| --- snail's pace | 20 |
| --- Simeon | 10 |
| --- shui | 8 |
| --- Shop Boys | 13 |
| --- Shankar, sitar strummer | 27 |
| --- serif | 9 |
| --- sequitur | 12 |
| --- self-defense | 16 |
| --- Sea (Amu Darya's outlet) | 32 |
| --- Scott decision | 18 |
| --- Scotia | 10 |
| --- Schwarz (toy company) | 25 |
| --- School (early 20th-century art group) | 41 |
| --- say (alas) | 14 |
| --- Sanctorum | 13 |
| --- sana in corpore ... | 23 |
| --- San Lucas | 13 |
| --- Salvador, El Salvador | 25 |
| --- Salvador | 12 |
| --- Saint Laurent | 17 |
| --- rummy | 9 |
| --- rule (ordinarily) | 21 |
| --- Romeo (sports car) | 22 |
| --- Romeo (automobile) | 22 |
| --- Romeo | 9 |
| --- roll (doing great) | 22 |
| --- Rock (Aussie attraction) | 28 |
| --- Rivera, Cal. | 16 |
| --- riche | 9 |
| --- Rica | 8 |
| --- resemblance (be similar to) | 31 |
| --- Reader (eclectic magazine) | 30 |
| --- razor (law of parsimony) | 28 |
| --- ray | 7 |
| --- Raton, Fla. | 15 |
| --- Raton | 9 |
| --- rasa | 8 |
| --- Rabbit | 10 |
| --- qua non | 11 |
| --- prosequi (legal notice) | 27 |
| --- prosequi (court-record entry) | 33 |
| --- prosequi (charges will be dropped) | 38 |
| --- pro nobis (pray for us) | 27 |
| --- pro nobis | 13 |
| --- potato | 10 |
| --- polloi | 10 |
| --- Pointe, Mich. | 17 |
| --- podrida (Spanish stew) | 26 |
| --- plume | 9 |
| --- Plaines, Illinois | 21 |
| --- Plaines | 11 |
| --- piccata | 11 |
| --- Philippe (Swiss timepiece) | 30 |
| --- Petrovich Pavlov | 20 |
| --- personae | 12 |
| --- Penh | 8 |
| --- Paulo, Brazil | 17 |
| --- Paulo (Brazilian city) | 26 |
| --- Paulo | 9 |
| --- Parker (busybody) | 21 |
| --- Park, Queens | 16 |
| --- Park, NJ | 12 |
| --- Park, N.Y. | 14 |
| --- Park, Edison's lab site | 31 |
| --- Park, Colorado | 18 |
| --- Park, CO | 12 |
| --- Park, California | 20 |
| --- pareil | 10 |
| --- Pan Alley | 13 |
| --- Palos Verdes, California | 28 |
| --- Palmas, NM | 14 |
| --- Palmas | 10 |
| --- Paese cheese | 16 |
| --- Paese (cheese) | 18 |
| --- Paese | 9 |
| --- Oyster Cult | 15 |
| --- over (read carefully) | 25 |
| --- out a living (scraped by) | 29 |
| --- out a living (barely manage) | 32 |
| --- out a living | 16 |
| --- out (withdrew) | 18 |
| --- out (make do) | 17 |
| --- out (just managed) | 22 |
| --- out (just made it) | 22 |
| --- out (gives substance to) | 28 |
| --- out (gets by) | 17 |
| --- out (begins a drag race) | 28 |
| --- out (barely makes) | 22 |
| --- out (barely make) | 21 |
| --- out (barely gets) | 21 |
| --- out (barely gets by) | 24 |
| --- ordinaire | 13 |
| --- Orange, NJ | 14 |
| --- only money | 14 |
| --- one's time (wait) | 25 |
| --- one's time (wait for a favorable opportunity) | 53 |
| --- one's loins | 19 |
| --- on thick | 12 |
| --- on favorite (almost a sure thing) | 37 |
| --- omission | 12 |