| Plays a platter | 15 |
| Plays a powerful card | 21 |
| Plays a practical joke | 22 |
| Plays a prank on, informally | 28 |
| Plays a role | 12 |
| Plays a rope game | 17 |
| Plays a round | 13 |
| Plays a siren | 13 |
| Plays a sophomoric prank on, informally | 39 |
| Plays a tattoo | 14 |
| Plays a trick on | 16 |
| Plays a trump card | 18 |
| Plays a trump card, in bridge | 29 |
| Plays a wrong note | 18 |
| Plays a wrong note, e.g. | 24 |
| Plays accompanied by hayashi | 28 |
| Plays after some snaps, in brief | 32 |
| Plays an ace? | 13 |
| Plays an oversize piano | 23 |
| Plays another game of Jenga, say | 32 |
| Plays April Fools on, in Krakow? | 32 |
| Plays April Fools, in Krakow? | 29 |
| Plays around? | 13 |
| Plays at a pond, in a way | 25 |
| Plays at full volume | 20 |
| Plays at high volume | 20 |
| Plays at love | 13 |
| Plays at maximum volume | 23 |
| Plays at Pebble Beach | 21 |
| Plays at quoits | 15 |
| Plays baseball | 14 |
| Plays before the main act | 25 |
| Plays both sides | 16 |
| Plays by Aristophanes, e.g. | 27 |
| Plays by oneself | 16 |
| Plays cat and mouse | 19 |
| Plays catch | 11 |
| Plays charades | 14 |
| Plays charades? | 15 |
| Plays chords, in a way | 22 |
| Plays chords, perhaps | 21 |
| Plays chuck-a-luck | 18 |
| Plays copycat | 13 |
| Plays dirty, literally | 22 |
| Plays Double Dutch | 18 |
| Plays down | 10 |
| Plays down, as an issue | 23 |
| Plays eighteen | 14 |
| Plays fast and loose with, as data | 34 |
| Plays favorites, perhaps | 24 |
| Plays first | 11 |
| Plays first in bridge | 22 |
| Plays first, in some card games | 31 |
| Plays football | 14 |
| Plays footsie | 13 |
| Plays for a fool | 16 |
| Plays for a pawn | 16 |
| Plays for a sap | 15 |
| Plays for a sucker | 18 |
| Plays for money | 15 |
| Plays for more time | 19 |
| Plays for time | 14 |
| Plays friskily | 14 |
| Plays good golf | 15 |
| Plays guitar chords, in a way | 29 |
| Plays guitar really well | 24 |
| Plays henchman | 14 |
| Plays hooky | 11 |
| Plays hot jazz | 14 |
| Plays ice hockey | 16 |
| Plays idly | 10 |
| Plays impromptu | 15 |
| Plays in a zoo? | 15 |
| Plays in alleys, maybe | 22 |
| Plays in an alley | 17 |
| Plays in chess | 14 |
| Plays in shallow water | 22 |
| Plays in the Masters | 20 |
| Plays in the mud | 16 |
| Plays in the water | 18 |
| Plays intensely, in jazz slang | 30 |
| Plays it safe in broadcasting | 29 |
| Plays it to the hilt | 20 |
| Plays jazz | 10 |
| Plays like Alexander's band | 31 |
| Plays loudly | 12 |
| Plays masseuse | 14 |
| Plays matchmaker | 16 |
| Plays matchmaker for | 20 |
| Plays miniature golf | 20 |
| Plays night after night | 23 |
| Plays Nimrod | 12 |
| Plays ninepins | 14 |
| Plays on one's emotions | 27 |
| Plays on stage | 14 |
| Plays on words | 14 |
| Plays one's last card | 25 |
| Plays onstage ahead of | 22 |
| Plays out | 9 |
| Plays out history | 17 |