Clues starting with ‘S’
Back to indexSteep vertical or overhanging rock face
February 27, 2025
Steeped barley
March 9, 2025
Steer
March 4, 2025
Steer a ship
January 18, 2025
Steered a ship’s wheel
January 18, 2025
Step on a ladder
February 2, 2025
Stepped down from a carriage
February 24, 2025
Steve McQueen’s (amorphous 1958) sci-fi nemesis
April 12, 2025
Steve McQueen’s monster
December 29, 2024
Stew
April 11, 2025
Sticking up for, in the biggest possible way
February 16, 2025
Sticks used in Brazilian & Cuban music to mark rhythm
March 6, 2025
Sticky
April 14, 2025 • January 19, 2025
Sticky thick salve or ointment, like Mother Burg’s Salve
March 16, 2025
Stiff
March 5, 2025
Stimulate, provoke, or quicken
April 4, 2025
Sting-y plant
April 6, 2025
Stinging plant
January 17, 2025
Stinky tropical fruit
February 2, 2025
Stir up, encourage, or roil, especially trouble
April 4, 2025 • January 22, 2025
Stock market recovery
March 25, 2025
Stolen goods
January 1, 2025
Stomach complaint
January 27, 2025
Stone Age -ish
April 6, 2025
Stone in compound words
April 6, 2025 • February 21, 2025
Stone monument
April 1, 2025
Stop
February 13, 2025 • January 5, 2025
Stop, Drop, _____
December 29, 2024
Stopper hole in a cask
February 25, 2025
Stopping
February 7, 2025
Storage box
January 24, 2025
Store for bagels, pastrami sandwiches, and an onion bialy
January 4, 2025
Storefront shade-maker
February 16, 2025
Story telling
February 5, 2025
Stove, toaster oven, or refrigerator
February 23, 2025
Straight hereditary descent
February 23, 2025
Straight path from honeysuckle to hive
April 19, 2025
Straight-backed balletic squat with feet pointing in opposite directions
February 23, 2025
Straightforward though perhaps rude
April 15, 2025
Strategic
January 20, 2025
Strategic plan
January 20, 2025
Strategist, expert, or planner
March 19, 2025
Strategy
April 17, 2025
Straw covered roof
March 19, 2025
Streaked, marked, or patterned with thin lines
February 3, 2025
Streamlined
January 17, 2025
Streep’s ‘Sophie’s ____’
March 30, 2025
Street
April 9, 2025 • March 24, 2025 • January 11, 2025
Streisand or pointy part of a fish hook
February 15, 2025
Stretch car
March 22, 2025
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