| Squeaky gate attachment | 23 |
| Severe, as a punishment | 23 |
| Secret writings | 15 |
| Support with a wager | 20 |
| Serious stage play | 18 |
| Shorthand taker, for short | 26 |
| Something polished in a pedicure | 32 |
| Slangy suffix with buck | 23 |
| Skillfully | 10 |
| Suffix with southwest | 21 |
| Some roofing specialists | 24 |
| Sault —, Mich. | 16 |
| Some wheel adjusters | 20 |
| Stan of jazz | 12 |
| Sticky gunk | 11 |
| Suffix of nationalities | 23 |
| Suffering, figuratively | 23 |
| Sugar alcohol used as a sweetener | 33 |
| Spellbound | 10 |
| Shrek is one | 12 |
| Successfully trap a moray? | 26 |
| Spanish fleet | 13 |
| spoiled | 7 |
| salad greens | 12 |
| serenity | 8 |
| shell out | 9 |
| sal, e.g. | 9 |
| sautes | 6 |
| sports fan | 10 |
| starched | 8 |
| Santa's helper | 14 |
| Social ... (Facebook, Instagram, and the like) | 46 |
| Said when pausing to think what to say next | 43 |
| Soul Meets Body band Death .. for Cutie | 39 |
| Sufjan Stevens made an album about this US state | 48 |
| Stick to something, like glue | 29 |
| Shaving instrument | 18 |
| Sea liquid | 10 |
| Small amount of a powder, e.g | 29 |
| Something that has no concern with the past is this | 51 |
| section of a series | 19 |
| Shelling and roasting work for loony? | 37 |
| Sodium circuit with 1001 Watts | 30 |
| stuck in the middle | 19 |
| Severely annoy | 14 |
| Smoothie berry native to South America | 38 |
| Separate or disconnect | 22 |
| Stitched edge of a cloth | 24 |
| State of the Great Salt Lake | 28 |
| Singer Lipa of "New Rules" | 26 |
| Steve Carell's "... Almighty" | 29 |
| slurs one may interrupt as individuals | 38 |
| split periodical payment | 24 |
| shrewd to keep recipe in a narrow space | 39 |
| south american member of the camel family. | 42 |
| slade and t rex were leading practitioners of .... rock. | 56 |
| Surface on which a text has been written over erased inscriptions | 65 |
| Small British rodent | 20 |
| Surname of the father-and-son prime ministers who served for more than 21 years in total | 88 |
| Swiss breakfast mix | 19 |
| Spanish name for Spain | 22 |
| Season very good for trapping black antelope | 44 |
| Seaman doing what seamen do, we hear — making a sharp descent? | 64 |
| Sport the French must carry over | 32 |
| Set about a Highland Scot | 25 |
| Scottish city's currency recognised by auditors | 47 |
| Support us in a spot | 20 |
| Scruff in Vienna personnel | 26 |
| Surgical sutures on street causes irritation | 44 |
| Shabby, scruffy | 15 |
| Scottish word for a male parent | 31 |
| Surname of Scottish crime writer Val | 36 |
| Shredded into small pieces | 26 |
| Switchboard controller | 22 |
| Sheet of muscle below the lungs | 31 |
| Stocky canine, a symbol of Britain | 34 |
| Small spring flowers | 20 |
| Small tablet is lighter | 23 |
| Senorita dances round fifty family members | 42 |
| Some clever boy doing part of sentence | 38 |
| Small head covering brings a sullen look | 40 |
| Success of narrated film part performed in aircraft | 51 |
| Stories in instalments | 22 |
| Scribbled aimlessly | 19 |
| State in western Germany, on the French border | 46 |
| Snipping, clipping | 18 |
| Sideways | 8 |
| Sponges up | 10 |
| Self-praise | 11 |
| Second-string player | 20 |
| Sportswear brand since 1938 | 27 |
| Singer Autry who was a longtime owner of the California Angels | 62 |
| Spot for an outdoor party | 25 |
| Spanish tennis player who won the men's singles championship at the 44-Across in 2024 (2 wds) | 93 |
| Super short skirt | 17 |
| Score in baseball | 17 |
| Sports organization for the Cowboys and Giants (Abbr) | 53 |
| Swabbing tool | 13 |
| Some tourneys | 13 |
| Stood stunned | 13 |
| SSW opposite | 12 |
| Scene stealers | 14 |
| Smokehouse specialty | 20 |
| Southwestern European peninsula | 31 |
| Some Dogfish Head brews | 23 |
| Smidgens | 8 |
| Seventeenth Greek letter | 24 |
| Shar ... (wrinkly dog breed) | 28 |
| Software programmer, for short | 30 |
| skin lesions and such | 21 |
| sprinter who holds the american record for fastest 200 meter dash | 65 |
| spanish for "that" | 18 |
| stretches on a mat | 18 |
| Short passage from book | 23 |
| Such work is outstanding | 24 |
| sugarcoating issues concerning inept new gop leaders | 52 |
| Simple skateboard tricks | 24 |
| Size between small and large: Abbr. | 35 |
| son of edward iii and father of henry iv | 40 |
| swamp | 5 |
| show fortified wine in transport hub | 36 |
| swindle man used in chess | 25 |
| starter of pork that is in pastry | 33 |
| son abandoning search in couple's craft | 39 |
| second grade whirlwind leading to extra litter perhaps | 54 |
| specific knitwear ready, brought in to hollywood celeb | 54 |
| sun pin-up? | 11 |
| say i'm up, conscious, oddly attending maiden conference | 56 |
| scoffed after label back-to-front becomes issue | 47 |
| swimmer with partner often seen in newspaper | 44 |
| Special handling | 16 |
| Sports section staples | 22 |
| Spins, for short | 16 |
| Speed or spree | 14 |
| Snail cousin | 12 |
| Sushi bar array | 15 |
| Settled down | 12 |
| Sarajevo citizen | 16 |
| Screwed with, as a mind | 23 |
| Squirm free (of) | 16 |
| Spinny | 6 |
| Sting operations, e.g. | 22 |
| See 36-Across | 13 |
| Shake or split alternative | 26 |
| Some "Monopoly" cards | 21 |
| Shark Navigator Lift-Away, for instance | 39 |
| Sporter of purple rays | 22 |
| Slayer of a sort | 16 |
| scheme or tactic | 16 |
| sudden attack | 13 |
| ship | 4 |
| steering organ of a fish | 24 |
| something occurring on a single occasion | 40 |
| small carpet | 12 |
| state whose capital is richmond | 31 |
| suddenly realise | 16 |
| speak out against | 17 |
| sven-göran ..., one-time england manager | 41 |
| ship in genesis | 15 |
| so to speak | 11 |
| Single record's lesser song | 27 |
| Snake that squeezes | 19 |
| Speediness | 10 |
| Sounded right | 13 |
| Suburban yards | 14 |
| Soprano's performance | 21 |
| Sculptor or painter | 19 |
| Spiced tea from India | 21 |
| Sudden electrical burst | 23 |
| Second film in a series | 23 |
| Sailor's "Hello!" | 17 |
| Sniffly sound | 13 |
| Screening grp. | 14 |
| Superhero suffix | 16 |
| Scrape together | 15 |
| Some shuttles | 13 |
| Sudafed alternative | 19 |
| Start of many a workday | 23 |
| Some Pulitzer winners | 21 |
| Sandberg in Cooperstown | 23 |
| Sister's girl | 13 |
| Sprightly | 9 |
| Soaks, as flax | 14 |
| Slaps sharply | 13 |
| Start of some Italian church names | 34 |
| Sexy-looking shoes | 18 |
| Stars, in the Royal Air Force motto | 35 |
| Sort of star | 12 |
| Source of lighting | 18 |
| Singer who's written for Spears and Cyrus | 41 |
| Symbol of impenetrability | 25 |
| Say, for example | 16 |
| Sprint malfunction | 18 |
| Seized car, for short | 21 |
| Special skill | 13 |
| Seiko competitor | 16 |
| Scallion cousin | 15 |
| Showing no emotion | 18 |
| Sire, in the Bible | 18 |
| Secluded place | 14 |