| Period of suspended activity | 28 |
| Period of success on Broadway | 29 |
| Period of slow development | 26 |
| Period of service duty | 22 |
| Period of self-indulgence | 25 |
| Period of rationing: Abbr. | 26 |
| Period of rationing (abbr.) | 27 |
| Period of rapid growth | 22 |
| Period of radio silence | 23 |
| Period of powerlessness | 23 |
| Period of play in curling | 25 |
| Period of one's prime | 25 |
| Period of mourning in Judaism | 29 |
| Period of most activity | 23 |
| Period of metalwork advances | 28 |
| Period of marked improvement? | 29 |
| Period of major fighting | 24 |
| Period of low activity | 22 |
| Period of little change | 23 |
| Period of investor confidence | 29 |
| Period of increased births | 26 |
| Period of imminent danger | 25 |
| Period of human benightedness | 29 |
| Period of greatest success | 26 |
| Period of great prosperity | 26 |
| Period of great growth | 22 |
| Period of great glaciation | 26 |
| Period of gradual decline | 25 |
| Period of future bliss | 22 |
| Period of frigid temperatures | 29 |
| Period of focusing on oneself | 29 |
| Period of financial weakness | 28 |
| Period of effectiveness | 23 |
| Period of economic growth | 25 |
| Period of contemplation | 23 |
| Period of bacchanalia? | 22 |
| Period of advancing glaciers | 28 |
| Period named for an element | 27 |
| Period marked by copper use | 27 |
| Period like a millennium | 24 |
| Period just before dark | 23 |
| Period in which we live | 23 |
| Period in the pen, to a con | 27 |
| Period in Indian history | 24 |
| Period in India's history | 29 |
| Period in human history | 23 |
| Period in human development | 27 |
| Period in French history | 24 |
| Period in English literature | 28 |
| Period in civilization | 22 |
| Period in a Jewish year | 23 |
| Period frozen in time? | 22 |
| Period from B.C. to TV | 22 |
| Period free from punishment | 27 |
| Period for preparation | 22 |
| Period fondly remembered now | 28 |
| Period ending January 6 | 23 |
| Period ending about 9000 B.C. | 29 |
| Period circa 1000 B.C. | 22 |
| Period between sessions | 23 |
| Period between blue moons | 25 |
| Period before the storm | 23 |
| Period before the Renaissance | 29 |
| Period before the Quaternary | 28 |
| Period before the Middle Ages | 29 |
| Period before hostilities | 25 |
| Period before Christmas | 23 |
| Period before après-midi | 27 |
| Period after Shrove Tuesday | 27 |
| Period after Mardi Gras | 23 |
| Period after dark, in ads | 25 |
| Period after a sentence | 23 |
| Period 'twixt 12 and 20 | 27 |
| Perimeter of a disk: Abbr. | 26 |
| Perils for polar explorers | 26 |
| Perilous thing to cross over | 28 |
| Perilous seat of government? | 28 |
| Perilous precipitation | 22 |
| Perilous journalistic post | 26 |
| Peril of northern waters | 24 |
| Peril for a veterinarian? | 25 |
| Peridot or shade of green | 25 |
| Pericles's theater | 22 |
| Pericles's marketplace | 26 |
| Pericles' public square | 27 |
| Pericles' 'H' | 25 |
| Perhaps a little too neat | 25 |
| Pergolesi or Haydn opus | 23 |
| Perfumes with a thurible | 24 |
| Perfumes with a joss stick | 26 |
| Perfumes or their bases | 23 |
| Perfumery's attraction | 26 |
| Perfumer's stock in trade | 29 |
| Perfumer's purchase | 23 |
| Perfumer's extract | 22 |
| Perfumer's distillation | 27 |
| Perfumer's compounds | 24 |
| Perfumer's compound | 23 |
| Perfumer's alcohol | 22 |
| Perfumed, as a chancel | 22 |