cookbook" | 78 |
| Supporter of class struggle who also happens to run a Fortune 500 company? | 74 |
| Supermodel who appeared in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" | 77 |
| Supermodel host of the version of "Project Runway" shown in Canada | 76 |
| 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 |
| Super Bowl XXI M.V.P., first to say "I'm going to Disney World!" | 78 |
| Super Bowl in which Miami completed the NFL's only perfect season ever | 74 |
| Summit attendee, and what the first word can be in each answer to a starred clue | 80 |
| Summer coolers, briefly, and a hint to this puzzle's six longest answers | 76 |
| Summer blazer, which can come before the starts of this puzzle's four longest answers | 89 |
| 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 |
| Suffix with ''president'' or ''proverb'' | 72 |
| Sue Ann __, Betty White's role on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" | 75 |
| Sudden reductions in loan availability, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 77 |
| Successor of Bernadette and Cheryl in the revival of "Annie Get Your Gun" | 83 |
| Substance whose synthesis required a "life force," alchemists believed | 80 |
| Substance under Little Cat Z's hat in "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back" | 83 |
| Subscription-based journalism site that bills itself as "the program with nothing to hide" | 100 |
| Subject that includes women's suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment | 73 |
| Subject of the third movement of Respighi's "Fontane di Roma" | 75 |
| Subject of the song "Tell Me, Trudy, Who Is Going to Be the Lucky One?" | 81 |
| Subject of the Rolling Stones' "Mother's Little Helper" | 73 |
| Subject of the poem with the words "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" | 76 |
| Subject of the mnemonic "My very eager mother just served us nachos" | 78 |
| Subject of the lyric "A horse is a horse, of course, of course" | 73 |
| 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 biography "The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century" | 79 |
| Subject of the 2007 biography subtitled "The Man Who Became a Book" | 77 |
| Subject of the 1999 biography subtitled "The Little Giant of Baseball" | 80 |
| Subject of the 1928 novelty song "Henry's Made a Lady Out of Lizzie" | 82 |
| Subject of Ruth Montgomery's biography "A Gift of Prophecy" | 73 |
| Subject of James Carville's "... And the Horse He Rode In On" | 75 |
| 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 a Manhattan museum near Madison Square Park whose entrance door handles are shaped like the letter X | 111 |
| Subject of a Manhattan museum near Madison Square Park whose entrance door handles are shaped like the letter pi | 112 |
| Subject of a lesson for Katharina in "The Taming of the Shrew" | 72 |
| Subject of a documentary subtitled "Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" | 85 |
| Subject of a children's song associated with the vowels in the answer to each starred clue | 94 |
| Subject of a 2006 biography with the subtitle "Sittin' on Top of the World" | 89 |
| Subject of a 2006 biography subtitled "A Legend Like Lightning" | 73 |
| Subject of "The Word" on the first episode of "The Colbert Report" | 86 |
| Style appellation thrown around a lot, almost never in self-identification | 74 |
| Stuffed animals sold with secret codes that unlock virtual on-line versions of them | 83 |
| Stuff people want legalized so they can make shampoo and shirts (yeah, right) | 77 |
| Studio that produced Hitchcock's "Suspicion" and "Notorious" | 84 |
| Studio group whose Alka-Seltzer song "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)" became a Top 10 hit in 1966 | 121 |
| Studio behind "Gone with the Wind" and "Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London" | 99 |
| Strongest theory of where the next "Real Housewives" show will be set? | 80 |
| Strip that accompanied Sunday "Dixie Dugan" comics in the 1930s | 73 |
| Street food magnate who failed despite having food from every continent? | 72 |
| Stream of radioactive particles with the lowest penetration of ordinary objects | 79 |
| Strapless, sleeveless women's garment that covers the breasts and part of the midriff | 89 |
| Stranded at the ski lodge, perhaps, and a hint to this puzzle's hidden theme | 80 |
| Straight-to-video knockoff, such as "Transmorphers" or "The Da Vinci Treasure" | 98 |
| Story of a hero's less-than-successful early years before he got the sword idea? | 84 |
| Stormers of Saruman's fortress, in "The Lord of the Rings" | 72 |
| Store for athletes seeking protection? (And, onsides, what each of this puzzle's starred entries refers to) | 111 |
| Stop at this North Dakota region that was the inspiration for a folk song | 73 |
| Stones "Any minute, any ___, I'm waiting on a call from you" | 74 |
| Stone that's "cut" in this puzzle's four longest answers | 74 |
| Stolen racehorse in the Sherlock Holmes story featuring “the curious incident of the dog in the night-time” | 115 |
| Steven Bochco drama with an Emmy for the episode "The Venus Butterfly" | 80 |
| Stephen of Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" | 74 |
| Status attained after passing the Trials of Skill, Spirit, and Knowledge | 72 |
| Statistician who on Election Day 2012 gave Obama a 91.6% chance of victory | 74 |
| Statesman Benjamin who said: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics" | 105 |
| State whose ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment ended Prohibition | 72 |
| State where Don Ho was born (or was he? let's see the REAL birth certificate, Don!) | 87 |
| State that shares the longest diagonal border in the country with California | 76 |
| State that Dan Quayle is obviously not from, based on a famous misspelling of 1992 | 82 |
| State for Snowflake, a town founded by Mormon pioneers E. Snow and W.J. Flake | 77 |
| State celebrating its 50th anniversary in January 2009 (and a hint to the three theme entries) | 94 |
| State capital whose name comes from the French for "wooded area" | 74 |
| Starting a project ... and what the letters between the starting and ending pairs of letters in each starred answer are doing? | 126 |