| ___ pudding (nursery rhyme dish) | 32 |
| ___ Pueblo | 10 |
| ___ Pueblo (Unesco World Heritage site) | 39 |
| ___ Puente, the Mambo King | 26 |
| ___ Puf fabric softener | 23 |
| ___ Puffs | 9 |
| ___ Puffs (General Mills cereal) | 32 |
| ___ puisne | 10 |
| ___ pull | 8 |
| ___ pull (common sports injury) | 31 |
| ___ pull (possible reason for being on the disabled list) | 57 |
| ___ pump | 8 |
| ___ pump (drainage aid) | 23 |
| ___ pump (plumbing device) | 26 |
| ___ pump (stimulates) | 21 |
| ___ punches (be blunt) | 22 |
| ___ Punk | 8 |
| ___ Punk (French house duo) | 27 |
| ___ punk (Mighty Mighty Bosstones genre) | 40 |
| ___ Punk (Reel Big Fish genre) | 30 |
| ___ punk (The Mighty Mighty Bosstones' genre) | 49 |
| ___ pura | 8 |
| ___ Purchase (1853 land acquisition) | 36 |
| ___ purpose | 11 |
| ___ purpose (having two uses) | 29 |
| ___ pursuit | 11 |
| ___ pushers | 11 |
| ___ put (field event) | 21 |
| ___ put (remain) | 16 |
| ___ putt | 8 |
| ___ Puzzlemaker Week | 20 |
| ___ Pye (helicopter traffic reporter on "The Simpsons") | 65 |
| ___ Pyle, Nabors character | 26 |
| ___ pyramid, four examples of which are seen in this puzzle | 59 |
| ___ Pythias | 11 |
| ___ Python | 10 |
| ___ q's (best behavior) | 27 |
| ___ qua non | 11 |
| ___ qua non (necessity) | 23 |
| ___ quail (bloop hit) | 21 |
| ___ qual (just as they come) | 28 |
| ___ quality | 11 |
| ___ quality (shoddy) | 20 |
| ___ quam videri | 15 |
| ___ quam videri (N.C. motto) | 28 |
| ___ quam videri (N.C.'s motto) | 34 |
| ___ quam videri (North Carolina motto) | 38 |
| ___ quam videri (North Carolina state motto) | 44 |
| ___ quam videri (North Carolina's motto) | 44 |
| ___ quam videri (to be rather than to seem) | 43 |
| ___ quandary | 12 |
| ___ Quarter | 11 |
| ___ quarter ( refuse to seek leniency) | 38 |
| ___ quarters | 12 |
| ___ Québécois (political party) | 37 |
| ___ que (because): Fr. | 22 |
| ___ que (because, in Brest) | 27 |
| ___ queen | 9 |
| ___ quel (as is, in Arles) | 26 |
| ___ quel (such as it is, in Tours) | 34 |
| ___ quenelle (Pa. poached dumpling?) | 36 |
| ___ Quentin | 11 |
| ___ Quested, "A Passage to India" woman | 49 |
| ___ Quested, woman in Forster's "A Passage to India" | 66 |
| ___ question | 12 |
| ___ question (ask) | 18 |
| ___ question (asked) | 20 |
| ___ question (debatable) | 24 |
| ___ question (disputes) | 23 |
| ___ question (drills the lecturer) | 34 |
| ___ question (inquire) | 22 |
| ___ question (inquires) | 23 |
| ___ question (raises doubt) | 27 |
| ___ qui peut | 12 |
| ___ qui vive | 12 |
| ___ quick retreat | 17 |
| ___ Quijano (Don Quixote's real name) | 41 |
| ___ quilt (modern memorial) | 27 |
| ___ Quimby (Beverly Cleary heroine) | 35 |
| ___ Quimby of children's books | 34 |
| ___ Quimby of children's lit | 32 |
| ___ Quimby, girl of children's lit | 38 |
| ___ Quinn, formerly of "S.N.L." | 41 |
| ___ Quintas Fronterizas, Texas | 30 |
| ___ Quivira National Monument | 29 |
| ___ Quivira National Monument, N.M. | 35 |
| ___ Quixote | 11 |
| ___ quiz | 8 |
| ___ Qum, Turkmen desert | 23 |
| ___ quo | 7 |
| ___ quo (fair swap) | 19 |
| ___ quo ante | 12 |
| ___ Quonsett (Oscar-winning role for Helen Hayes in "Airport") | 72 |
| ___ R's | 11 |
| ___ Ra of myth | 14 |
| ___ Rabbit | 10 |
| ___ Rabbit (literary trickster) | 31 |
| ___ Rabbit from "Song of the South" | 45 |
| ___ Rabbit or Fox | 17 |
| ___ Rabbit, Uncle Remus friend | 30 |