| --- Philippe (Swiss timepiece) | 30 |
| --- piccata | 11 |
| --- Plaines | 11 |
| --- Plaines, Illinois | 21 |
| --- plume | 9 |
| --- podrida (Spanish stew) | 26 |
| --- Pointe, Mich. | 17 |
| --- polloi | 10 |
| --- potato | 10 |
| --- pro nobis | 13 |
| --- pro nobis (pray for us) | 27 |
| --- prosequi (charges will be dropped) | 38 |
| --- prosequi (court-record entry) | 33 |
| --- prosequi (legal notice) | 27 |
| --- qua non | 11 |
| --- Rabbit | 10 |
| --- rasa | 8 |
| --- Raton | 9 |
| --- Raton, Fla. | 15 |
| --- ray | 7 |
| --- razor (law of parsimony) | 28 |
| --- Reader (eclectic magazine) | 30 |
| --- resemblance (be similar to) | 31 |
| --- Rica | 8 |
| --- riche | 9 |
| --- Rivera, Cal. | 16 |
| --- Rock (Aussie attraction) | 28 |
| --- roll (doing great) | 22 |
| --- Romeo | 9 |
| --- Romeo (automobile) | 22 |
| --- Romeo (sports car) | 22 |
| --- rule (ordinarily) | 21 |
| --- rummy | 9 |
| --- Saint Laurent | 17 |
| --- Salvador | 12 |
| --- Salvador, El Salvador | 25 |
| --- San Lucas | 13 |
| --- sana in corpore ... | 23 |
| --- Sanctorum | 13 |
| --- say (alas) | 14 |
| --- School (early 20th-century art group) | 41 |
| --- Schwarz (toy company) | 25 |
| --- Scotia | 10 |
| --- Scott decision | 18 |
| --- Sea (Amu Darya's outlet) | 32 |
| --- self-defense | 16 |
| --- sequitur | 12 |
| --- serif | 9 |
| --- Shankar, sitar strummer | 27 |
| --- Shop Boys | 13 |
| --- shui | 8 |
| --- Simeon | 10 |
| --- snail's pace | 20 |
| --- snuff (adequate) | 20 |
| --- souci (carefree) | 20 |
| --- Sound Machine | 17 |
| --- sour note | 13 |
| --- speak | 9 |
| --- Speedwagon | 14 |
| --- Speedwagon (rock group) | 27 |
| --- Spumante | 12 |
| --- Spumanti | 12 |
| --- Stanley Gardner | 19 |
| --- State (Maryland) | 20 |
| --- state of affairs | 20 |
| --- stone (unalterable) | 23 |
| --- Straits ("Sultans of Swing" group) | 48 |
| --- Straits (rock group) | 24 |
| --- system | 10 |
| --- Tafari (Haile Selassie, originally) | 39 |
| --- tai | 7 |
| --- Tavern (Homer Simpson hangout) | 34 |
| --- Tay, Scotland | 17 |
| --- terrible (incorrigible child) | 33 |
| --- than (at least) | 19 |
| --- the back | 12 |
| --- the boards (acted) | 22 |
| --- the bullet | 14 |
| --- the chase (stop beating around the bush) | 44 |
| --- the crack of dawn | 21 |
| --- the fat | 11 |
| --- the hills | 13 |
| --- the hole | 12 |
| --- the joint | 13 |
| --- the lily | 12 |
| --- the line | 12 |
| --- the map (geographical locale) | 33 |
| --- the occasion (seized an opportunity) | 40 |
| --- the Red | 11 |
| --- the run (dine hastily) | 26 |
| --- the wiser | 13 |
| --- time (quickly) | 18 |
| --- Tin Tin | 11 |
| --- to be different | 19 |
| --- to know basis | 17 |
| --- to one's ears | 21 |
| --- Tranquility (region on the Moon) | 36 |
| --- trouvé (found item) | 30 |
| --- Tuesday ("Voices Carry" group) | 44 |
| --- Tuesday (day before Ash Wednesday) | 38 |