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- Paramour
- Parasite
- Parenthetical remark
- Parisian pancake
- Parisian river
- Parisian subway
- Parisian thanks
- ___ Park (gateway to Rocky Mountain National Park)
- ___ Park, Calif.
- Parker at a ritzy hotel
- Parking garage listing
- Parking spots?
- Parliamentary seats?
- Part of a bedtime routine
- Part of a black suit
- Part of a blues collection?
- Part of a bridal outfit
- Part of a cattle herd
- Part of a drum kit
- Part of a heart or faucet
- Part of a homecoming parade
- Part of a pantheon
- Part of a piano or loom
- Part of a Santa Claus costume
- Part of a skyscraper or Snapchat feed
- Part of a trunk
- Part of an Instagram post
- Part of an office presentation
- Part of many a mailing address, in brief
- Part of Micronesia
- Part of NOW
- Part of OTOH
- Part of PIN: Abbr.
- Part of pizza that roughly 20% of people don't eat, according to YouGov polling
- Part of the Statue of Liberty that was once open to the public, but closed in 1916
- Part of the Statue of Liberty that's accessed by a double-helix staircase
- Part of WASP
- Participates in a video call, as added to the dictionary in 2020
- Partner of Clark in exploration
- Partner of nips
- Partner of services, in economics
- Partner of wined
- Partners for ladies, informally
- Parts of a copse
- Parts of a dental exam
- Parts of a hand
- Parts of many combo meals
- Parts of some wedding rituals
- Party poppers
- Party takeaway
- Pascal of "The Mandalorian"
- Pass, as time doing something
- Passage ceremonies
- Passed, as bad checks
- Passes (out)
- Passing notices, informally
- Passover month
- Passé
- Past or present
- ___ pasta (rhyming fusion dish)
- Pasta shape similar to ziti
- Pasta that can be made "alla vodka"
- Pastries that can be very sweet, ironically
- Pat down
- Patatas bravas and croquetas, e.g.
- Patches up, in a way
- Patchwork blanket
- Path around the sun
- Path for a bride
- Pathway for an airplane beverage cart
- Patient privacy law, in brief
- Patooties
- Patronizes a four-star restaurant, say
- Patterned fabric
- Paul who's been inducted twice into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
- Paula of "American Idol"
- Paula who judged on "American Idol"
- Pauses while playing
- Pay for at a restaurant, say
- Pay tribute to
- Peabody-winning journalist Steve
- Peace Nobelist Kofi
- "Peace out!"
- Peaceful place
- Peak of religion?
- Peak overlooking the Grindelwald Valley
- "Peanuts" or "Pickles"
- "Peanuts," e.g.
- ___ pear (applelike fruit)
- Pear variety
- Peddles
- Pee Wee of baseball
- ___ peek
- Peer
- Peeved
- Pen
- Penalties for parking violations
- Pencil in a cosmetics bag
- Penny pincher
- Penny-pinching
- People not to argue with, they say
- People of SW Britain
- People of the Mexican altiplano
- People with no word for "please" in their native language
- Pepsi and Coke
- Per ___ (accounting term)
- Perfect
- Perfect place
- Perfectly behaved child
- Perform better than
- Perform lines that aren't in the script
- Performance at Lincoln Center
- Performance at Milan's La Scala or Naples's Teatro di San Carlo
- Performed in a play
- Perfume with an accent on its fourth letter
- Perfumery unit
- Period of letting loose
- Period preceding a big event
- Peripheral
- Permanent, perhaps
- Perpetual homebody?
- Person from the neighborhood
- Person giving blood
- Person I used to be, before some personal growth
- Person you secretly like
- Persona non grata
- Personal circumstances, so to speak
- Personal fallouts
- Personal histories
- Personal opinions, in modern parlance
- Personal records
- Personality test co-inventor Isabel Briggs ___
- Pertaining to development in the womb
- Pertaining to hair
- Perturbed
- Peruvian mountains
- Peruvian pack animal
- Pester
- Pests that bug pups
- Pet adoption org.
- Peter ___, physicist with a field and a particle named for him
- Petri dish gels
- "Pharsalia" and the "Aeneid"
- Pharyngeal woe
- Philadelphia M.L.S. team
- Philly Ivy
- Philosopher known for his "razor"
- Philosopher who championed simple explanations
- Philosopher William of ___
- Philosophical idea of "What goes around comes back around"
- Philosophy of many founding fathers
- Phoenix neighbor
- Phonies
- Phony one
- "Phooey!"
- Photo option
- Photographer Adams
- Phrase on a Spanish candy heart
- Physical therapy and such, informally
- Physicist Bohr
- Physicist Ohm
- Physicist Wolfgang who proposed the "exclusion principle"
- Pia ___ (brain covering)
- Pianist Rubinstein
- Piano exercise
- Piano practice piece
- Piano pupil's practice piece
- Piano technician
- Pick
- Pick from the menu
- Pickleball venue
- Pico de ___
- Pico de ___ (salsa variety)
- Picture it!
- Picture puzzle where 👁️ + ❤️ + 🐑 means "I love you"
- Pictures on a screen
- Pie nut
- Pie-in-the-face sound
- Piece of armadillo armor
- Piece of bacon
- "Piece of cake!"
- "Piece of cake" or "spill the beans"
- Piece of equipment in a Winter Olympics biathlon
- Piece of equipment in curling
- Piece of equipment in curling or Quidditch
- Pieces in the game Othello
- Pieces of clothing for which two M.L.B. teams are named
- Pieces of Indian music
- Pied-à-___
- Pierre : French :: ___ : Russian
- Pig's nose
- Pile of pancakes
- Piles upon piles
- Pilfered
- Pinched
- Pines
- Pink ___ (rock band)
- Pinkish wines
- Pinnacles
- Pint-size
- Pioneer in arcade games
- Pioneer in developing alternating current
- "Pipe down!"
- Pirate's "Stop!"
- Pistachio eater's discard
- Pitch one might try to perfect
- Pitch raisers for guitarists
- Pitch-altering clamps on guitars
- Pitched
- Pithy criticisms
- Pittsburgh-based industrial giant
- Pixelated, informally
- Pizzeria fixtures
- Place for a bracelet
- Place for a castle
- Place for a sailor's anchor, informally
- Place for cafe art
- Place for online discussion
- Place for unread emails
- Place to hone one's golf swing
- Place to say "I do"
- Places
- Places for hot dates?
- Places students sit
- Places to stretch out
- Places visited on a Clue board
- Plague that precedes lice in Exodus
- Plain
- Plains animal in a herd
- Plane divider
- Plane on a diamond
- Planet with an average surface temperature of around 860°F
- Planet's path
- ___ planner (occupation)
- Planning to, informally
- Plant food?
- Plant used to make a Mexican beverage called "pulque"
- Plant used to make mezcal
- Plants that have been around on Earth for 375+ million years
- Plants with tendrils
- Plastic wrap brand
- Platoon V.I.P.
- Play casually, say
- Play for ___
- Play loudly, as from a speaker
- Play the host
- Play using all seven tiles in Scrabble
- Playbill groups
- Played (with)
- Played a part
- Playful aquatic animal
- Playful aquatic mammal
- Playful prank
- Playing card better known as a jack
- Playwright Chekhov
- Pleasant smell
- Pleasing to the palate
- Pleasingly round
- Plentiful
- Plenty of
- Plot divisions
- Plot of land
- Plots
- Plug amount
- Plumbing conduits
- Plunders
- "… plus ___"
- Podcast's medium
- Podcaster Joe
- Poe's middle name
- Poet Dickinson
- Poet who wrote "Only through time time is conquered"
- Poet with a 1982 posthumous Pulitzer
- Poet's Muse
- ___ point (center)
- Point of view
- "Point taken"
- Pointed, as a weapon
- Pointer for a public speaker
- Pointers for a fencer?
- Pointers for some fighters?
- "Poison" shrub
- Poker buy-ins
- Poker game entry fee
- Poker hand known as a "Wayne Gretzky"
- Poker payments
- Poker player's giveaways
- Poker player's option
- ___ pole (symbolic carving)
- Pole tossed in a Scottish game
- Police weapon
- Polishes, as text
- Political ally who receives corrupt benefits
- Political commentator Piker
- Political leader unwelcome at home
- Political party that competed with Democrats during the 1830s-’50s
- Political staffers
- Politician's stumble
- Polynesian title heroine of film
- Pompous people
- Pond scum
- Pool set?
- Pop group
- Pop star who once stylized her name with a dollar sign
- Pop up
- Pop, rock or jazz
- Pop-pop
- Popcorn size that might come in a bucket
- Popeye's rival
- Popular font
- Popular Japanese beer
- Popular Japanese brew
- Popular pub pastime
- Popular singer of the Hawaiian folk song "Pearly Shells"
- Popular tablets
- Popular toys, in a plural form officially discouraged by their maker
- ___ pork (dish in a Chinese restaurant)
- Port-au-Prince's country
- Portmanteau for a screened-in feline lounge
- Portmanteau for a skin problem under a T-shirt or bra strap
- Pose for which you must plant your body on the mat?
- Poseidon's domain
- Posh clothing material
- Position in basketball
- Positioned to win
- Post-bath wrap
- Postlarval insects
- Postmodern architect Frank
- Posts on a battleship, say
- Pot user?
- Potato pancake for Hanukkah
- Potato-based Hanukkah serving
- Potpourri piece
- Pound the pavement?
- Pounded sticky rice sometimes filled with ice cream
- Powder in a pantry
- Power measures
- Power-saving computer mode
- Powerball or Mega Millions
- Powerful cards in euchre
- Powerful volleyball hit
- Powerhouse in women's college basketball, with a record 12 national championships
- Practice Japanese
- Practice piece
- Praise enthusiastically
- Praise to the skies
- Praises
- Prancing horse and golden bull, in the auto industry
- Prayer presenter
- Pre-Inca civilization known for its underground aqueducts and geoglyphs
- Pre-meal prayer
- Pre-transformation self
- Preceding time
- Precipitous?
- Predator with dermal denticles
- Predicated
- Preferred, say
- Prefix meaning "heavens," as the name of a planet suggests
- Prefix meaning "one-thousandth"
- Prefix meaning "sun"
- Prefix similar to mega-
- Prefix suggesting low cost
- Prefix with -centric
- Prefix with -path or -political
- Prefix with -trope
- Prefix with loop for theoretical high-speed transport
- Prefix with marathon
- Prefix with media
- Prefix with Roman
- Prefix with vitamin or tool
- Prepare quickly, as eggs for breakfast
- Prepare to be knighted
- Prepare to drive
- Prepare to drive, in golf
- Prepare to pop the question
- Prepare to propose
- Prepare to ship, say
- Prepare to use, as a pen
- Prepare, as a Thanksgiving turkey
- Prepare, in a way, as zucchini
- Prepares a home for a new baby
- Prepares for an interview, say
- Prepares for baking, as flour
- Prepares for offspring
- Preppy clothing brand
- Preps for surgery, perhaps
- Prerelease prototypes
- Preschooler's wheels
- Prescription products
- Presentations during a product unveiling
- Preserved, in a way
- President after Washington
- President in 1800
- President who said "The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something"
- President who wrote "Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it"
- President whose wife was nicknamed "Lemonade Lucy" for refusing to serve alcohol in the White House
- Pressing desires
- Prestigious prize
- Prestigious university in Atlanta
- Pretend
- Pretense
- Pretty large jazz combo
- Prevent, as a crisis
- Prey for a ladybug
- Prey for polar bears
- Price-ending digits, often
- Priced to be, as bail
- Pricey variety of beef that translates to "Japanese cow"
- Prickly patch
- Prima ___
- Primate native to Madagascar
- Prime use for a crowbar
- Primer mes del año
- Primitive
- Prince Harry, per his memoir's title
- Printer powder
- Printing mark whose name is from the Latin for "is lacking"
- Printing technique that uses wax
- Printmaking process, for short
- "Priscilla" director Coppola
- Private teacher
- Prized people
- Prized stone
- Procrastinator's mantra
- Product of a grapevine?
- Product of Maine or Idaho, informally
- Product sold on "The Office"
- Professional negotiator
- Professor Dumbledore
- Progeny
- Program for expedited travel between the U.S. and Canada
- Prohibited in Islam
- Projects, as a shadow
- Prominent features on goblin sharks
- Promotes
- Prone to complaining
- Prone to daydreaming
- Pronoun with two homophones
- Proof you weren't part of the crime, say
- Prop in a comedy club
- Protected space for women in the Ottoman Empire
- Protection against flooding
- Protection, as from an organization
- Protective layers over skin wounds
- Protein-building acid, informally
- Prove appropriate for
- Proverbial waste maker
- Provider of virtual trips to Mars since 2003
- Providers of chops and chips
- Provincetown catch
- Provokes, with "up"
- Ptolemy III?
- Pub quaff
- Public relations concern
- Public transit system
- Publication with the headline "C.I.A. Realizes It's Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years," with "The"
- Pucker producer, perhaps
- Puffs of perfume
- Puffy, pink protagonist of Nintendo fame
- Pugilist Ali
- Pull a fast ___ (trick)
- Pull some strings?
- Pulling the ___ (outdated idiom for voting)
- Pulsed quickly, as the heart
- "Pumpkin eater" in a nursery rhyme
- Pumpkin, e.g.
- Pun-filled, say
- Punctuation found in this clue, for example
- Pungent
- Punted
- Puppy
- Purity analysis
- Purple shade
- Purplish perennial
- Pursue
- Push through
- Pussyfoot
- Put away some groceries?
- Put forth
- Put in a row
- Put in one's two cents
- Put in persistent hard work
- Put in stitches
- Put into law
- Put off
- Put on a scale
- Put on sale, perhaps
- Put on TV
- "Put up your ___!"
- Put up, as a building
- Put up, as a statue
- Puts in order from best to worst, maybe
- Puts in the mail
- Puts on display, with "out"
- Puts on the line
- Puts through a harsh initiation
- Puts through the paces
- Puzzle
- Puzzle out
- Puzzles
- Pyramid inhabitant
- Q: Why did the farmer ___ under his tractor?
- Quarrel (with)
- Quarrels
- Quarterback Rodgers
- Queen's collaborator on the 1981 hit "Under Pressure"
- Question exclaimed after misfortune
- Question from someone seeking reassurance
- Quests for
- "Quick!"
- Quickly change the topic
- Quickly fall asleep after a long day
- "Quiet!"
- "Quiet, you!"
- Quiets on Zoom
- Quinceañeras, e.g.
- Quit
- Quotes
- Quotidian
- "Qué ___!" (Spanish "Awesome!")
- R&B group Bell Biv ___
- Rack up
- Radar abnormalities
- Radar screen dots
- Radiate
- ___ Rae Jepsen ("Call Me Maybe" singer)
- Ragú competitor
- Railroad station
- Rain clouds
- Rain delay coverings
- Rains hard?
- Raises the temperature of
- Ralph who ran for president four times
- Ramadan, e.g.
- Ranks
- Ransacks
- Rap or tap
- Rapper ___ Elliott
- Rapper ___ Rhymes
- Rapper and actor Smith
- Rapper who co-starred in 1994's "Above the Rim"
- Rapper with the 2022 hit "Big Energy"
- Rapscallion
- "Rare" order at a restaurant
- Rarin' to go
- Raring to go, say
- Rascal
- Rash
- "Ratatouille" topper
- Rationalist's theology
- Rattling kind of drum
- Rawboned
- ___ ray
- Re-fresh?
- Reach an end
- Reach out to
- Reactions akin to "OMG!"
- Reacts with violent anger
- "Read Me" readers
- Ready to dive in, say
- Ready to go
- Real swell
- Really fancy
- Really hurts
- Really like
- Really not look forward to
- Really overdo for the camera
- Really plague
- Really please
- Really talked (up)
- "Really, we're still doing this?!"
- Rear end, informally
- Rear of a boat
- Reason for turbulence
- Reason to suddenly bolt awake
- Reasons for wrinkled noses
- "___ Recall" (1990 sci-fi film)
- Receded, as the tide
- "Received and understood," in radio lingo
- Recent recruit
- Recipient of Emmys in different categories for the same role
- Recital pieces
- Recognized
- Recoiled
- Record number?
- Record of the year?
- Recovers
- Recumbent
- Red "Inside Out" character
- Red body part for Santa
- Red hair or hazel eyes, e.g.
- Red root vegetables
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