| Pulitzer-winning biography by Douglas S. Freeman | 48 |
| Practices one of the environmental three R's | 48 |
| Pavarotti's role in "La Bohème" | 48 |
| Pooh's friend in "Winnie-the-Pooh" | 48 |
| Play from which the word "robot" comes | 48 |
| Plate appearance that doesn't count as an AB | 48 |
| Plant on the back of Arizona's state quarter | 48 |
| Pizzeria owner in "Do the Right Thing" | 48 |
| Portuguese-speaking island off the African coast | 48 |
| Pompous pretensions, and this puzzle's theme | 48 |
| Pile into which letters to Aristotle are sorted? | 48 |
| Part of the Roman Empire in modern-day NE France | 48 |
| Pink Floyd compilation of their first two albums | 48 |
| Prufrock's "Do I dare to eat ___?" | 48 |
| Poet of the platoon can't take the pressure? | 48 |
| Prefix meaning ''quintillionth'' | 48 |
| President who once headed the Harvard Law Review | 48 |
| Play about tenderizing meat with one's toes? | 48 |
| Prince Edward Island community or Irish namesake | 48 |
| Pittsburgh Pirates hero of the 1960 World Series | 48 |
| Pride member only concerned with the end result? | 48 |
| Physician Golgi, for whom Golgi bodies are named | 48 |
| Place in Saskatchewan or a Chevrolet gone wrong? | 48 |
| Play about swine intestines that are semidivine? | 48 |
| Popularity boost due to a certain TV endorsement | 48 |
| Plane featured in "North by Northwest" | 48 |
| Performer with a self-titled HBO special in 2006 | 48 |
| Pants worn by church officials in New Hampshire? | 48 |
| Print version of an online publication, slangily | 48 |
| Paul McCrane's late "ER" character | 48 |
| Pathetically desperate act with an obsolete name | 48 |
| Peach variety named for its developer's wife | 48 |
| Plant used in herbal medicine to treat headaches | 48 |
| Place marker in "The Compleat Angler"? | 48 |
| Person you don't want to play peekaboo with? | 48 |
| Player with the first retired number in baseball | 48 |
| President Bush writes part of his autobiography? | 48 |
| Publisher of a 19th-century periodical for women | 48 |
| Political union created under Queen Anne (abbr.) | 48 |
| Place of turmoil ... or the theme to this puzzle | 48 |
| Prefix meaning "20" (anagram of CASIO) | 48 |
| Producer of "They Live By Night," 1948 | 48 |
| Phrase used in mentioning a deceased star, after | 48 |
| Profession for Laura Bush before the White House | 48 |
| Payroll assessment levied on some baseball teams | 48 |
| Portmanteau word for competitive problem solvers | 48 |
| Protagonist in the highest-grossing film of 1985 | 48 |
| Peer group that's not impressed by anything? | 48 |
| Practice that isn't part of an open marriage | 48 |
| Penny Marshall's "Odd Couple" role | 48 |
| Probable tax deduction (with an up-front charge) | 48 |
| Planet whose moons are named after water deities | 48 |
| Person starting from scratch, self-descriptively | 48 |
| Place for rounds after a round of golf, in slang | 48 |
| Portrayer of Big on "Sex and the City" | 48 |
| Propose placing a mocking person in a strongbox? | 48 |
| Purported source of Revere's historic signal | 48 |
| Play where Desdemona gets sucked into a tornado? | 48 |
| Part of a spiral galaxy farthest from the center | 48 |
| Pratibha -- (India's first female president) | 48 |
| Part of school that includes push-ups and situps | 48 |
| Palahniuk tale of a rowdy slumber party society? | 48 |
| Prefix for "glas" or "glass" | 48 |
| Prairie region in Kansas rich in gypsum and iron | 48 |
| Product whose commercials ran for a spell on TV? | 48 |
| Piano-playing dog on "The Muppet Show" | 48 |
| Periods when Harry Potter books are unavailable? | 48 |
| Personnel manager's inVestment of the 1950s? | 48 |
| Portmanteau name for an O-Cedar cleaning product | 48 |
| Pro team whose mascot is a blue bird named Blitz | 48 |
| Plumber's concern at the Defense Department? | 48 |
| Pool ball's "Watch this!" comment? | 48 |
| Pioneering Edward R. Murrow show of the '50s | 48 |
| Poems whose structure is based on the number six | 48 |
| Play about a woman who dances with short people? | 48 |
| People who may especially appreciate this puzzle | 48 |
| Piece of plastic used for financial transactions | 48 |
| PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Award winner, 1998 | 48 |
| Part of "what little boys are made of" | 48 |
| Profession intent on improving living conditions | 48 |
| Prominent Quebec City daily, with "Le" | 48 |
| Phase in which particle motion is at its slowest | 48 |
| Planes that routinely flew faster than 768 mi/hr | 48 |
| Person trying not to blink in a certain contest? | 48 |
| Paderewski, for one <--> guiding principle | 48 |
| Painter of "The Feast of St. Nicholas" | 48 |
| Part of the pot that doesn't go in the bowl? | 48 |
| Pony Express's Missouri terminus, familiarly | 48 |
| Paper puzzle usually involving a 9x9 grid (2004) | 48 |
| Part of Tennyson's "crooked hands" | 48 |
| Poet who wrote the novel "The Fathers" | 48 |
| Punk rocker with the backup band the Pharmacists | 48 |
| Preparing to drive (with ''up'') | 48 |
| Pinkerton, in "Madama Butterfly," e.g. | 48 |
| Part of Christmas when lords a-leaping are given | 48 |
| Player at Maryland's Byrd Stadium, for short | 48 |
| Pepsi's citrus-flavored soft drink, slangily | 48 |
| Pacino danced it in "Scent of a Woman" | 48 |
| Permanent UN Security Council member, familiarly | 48 |
| Paris art treasure, with ''The'' | 48 |