9-Letter Words Starting with S

A Japanese corporate businessman.

SALARY to be paid periodically for non-manual labour

Ballerina's forte

Dancing movement

That's bound to increase 12 across, it seems

English word

Army to the rescue (wordplay)

Deliverance (from sin)

Rescuing army (wordplay)

SCHLIERE a small streak in an igneous rock

Medieval university teacher

Church looms over an Abelard

Educator in the Middle Ages

SCHOOLE a {sandbank=n}

An insoluble protein that permeates the chitin in the cuticle of arthropods and becomes hardened and darkened by a natural tanning process.

One alone is in it

Cousin Les disturbed privacy

What Thoreau lived in at Walden Pond

One of the Selachii. See Illustration in Appendix. Illustration in Appendix.

Assortment of players (wordplay)

Choice that was natural for Darwin

Chews this, by the sound of it

Town meeting officer.

New England town official

Recruiters' job (wordplay)

New England town officers

Town officials in New England

Perhaps punctually the half of two dots

Mark of a long sentence, perhaps

Wink without batting an eye (wordplay)

Main slang (anagram)

Military communications expert

Conspicuous chap, possibly a flasher

Communicators are remarkable people

Railroad employees

Semaphore pros

A sedimentary material consisting of very fine particles intermediate in size between sand and clay.

Idiot! It's easy to point!

Incorrectly spelt? I'm no dope!

Effortless weight (wordplay)

Note sling, for one

Stolen gin (anagram)

Record's hundred and one (wordplay)

SOLVATE to convert into a type of ion

Another name for the jackstraw in the game of jackstraws

That's Tablet Number One, in a skin. Get it out without disturbance

Jackstraw

""A pouch, as for tobacco.""

""One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public service.""

SPOILS spoil

Groom, for example

Ostler, groom etc

'Blast, mane needs grooming!' is what he often thinks

Chaps looking after beasts in detestable menagerie

Country workers in firm facing threat, not half

Country workers seen as steady and reliable chaps (wordplay)

Having died in the womb

Officer ordering vessel to change course

Army officer below captain

Officer below captain

The act of taking or carrying away; removal.

Superlie