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saggiest (10 points)
Most baggy
In most need of support - the rest of Spain docked, holding a big cup (wordplay)
S·1+A·1+G·2+G·2+I·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 10 pts
sailboat (10 points)
Catamaran, for one
Item on Plymouth's logo (4,4)
Felucca for example
S·1+A·1+I·1+L·1+B·3+O·1+A·1+T·1 = 10 pts
salariat (8 points)
Drawing class (wordplay)
Wage earners collectively.
The white-collar class
S·1+A·1+L·1+A·1+R·1+I·1+A·1+T·1 = 8 pts
saltiest (8 points)
Most profanity-laced, say
Tops in salinity
Most crude, humorwise
S·1+A·1+L·1+T·1+I·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 8 pts
saltwort (11 points)
European plant
S·1+A·1+L·1+T·1+W·4+O·1+R·1+T·1 = 11 pts
samizdat (20 points)
Soviet contraband literature
Soviet dissidents' self-publishing
Writings done on the sly
S·1+A·1+M·3+I·1+Z·10+D·2+A·1+T·1 = 20 pts
sandiest (9 points)
Like the most popular beaches
Most like rounded grains of rock
Most like a beach
S·1+A·1+N·1+D·2+I·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 9 pts
sandwort (12 points)
Arenaceous plant
Loosely matted plant with mosslike foliage
S·1+A·1+N·1+D·2+W·4+O·1+R·1+T·1 = 12 pts
sapphist (15 points)
A {lesbian=n}
S·1+A·1+P·3+P·3+H·4+I·1+S·1+T·1 = 15 pts
sappiest (12 points)
Most sugar-coated
Most mushy
Most mawkish
S·1+A·1+P·3+P·3+I·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 12 pts
sarcenet (10 points)
Soft silk lining fabric
Soft silk fabric.
It's all very fine if one cares to get ten back
S·1+A·1+R·1+C·3+E·1+N·1+E·1+T·1 = 10 pts
sarkiest (12 points)
Sarky
S·1+A·1+R·1+K·5+I·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 12 pts
sarodist (9 points)
One who plays the sarod
S·1+A·1+R·1+O·1+D·2+I·1+S·1+T·1 = 9 pts
sarsenet (8 points)
Soft silk fabric used for linings
Silk fabric.
That fine stuff may be seen among the rats
S·1+A·1+R·1+S·1+E·1+N·1+E·1+T·1 = 8 pts
sassiest (8 points)
As fresh as can be (wordplay)
Having the most mouth (wordplay)
Impudent to the max
S·1+A·1+S·1+S·1+I·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 8 pts
satanist (8 points)
Does one agree with Nick (wordplay)
Into playing records backward, perhaps
Worshipper in a horror movie, perhaps
S·1+A·1+T·1+A·1+N·1+I·1+S·1+T·1 = 8 pts
satirist (8 points)
Swift, for one
Rabelais, for one
Jonathan Swift, for one
S·1+A·1+T·1+I·1+R·1+I·1+S·1+T·1 = 8 pts
saturant (8 points)
Serving to soak thoroughly
Impregnating to the full.
Soaking agent
S·1+A·1+T·1+U·1+R·1+A·1+N·1+T·1 = 8 pts
sauciest (10 points)
Having the most sass
Most impertinent
Most impudent
S·1+A·1+U·1+C·3+I·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 10 pts
savagest (12 points)
Savage
S·1+A·1+V·4+A·1+G·2+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 12 pts
savviest (14 points)
Most shrewdly informed
Most well-informed
Most perceptive
S·1+A·1+V·4+V·4+I·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 14 pts
scaliest (10 points)
Fishy to the max (wordplay)
Most squamous
Most flaky
S·1+C·3+A·1+L·1+I·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 10 pts
scandent (11 points)
Climbing, as a plant.
S·1+C·3+A·1+N·1+D·2+E·1+N·1+T·1 = 11 pts
scantest (10 points)
Least sufficient
Most meager
Least adequate
S·1+C·3+A·1+N·1+T·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 10 pts
scarcest (12 points)
Hardest to get
In the shortest supply
Hardest to find
S·1+C·3+A·1+R·1+C·3+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 12 pts
scariest (10 points)
Most hair-raising.
Like the best horror movies
Like the best monster movies
S·1+C·3+A·1+R·1+I·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 10 pts
scramjet (19 points)
Hypersonic plane engine
Boeing X-51 engine, e.g
Boeing X-51 engine, for example
S·1+C·3+R·1+A·1+M·3+J·8+E·1+T·1 = 19 pts
seacoast (10 points)
Oat cases (anagram)
Shore it's a beach!
Ocean liner (wordplay)
S·1+E·1+A·1+C·3+O·1+A·1+S·1+T·1 = 10 pts
seacraft (13 points)
Navigational skill
Look for floating structure in the sound - any sort of ship
Ships.
S·1+E·1+A·1+C·3+R·1+A·1+F·4+T·1 = 13 pts
seafront (11 points)
No faster (anagram)
Meet under the main promenade
Atlantic City feature.
S·1+E·1+A·1+F·4+R·1+O·1+N·1+T·1 = 11 pts
seamiest (10 points)
Squalid to the max
Least respectable
Most squalid
S·1+E·1+A·1+M·3+I·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 10 pts
seamount (10 points)
Underwater peak
Peak whose summit can be reached by going downward
S·1+E·1+A·1+M·3+O·1+U·1+N·1+T·1 = 10 pts
seascout (10 points)
Young trainee on the water
Boating troop member
Cadet uses coat for a change
S·1+E·1+A·1+S·1+C·3+O·1+U·1+T·1 = 10 pts
sedatest (9 points)
Most calm
Most unruffled
Most composed
S·1+E·1+D·2+A·1+T·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 9 pts
semimatt (12 points)
""Having a slight luster, also SEMIMAT""
S·1+E·1+M·3+I·1+M·3+A·1+T·1+T·1 = 12 pts
sergeant (9 points)
Graves essayist as NCO (wordplay)
York, for one
York, for one.
S·1+E·1+R·1+G·2+E·1+A·1+N·1+T·1 = 9 pts
serjeant (15 points)
Senior barrister once (for example Buzfuz)
S·1+E·1+R·1+J·8+E·1+A·1+N·1+T·1 = 15 pts
setenant (8 points)
Of two or more stamps joined together
Of two or more different stamps joined together
S·1+E·1+T·1+E·1+N·1+A·1+N·1+T·1 = 8 pts
shadiest (12 points)
His dates (anagram) - most disreputable
Most suspicious
Most disreputable
S·1+H·4+A·1+D·2+I·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 12 pts
shakeout (15 points)
Clean, as a dust mop.
Elimination of the weak link
Business reorg
S·1+H·4+A·1+K·5+E·1+O·1+U·1+T·1 = 15 pts
shakiest (15 points)
Least stable
Most precarious
Least dependable
S·1+H·4+A·1+K·5+I·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 15 pts
shaliest (11 points)
Shaly
S·1+H·4+A·1+L·1+I·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 11 pts
sharpest (13 points)
The best knife, compared to others
Like the most effective knife
Most keen and cutting
S·1+H·4+A·1+R·1+P·3+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 13 pts
shoalest (11 points)
Shoal
S·1+H·4+O·1+A·1+L·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 11 pts
showboat (16 points)
Musical (on 'Old Man River')
End-zone dancer, say
Exhibitionist to launch ship
S·1+H·4+O·1+W·4+B·3+O·1+A·1+T·1 = 16 pts
sibilant (10 points)
His sing-sound (wordplay)
Sisyphus or syzygy, for instance.
Having a hissing sound as in speech
S·1+I·1+B·3+I·1+L·1+A·1+N·1+T·1 = 10 pts
simulant (10 points)
One that {simulates=v}
S·1+I·1+M·3+U·1+L·1+A·1+N·1+T·1 = 10 pts
sitarist (8 points)
Anoushka Shankar, for one
Ravi Shankar, for one
Norah Jones's father, notably
S·1+I·1+T·1+A·1+R·1+I·1+S·1+T·1 = 8 pts
slackest (14 points)
Least taut
S·1+L·1+A·1+C·3+K·5+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 14 pts
slatiest (8 points)
Slaty
S·1+L·1+A·1+T·1+I·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 8 pts
smallest (10 points)
Runt of the litter, perhaps
Of least significance
Like "Little Rhody"
S·1+M·3+A·1+L·1+L·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 10 pts
smartest (10 points)
Having the biggest lip (wordplay)
Best at "Jeopardy!," perhaps
Having the most style
S·1+M·3+A·1+R·1+T·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 10 pts
snakiest (12 points)
Most sinuous
Most serpentine
Most meandering
S·1+N·1+A·1+K·5+I·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 12 pts
snapshot (13 points)
Two pictures for one (wordplay)
Broken image (wordplay)
Photograph of game killed (wordplay)
S·1+N·1+A·1+P·3+S·1+H·4+O·1+T·1 = 13 pts
soapiest (10 points)
Most slippery, perhaps
With the most lather
Most sudsy
S·1+O·1+A·1+P·3+I·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 10 pts
soapwort (13 points)
Its leaves are used for cleansing
S·1+O·1+A·1+P·3+W·4+O·1+R·1+T·1 = 13 pts
sodalist (9 points)
Church club member.
S·1+O·1+D·2+A·1+L·1+I·1+S·1+T·1 = 9 pts
somewhat (16 points)
How teams play? Rather!
Rather a handful, eh (wordplay)
To a degree
S·1+O·1+M·3+E·1+W·4+H·4+A·1+T·1 = 16 pts
sonorant (8 points)
The sound of a "w," say, in phonetics
Rather resonant consonant
Like L or R, in phonetics
S·1+O·1+N·1+O·1+R·1+A·1+N·1+T·1 = 8 pts
spaciest (12 points)
Most airheaded
Most ditzy
S·1+P·3+A·1+C·3+I·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 12 pts
sparsest (10 points)
Shortest boxes set out
Least numerous, as a crowd
Most scattered to trespass criminally
S·1+P·3+A·1+R·1+S·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 10 pts
squarest (17 points)
Behaving in the most unfashionable way
Most conservative
Most conservative opening to speech, as with others
S·1+Q·10+U·1+A·1+R·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 17 pts
stablest (10 points)
Least capricious
S·1+T·1+A·1+B·3+L·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 10 pts
staggart (10 points)
""A full-grown male deer, also STAGGARD""
S·1+T·1+A·1+G·2+G·2+A·1+R·1+T·1 = 10 pts
stagiest (9 points)
Tops in tacky theatrics
Most artificial
Most histrionic
S·1+T·1+A·1+G·2+I·1+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 9 pts
stagnant (9 points)
Covered with pond scum, perhaps
Making no progress
(Of water) motionless
S·1+T·1+A·1+G·2+N·1+A·1+N·1+T·1 = 9 pts
staidest (9 points)
Least wild and frivolous
Most composed
Most reserved
S·1+T·1+A·1+I·1+D·2+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 9 pts
stakeout (12 points)
Mark with pegs.
Post elsewhere for police job
Surveillance by the police
S·1+T·1+A·1+K·5+E·1+O·1+U·1+T·1 = 12 pts
stalwart (11 points)
Start law firm (wordplay)
Person who is loyal to their allegiance
The last, strong growth
S·1+T·1+A·1+L·1+W·4+A·1+R·1+T·1 = 11 pts
standout (9 points)
Top-notch performer
Be prominent and superior
Be prominent in project
S·1+T·1+A·1+N·1+D·2+O·1+U·1+T·1 = 9 pts
standpat (11 points)
Not get hit (wordplay)
Put singer Boone on his feet (wordplay)
Tolerate Boone (wordplay)
S·1+T·1+A·1+N·1+D·2+P·3+A·1+T·1 = 11 pts
stardust (9 points)
Magic residue, maybe
Hoagy Carmichael song
Fine meteoric matter
S·1+T·1+A·1+R·1+D·2+U·1+S·1+T·1 = 9 pts
starkest (12 points)
Most barren and grim.
Most dramatic
Most desolate
S·1+T·1+A·1+R·1+K·5+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 12 pts
starwort (11 points)
How the noise comes up in the blooming beginning
S·1+T·1+A·1+R·1+W·4+O·1+R·1+T·1 = 11 pts
stedfast (12 points)
Unswerving variable
Unswerving Var.
S·1+T·1+E·1+D·2+F·4+A·1+S·1+T·1 = 12 pts
straight (12 points)
Frank Blunt (wordplay)
Honest hand (wordplay)
Honest about a hand at poker (wordplay)
S·1+T·1+R·1+A·1+I·1+G·2+H·4+T·1 = 12 pts
strawhat (14 points)
Headgear Tsar sported, eh (wordplay)
Boater, for one
E.g. boater
S·1+T·1+R·1+A·1+W·4+H·4+A·1+T·1 = 14 pts
subabbot (14 points)
Clergy member
Monastery figure
S·1+U·1+B·3+A·1+B·3+B·3+O·1+T·1 = 14 pts
subadult (11 points)
An individual approaching adulthood
S·1+U·1+B·3+A·1+D·2+U·1+L·1+T·1 = 11 pts
subagent (11 points)
Legal broker's underwater spy (wordplay)
Representative of a sort.
Sales underling
S·1+U·1+B·3+A·1+G·2+E·1+N·1+T·1 = 11 pts
subshaft (16 points)
A shaft that is beneath another shaft
S·1+U·1+B·3+S·1+H·4+A·1+F·4+T·1 = 16 pts
subtract (12 points)
Take away (a number)
Take away (number)
That'll nonpluss you!
S·1+U·1+B·3+T·1+R·1+A·1+C·3+T·1 = 12 pts
supplant (12 points)
Oust petitioner when I leave
Take the place of.
Supersede and replace
S·1+U·1+P·3+P·3+L·1+A·1+N·1+T·1 = 12 pts
surfboat (13 points)
A strong rowboat
S·1+U·1+R·1+F·4+B·3+O·1+A·1+T·1 = 13 pts
swankest (15 points)
Most showily stylish
Most elegant
Most stylish
S·1+W·4+A·1+N·1+K·5+E·1+S·1+T·1 = 15 pts

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