| A person who's short might run to it | 40 |
| A person who sounds like a car dealership | 41 |
| A person might hang one on a road | 33 |
| A person might earn one for a score | 35 |
| A person might drop one while dieting | 37 |
| A person may have one of invincibility | 38 |
| A person may be taken in by taking it | 37 |
| A person doing a duck walk grasps these | 39 |
| A person can take big strides with this | 39 |
| A periodontist's petunia, e.g.? | 35 |
| A period from late Apr. to late Oct. | 36 |
| A perfect score on it is 180: Abbr. | 35 |
| A perfect score in this game is 1,575 | 37 |
| A Perfect Circle guitarist James | 32 |
| A Pequod owner in "Moby-Dick" | 39 |
| A people of Nicaragua and Honduras | 34 |
| A pensioner may draw from one, briefly | 38 |
| A pencil may be parked behind here | 34 |
| A particular cake, strangely enough | 35 |
| A participant in a bill-of-exchange transaction | 47 |
| A parolee may wear a monitor on it | 34 |
| A parking garage may have special pricing for it | 48 |
| A pampered Lassie posing for pics? | 34 |
| A Pakistani poet might write in it | 34 |
| A pair of cards, a few hours from now? | 38 |
| A pair of cards reduced to a fine powder? | 41 |
| A paint primer may be used as one | 33 |
| A or E, or an IOU for that matter | 33 |
| A one-two-three inning makes it go down | 39 |
| A no. that's good when under 3.00 | 37 |
| A no-hitter compared to a one-hitter, e.g. | 42 |
| A night out at a restaurant, perhaps | 36 |
| A new rock band's may be deafening | 38 |
| A new one was celebrated 1/1/2001 | 33 |
| A new look at an 18th-century English writer | 44 |
| A negligent employer might owe it | 33 |
| A needle may be inserted into it | 32 |
| A name on an ice cream container | 32 |
| A name for the God of the Old Testament | 39 |
| A mysterious red hair on a shirt collar, perhaps? | 49 |
| A mutant from beyond your imagination! | 38 |
| A musical group that consists of nine people | 44 |
| A mulligan is sometimes given here | 34 |
| A movie star's may be inflated | 34 |
| A Moscow church is named for him | 32 |
| A Morse "I" requires two | 34 |
| A Morse "I" consists of two | 37 |
| A monster that will chill your blood! | 37 |
| A mom-and-pop store might apply for one: Abbr. | 46 |
| A modern style of French cooking | 32 |
| A model/actress's tasty catch? | 34 |
| A missing pencil may be behind one | 34 |
| A missile, not a game show pioneer | 34 |
| A miserly person, or when reversed, what he does | 48 |
| A Milton who found paradise in TV | 33 |
| A Mendelssohn opus in E flat major | 34 |
| A member of Springfield's Be Sharps | 39 |
| A member of a branch of the Siouan people | 41 |
| A measure of trouble or a Canadian car | 38 |
| A measure of common sense, at times | 35 |
| A measure in Winnie-the-Pooh books | 34 |
| A master of this really knows his chops | 39 |
| A Marx brother's book about shooting? | 41 |
| A Marx Brother instrument, to a Mario Brother | 45 |
| A marathon has about 26 of these | 32 |
| A many-splendored thing in Italy? | 33 |
| A Manhattan restaurant is named for him | 39 |
| A man's "better half" | 35 |
| A Mama of the Mamas and the Papas | 33 |
| A Mama of The Mamas & the Papas | 35 |
| A major one has no sharps or flats | 34 |
| A magnet is one, with its two opposite ends | 43 |
| A magnet attracts it in a physics experiment | 44 |
| A magician's deck may be full of them | 41 |
| A lumberjack might leave one behind | 35 |
| A low-flow showerhead will help lower it | 40 |
| A lot of thinking is done in them | 33 |
| A lot of Shakespeare's writing | 34 |
| A lot of music from the '60s was made on it | 47 |
| A lot of land, either way you look at it | 40 |
| A lot of foreign intelligence intercepts | 40 |
| A lot of a drill sergeant's drill | 37 |
| A lot of a car valet's income | 33 |
| A lot more than pleasingly plump | 32 |
| A lost driver may hang one, briefly | 35 |
| A lord in "The Winter's Tale" | 43 |
| A looker might give it ... or get it | 36 |
| A longtime magazine subscriber, e.g. | 36 |
| A long, amateurish piano recital, maybe | 39 |
| A long tale such as "Beowulf" | 39 |
| A long segment of "The Blues Brothers" | 48 |
| A long résumé may reflect one | 35 |
| A long one may have several legs | 32 |
| A locker room may have a strong one | 35 |
| A locale in Twain's "Roughing It" | 47 |
| A loaded gun is full of it (Abbr.) | 34 |
| A lively person may have a sparkling one | 40 |
| A little over half a century in old Rome | 40 |
| A little over a million dollars? | 32 |
| A little open, as an office door | 32 |