| Play based on a Maugham tale | 28 |
| Play based on Maugham tale | 26 |
| Play bass like a funk musician | 30 |
| Play before the headliner | 25 |
| Play before the play | 20 |
| Play beginner | 13 |
| Play beginning | 14 |
| Play better defense than? | 25 |
| Play bit | 8 |
| Play boisterously | 17 |
| Play book? | 10 |
| Play both sides | 15 |
| Play both sides, in a way | 25 |
| Play boy? | 9 |
| Play break | 10 |
| Play breaks | 11 |
| Play broadly | 12 |
| Play bumper cars | 16 |
| Play bumper-cars | 16 |
| Play button's alternate function, often | 43 |
| Play by a different __ rules | 28 |
| Play by a different ___ rules | 29 |
| Play by Alfred Noyes | 20 |
| Play by Anton Chekhov | 21 |
| Play by e. e. cummings | 22 |
| Play by e.e. cummings | 21 |
| Play by Emlyn Williams: 1938 | 28 |
| Play by Euripides | 17 |
| Play by George Bernard Shaw | 27 |
| Play by Ibsen | 13 |
| Play by Jean-Paul Sartre | 24 |
| Play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | 41 |
| Play by Karel Capek | 19 |
| Play by Mae West: 1928 | 22 |
| Play by Mark Twain and Bret Harte | 33 |
| Play by Matt Crowley (with "The") | 43 |
| Play by Maxwell Anderson | 24 |
| Play by Neil Simon | 18 |
| Play by Neil Simon, with "The" | 40 |
| Play by Noyes: 1915 | 19 |
| Play by O'Neill | 19 |
| Play by oneself | 15 |
| Play by Osborne | 15 |
| Play by Rattigan | 16 |
| Play by Sartre | 14 |
| Play by Sophocles | 17 |
| Play by the rules | 17 |
| Play by Topor | 13 |
| Play by Van Druten: 1951 | 24 |
| Play by William Gibson | 22 |
| Play by ___ | 11 |
| Play by ___ (without sheet music) | 33 |
| Play byplay | 11 |
| Play called by Montana | 22 |
| Play caller | 11 |
| Play callers | 12 |
| Play callers, for short | 23 |
| Play cat and mouse (with) | 25 |
| Play catch, with "around" | 35 |
| Play catch-up | 13 |
| Play catcher, say | 17 |
| Play center, often | 18 |
| Play center, sometimes | 22 |
| Play centered around a completely white canvas | 46 |
| Play characters | 15 |
| Play charades | 13 |
| Play charades, e.g. | 19 |
| Play chauffeur | 14 |
| Play chords | 11 |
| Play chords, possibly | 21 |
| Play city planner | 17 |
| Play clay | 9 |
| Play clock units | 16 |
| Play co-authored by Mark Twain | 30 |
| Play co-written by Mark Twain and Bret Harte | 44 |
| Play company | 12 |
| Play conclusion, often | 22 |
| Play conclusion? | 16 |
| Play construction | 17 |
| Play constructions | 18 |
| Play continuation | 17 |
| Play critic? | 12 |
| Play date | 9 |
| Play date overseer? | 19 |
| Play date? | 10 |
| Play dates | 10 |
| Play dates? | 11 |
| Play dead, e.g. | 15 |
| Play delayers | 13 |
| Play device | 11 |
| Play direction | 14 |
| Play director? | 14 |
| Play directors | 14 |
| Play directors, briefly | 23 |
| Play dirty | 10 |
| Play dirty against an N.H.L. newcomer? | 38 |
| Play division | 13 |
| Play divisions | 14 |
| Play double Dutch, say | 22 |
| Play down | 9 |