| A piece of a three-piece | 24 |
| A picture may cover it | 22 |
| A picky person may pick one | 27 |
| A pick may be placed in it | 26 |
| A pièce de résistance | 27 |
| A Phillies' manager: 1987 | 29 |
| A pet collar repels them | 24 |
| A person, to that person | 24 |
| A person ___ tastes (boor) | 26 |
| A person who is not a doofus | 28 |
| A person may go off with this | 29 |
| A person in it is out of it | 27 |
| A perro might chase one | 23 |
| A perp might give it to a cop | 29 |
| A perissodactyl, for short | 26 |
| A period of instruction | 23 |
| A performer may keep one | 24 |
| A Perfect Circle's logo | 27 |
| A Perón or Gabor | 23 |
| A Perón and a Gabor | 22 |
| A pep talk may boost it | 23 |
| A people of east Africa | 23 |
| A penny short of a dime | 23 |
| A penny is a small one | 22 |
| A penny in a pot, perhaps | 25 |
| A pencil, compared to a pen | 27 |
| A peak piled on Olympus | 23 |
| A Peace Prize winner: 1978 | 26 |
| A Peace Prize winner in 1908 | 28 |
| A Peace Prize Nobelist: 1925 | 28 |
| A Peace Nobelist: 1978 | 22 |
| A Peace Nobelist: 1946 | 22 |
| A PC user may press one | 23 |
| A Patrick Henry delivery | 24 |
| A path set aside for walking | 28 |
| A pastor, perhaps (Abbr.) | 25 |
| A past tense of Greek verbs | 27 |
| A password provides it | 22 |
| A password may provide it | 25 |
| A pass that isn't forward | 29 |
| A party to, as a secret | 23 |
| A part of some bicycles | 23 |
| A Parisian's right? | 23 |
| A paramour of Catherine II | 26 |
| A parallelogram: Abbr. | 22 |
| A parallelogram (var.) | 22 |
| A palooka is a bad one | 22 |
| A palindrome's pivot | 24 |
| A pal of Bo's in a film | 27 |
| A pair of sleigh pullers | 24 |
| A pair of jacks, maybe | 22 |
| A pair of diminutive miners | 27 |
| A pair of deuces beats it | 25 |
| A pageant winner's title | 28 |
| A padlock may pass through it | 29 |
| A paddlewheel may propel one | 28 |
| A pad helps protect it | 22 |
| A P.M. under George III | 23 |
| A or O, at the blood bank | 25 |
| A or E, but not I, O or U | 25 |
| A or B, in personalities | 24 |
| A or B, as personalities | 24 |
| A or B in blood typing, e.g. | 28 |
| A one, or one living in 1-A | 27 |
| A nymph pursued by Pan | 22 |
| A nurse may draw from it | 24 |
| A number, in combinations | 25 |
| A number's homophone | 24 |
| A number of perfect people? | 27 |
| A number of dental patients? | 28 |
| A nucleic acid, for short | 25 |
| A nose that certainly shows | 27 |
| A Northeastern U. grad | 22 |
| A North Caucasic language | 25 |
| A North Caucasian language | 26 |
| A nonproductive tenant? | 23 |
| A nonmusician may have one | 26 |
| A nod could express it | 22 |
| A Nobelist in Medicine: 1970 | 28 |
| A Nobelist for Peace: 1927 | 26 |
| A Nobelist for Peace: 1901 | 26 |
| A Nobel Prize physicist: 1976 | 29 |
| A Nobel Prize physicist: 1954 | 29 |
| A Nobel physicist: 1925 | 23 |
| A Nobel Institute site | 22 |
| A Night at the Opera tune | 28 |
| A nickname for Elizabeth | 24 |
| A nickel gets you five | 22 |
| A newlywed's title | 22 |
| A New Zealander, informally | 27 |
| A new one may be turned over | 28 |
| A new one is celebrated | 23 |
| A nervous rocker is this | 24 |
| A nerd may not have one | 23 |
| A nephew of King Arthur | 23 |
| A nephew of Donald's | 24 |
| A nephew of Donald Duck | 23 |
| A neighbor of Thailand | 22 |
| A neighbor of Switzerland | 25 |
| A neighbor of Saudi Arabia | 26 |