| Parent's peremptory "reason" | 42 |
| Pop artist who used faceless stick figures | 42 |
| Prog rock band with guitarist Robert Fripp | 42 |
| Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas | 42 |
| Priest who warned against the Trojan horse | 42 |
| Prefix meaning "toward the left" | 42 |
| Protagonist of The Book Thief ___ Meminger | 42 |
| Pilfer device for maintaining copter blade | 42 |
| Players of certain pear-shaped instruments | 42 |
| Patrick of TV's 'The Avengers' | 42 |
| Powerful dog that loves a Passover staple? | 42 |
| Product that competes with Uncle Ben's | 42 |
| Policy about starting the work week right? | 42 |
| Pulitzer-winning biographer: 1933 and 1937 | 42 |
| Place for Manhattanites to drink and dance | 42 |
| Poet who wrote "The Kiss . . . " | 42 |
| Plea to avoid bankruptcy from 1983 to 1986 | 42 |
| Persian mathematician known for his poetry | 42 |
| Pretty good (but not great), as chances go | 42 |
| Perfume ingredient in a Maryland ballpark? | 42 |
| Plant also called "live-forever" | 42 |
| Popular reality show, with "The" | 42 |
| Pi ___, "Life of Pi" protagonist | 42 |
| Prince _____ Island, Northwest Territories | 42 |
| Pol who called Reagan the Teflon President | 42 |
| Painter of "Potter's Wheel"? | 42 |
| Plantation in the musical "Mame" | 42 |
| Purchase of one who's looking for love | 42 |
| Part of the "Stare Trek" series? | 42 |
| Pop-singing alter ego of Victoria Beckham? | 42 |
| Paul Scott tetralogy, with "The" | 42 |
| Potential result of a conflict of interest | 42 |
| Prefix before -cide for assassins, perhaps | 42 |
| Portrayer of the Cisco Kid: 1945–50 | 42 |
| Parallelogram with four equal sides (Var.) | 42 |
| Paleontologist known for his work in Kenya | 42 |
| Portrayer of many O'Neill protagonists | 42 |
| Passed in a car on a lightly traveled way? | 42 |
| Porcine comic who once had her own sitcom? | 42 |
| Plummer film in 1969, with "The" | 42 |
| Phrase used to prompt a "Please" | 42 |
| Place to see "The Twilight Zone" | 42 |
| Private eye in Lawrence Block's novels | 42 |
| Proteus's domain, with "the" | 42 |
| Person who's looking forward to things | 42 |
| Pergolesi's "La ___ Padrona" | 42 |
| Palance's Oscar-nominated film of 1953 | 42 |
| Place to gas up with a scallop as its logo | 42 |
| Prinze, Jr.'s "--- All That" | 42 |
| Places to kill time at an airport terminal | 42 |
| Patient's response to the psychiatrist | 42 |
| Perform on "American Idol," e.g. | 42 |
| Priory of ___ (religious conspiracy group) | 42 |
| Partner of ''take notice'' | 42 |
| Paul Simon's "Slip ___ Away" | 42 |
| Person who uses a sleeve for a napkin, say | 42 |
| Prefix for many cold-weather product names | 42 |
| Playing surface for World Cup participants | 42 |
| Popular block puzzle first put out in 1969 | 42 |
| Part of a Beethoven work? [Hyundai, Honda] | 42 |
| Product with a museum in Austin, Minnesota | 42 |
| Pasta dispensed from an aerosol container? | 42 |
| Prequel to "The Endless Summer"? | 42 |
| Past the "Sell By" date, perhaps | 42 |
| Prepare to recite the Pledge of Allegiance | 42 |
| Persevere, like a lightning rod installer? | 42 |
| Proofreader's ''save'' | 42 |
| Playground equipment with pendulous pieces | 42 |
| Putting seatbacks in the upright position? | 42 |
| Pray after completing a Hail Mary, perhaps | 42 |
| Person with a magnifying glass, for short? | 42 |
| Part of the wrapping of a gift from Nokia? | 42 |
| Poe classic (with ''The'') | 42 |
| Porter Wagoner "My Last Two ___" | 42 |
| Present from "Green Acres" star? | 42 |
| Places '50s teens might have danced at | 42 |
| Psychologist's prescription, sometimes | 42 |
| Plastic that can be made permanently rigid | 42 |
| Pulitzer-winning novel by A.B. Guthrie Jr. | 42 |
| Pinero's "Trelawny of _____" | 42 |
| Porcine constructors, with "The" | 42 |
| Part of the wrapping of a gift from Rolex? | 42 |
| Popular celebration site at year's end | 42 |
| Puente known as "The Mambo King" | 42 |
| Printing on many concert souvenir T-shirts | 42 |
| People afraid of playing the stock market? | 42 |
| Paper ___ (blatant white-collar criminal?) | 42 |
| Poem for Dec. 26, 1776–Jan. 3, 1777 | 42 |
| Product once endorsed by Anna Nicole Smith | 42 |
| Pop music's Bananarama and Salt-N-Pepa | 42 |
| Poetic word that begins with an apostrophe | 42 |
| President dubbed "His Accidency" | 42 |
| Probable race losers low in wheel rods (9) | 42 |
| Part of the invisible spectrum, informally | 42 |
| Program's "Go back!" command | 42 |
| Patriot's old-fashioned underwear item | 42 |
| P. Wylie's "Night ___ Night" | 42 |
| Prefix meaning ''heavens'' | 42 |
| Pope whose election begat the Great Schism | 42 |
| Phoebe's sister on "Friends" | 42 |