| Plate umpire's tool | 23 |
| Plate used at some dinners? | 27 |
| Plate used in stopping | 22 |
| Plate useful at mealtime | 24 |
| Plateau of ___, in Asia | 23 |
| Plateau's relative | 22 |
| Platform for $1,000 bills? | 26 |
| Platform for a guest of honor | 29 |
| Platform for a lectern | 22 |
| Platform for a lookout | 22 |
| Platform for a zodiac sign? | 27 |
| Platform for choir members | 26 |
| Platform for Demosthenes | 24 |
| Platform for many apps | 22 |
| Platform for many politicians | 29 |
| Platform for outdoor concerts | 29 |
| Platform for Pate or Murphy | 27 |
| Platform for public speaking | 28 |
| Platform introduced in 1981 | 27 |
| Platform locales: Abbr. | 23 |
| Platform part, perhaps | 22 |
| Platform that faces the pews | 28 |
| Platform under a platform | 25 |
| Platform unveiled in 1981 | 25 |
| Platform used to play Metroid | 29 |
| Platform's platform | 23 |
| Platforms for speakers | 22 |
| Platforms in many parks | 23 |
| Platforms resembling steps | 26 |
| Platinum and potassium | 22 |
| Platinum blonde cheerleaders? | 29 |
| Platinum item of jewelry? | 25 |
| Platinum record, for sure | 25 |
| Platinum-blonde star of yore | 28 |
| Platinum-group element | 22 |
| Platinum-yielding region | 24 |
| Platitude after a parable | 25 |
| Plato and Aristotle, e.g. | 25 |
| Plato translator Benjamin | 25 |
| Plato's "H" | 25 |
| Plato's "ideas" | 29 |
| Plato's "T" | 25 |
| Plato's covered walk | 24 |
| Plato's final letter | 24 |
| Plato's legendary island | 28 |
| Plato's lost island | 23 |
| Plato's marketplace | 23 |
| Plato's precursor: Abbr. | 28 |
| Plato's seventh letter | 26 |
| Platoon setting briefly | 27 |
| Platoon setting: abbr. | 25 |
| Platoon cmdr.'s rank | 24 |
| Platoon leaders: Abbr. | 22 |
| Platoon members, briefly | 24 |
| Platoon members, for short | 26 |
| Platoon or squadron, e.g. | 25 |
| Platte River native people | 26 |
| Platte River Valley figure | 26 |
| Platte River valley native | 26 |
| Platte Valley figure (Var.) | 27 |
| Platter by The Platters, e.g. | 29 |
| Platter for an audition | 23 |
| Platter player, briefly | 23 |
| Platter player, for short | 25 |
| Platter spinners, for short | 27 |
| Platters from the past | 22 |
| Platypi-to-be, perhaps | 22 |
| Platypus Olympic mascot | 23 |
| Platypus-like, in a way | 23 |
| Play "Simon says" | 27 |
| Play --- (feign death) | 22 |
| Play a bit better than | 22 |
| Play a card out of suit | 23 |
| Play a child's game | 23 |
| Play a fiddle, in a way | 23 |
| Play a loggers' game | 24 |
| Play a Merv Griffin creation | 28 |
| Play a par-3 perfectly | 22 |
| Play a part or play part | 24 |
| Play a part, or play part | 25 |
| Play a role none too subtly | 27 |
| Play a sax solo, maybe | 22 |
| Play a set with the band | 24 |
| Play a trump, in Bridge | 23 |
| Play about author Capote | 24 |
| Play about Caius Marcius | 24 |
| Play about rival composers | 26 |
| Play about Sadie Thompson | 25 |
| Play an "it" game | 27 |
| Play an amorous detective? | 26 |
| Play an ocarina monotonously | 28 |
| Play around with some music | 27 |
| Play baseball with cheeses? | 27 |
| Play based on a Maugham story | 29 |
| Play based on a Maugham tale | 28 |
| Play based on Maugham tale | 26 |
| Play before the headliner | 25 |
| Play better defense than? | 25 |
| Play both sides, in a way | 25 |
| Play by a different __ rules | 28 |