| Swindle, with "off" | 19 |
| Soda can openers | 16 |
| Swan cousin | 11 |
| Summer camp boats | 17 |
| Secret motive | 13 |
| Sort of cell-phone message | 26 |
| Sun-powered | 11 |
| Showery month | 13 |
| Sneeze sound | 12 |
| Small attic | 11 |
| Successes for a pitcher | 23 |
| Serene | 6 |
| Sandy golf hazard | 17 |
| Snooped [around] | 16 |
| Swelled heads | 13 |
| Sport with clay pigeons | 23 |
| Short skirts | 12 |
| Soup-serving utensil | 20 |
| Spiny houseplant | 16 |
| Sedan or coupe | 14 |
| Sergeant or captain | 19 |
| Stamp-pad fluid | 15 |
| Simplifies | 10 |
| significance | 12 |
| space | 5 |
| significant other? | 18 |
| swimmer's temperature taken by ship's doctor | 44 |
| sanitise driver's competition, taking motorway out during second half of race | 77 |
| somewhat user-friendly one is bound to work | 43 |
| something huge in women's cricket? | 34 |
| six in a million? | 17 |
| started grilling, maybe? | 24 |
| sphinx, mostly | 14 |
| stays on the range too long | 27 |
| split personality? | 18 |
| second edition | 14 |
| small crown | 11 |
| some ups store customers | 24 |
| species of antelopes found round the capital of eritrea | 55 |
| sarah provides an umbrella | 26 |
| stones used to make attacks | 27 |
| settled in temporary accommodation | 34 |
| son chortling, making a killing | 31 |
| spreading bile after a month, making some noise | 47 |
| sweet nonsense | 14 |
| sinks the coal vessels | 22 |
| stop knitting and put to sea | 28 |
| stop usurpers hiding a noted achievement | 40 |
| shocking drama over a defeated fleet | 36 |
| Slight advantages on a hill, in battle | 38 |
| Sound asleep | 12 |
| Steal, and there may be an arrest | 33 |
| She puts lb50 on the nail, possibly | 35 |
| semiaquatic north american rodent valued for its fur | 52 |
| standard monetary unit of the philippines | 41 |
| supreme creator god in norse mythology | 38 |
| surface temperature on mars, say | 32 |
| second tunes played in the evening | 34 |
| started with cake | 17 |
| swimmer feeling around | 22 |
| squabble | 8 |
| shot chaser? | 12 |
| Sound in the stacks | 19 |
| Sights on the Bollywood red carpet | 34 |
| Shape of the Crab Nebula | 24 |
| Shares on X, for short | 22 |
| Sign of sluggishness? | 21 |
| Screening org. | 14 |
| Sticky stuff on a shoe | 22 |
| Scottish fold and Russian blue, e.g. | 36 |
| Scrap | 5 |
| star of the '24 film "this is me ... now: a love story" | 55 |
| start of many california place names | 36 |
| seaweed for sushi-making | 24 |
| spanish actress pataky who's married to chris hemsworth | 55 |
| scottish river in a burns poem | 30 |
| still in bed | 12 |
| setting in disney's "hercules" | 30 |
| Shrek's beloved | 15 |
| skull cap? | 10 |
| swimming holes | 14 |
| scot's cap | 10 |
| some insects | 12 |
| souffle item | 12 |
| southpaw | 8 |
| swapped | 7 |
| Sewer squealer | 14 |
| Suffix suggesting "resemblance," used with "fever" and "blue" | 61 |
| Salty water body | 16 |
| Small "woof" from a dog | 23 |
| Stringed toy: Hyph. | 19 |
| Stock market debut: Abbr. | 25 |
| Silver ... [film industry] | 26 |
| Santa ..., city in California incorporated in 1886 | 50 |
| Solemn promise | 14 |
| Sun-kissed shade | 16 |
| Stacks of firewood | 18 |
| Short form of Abigail | 21 |
| Steak cooked so it's cool to the touch inside | 45 |
| Source of energy for the body | 29 |
| Small cow from Ireland | 22 |
| Special emissary | 16 |
| Setting of the film "Casablanca" | 32 |
| spanish wine | 12 |
| sits again | 10 |
| special weapons and tactics | 27 |
| salma ..., fools rush in star | 29 |
| sign that you'll just have to stand | 35 |
| start of the knight? | 20 |
| south of france | 15 |
| sits in a liquid | 16 |
| sound caused by the reflection of waves | 39 |
| Savings for senior yrs. | 23 |
| Singer from County Donegal | 26 |
| Semicircle, for example | 23 |
| Sentimental fondness | 20 |
| Stop functioning, as a computer | 31 |
| Some bottled waters | 19 |
| Stress about | 12 |
| Saw wielder | 11 |
| Startle | 7 |
| Snake dance performers | 22 |
| Soothe, as a bruise | 19 |
| Spooky crafts | 13 |
| Snack | 5 |
| Scott in an 1857 decision | 25 |
| Spot for spices | 15 |
| Since | 5 |
| Sinking-into-a-hot-bath sound | 29 |
| Some Amex offerings | 19 |
| Sch. metric | 11 |
| Stud's spot | 11 |
| Standard fencing? | 17 |
| Some saloon offerings | 21 |
| Squealer | 8 |
| Suggestion box submissions | 26 |
| Sent a letter with a click | 26 |
| Sniffer | 7 |
| Sample, as food | 15 |
| Shirt that may have a funny message | 35 |
| Seemingly eternal stretch | 25 |
| Saw rosella nap nervously on an electric generator | 50 |
| Should colder embrace be seen as a snub | 39 |
| Supplier of riding gear | 23 |
| Stretch of grass | 16 |
| So nice that you want more | 26 |
| Stops working, as an engine | 27 |
| Sticks for playing eight ball | 29 |
| Spiritual glow around the body | 30 |
| Stop abruptly | 13 |
| Show ennui | 10 |
| Six-sided state | 15 |
| Shakespeare title starter | 25 |
| Sawbuck | 7 |
| Serve tea | 9 |
| Suggest | 7 |
| Sea bird | 8 |
| Stein filler | 12 |
| Spoiled brats | 13 |
| Skill at discerning | 19 |
| Seeped through | 14 |
| Solitary | 8 |
| Stimpy's pal in cartoons | 24 |
| Scary figure with a scythe | 26 |
| Squid's squirt | 14 |
| Sermon giver | 12 |
| Shows amusement | 15 |
| Showed over | 11 |
| State of lethargy | 17 |
| Southern US state | 17 |
| Snobbish | 8 |
| Saw only to become a prisoner | 29 |
| Strains to understand the footnote | 34 |
| Soothing application can save father suffering | 46 |
| Suckers for the bottle | 22 |
| Sandwich cookie | 15 |
| Soccer legend Mia | 17 |
| Spearheaded | 11 |
| Soap .... | 9 |
| Snail's relative | 16 |
| Sewer | 5 |
| Shoot again | 11 |
| Stockbroker's command | 21 |
| Sci-fi's Asimov | 15 |
| Salt solution | 13 |
| Spears | 6 |
| Spectral | 8 |
| Stuck-up stickler | 17 |
| San Francisco sights [2 wds.] | 29 |
| Sparkling headpiece | 19 |
| Sucks dry | 9 |
| Small hound | 11 |
| Seoul's country | 15 |
| Shoemakers' tools | 17 |
| Severinsen et al. | 17 |
| Surrealism's Salvador | 21 |
| Singer Jerry | 12 |
| Saturates | 9 |
| Skeptic's comment [2 wds.] | 26 |
| Subscription continuation | 25 |