| Persian bigwig of yore | 22 |
| Persian carpet, perhaps | 23 |
| Persian despotic governor | 25 |
| Persian Empire founder | 22 |
| Persian foe of the Jews | 23 |
| Persian for "crown" | 29 |
| Persian for "king" | 28 |
| Persian for "place" | 29 |
| Persian Gulf address in 1991 | 28 |
| Persian Gulf capital (Var.) | 27 |
| Persian Gulf commodity | 22 |
| Persian Gulf diet observers? | 28 |
| Persian Gulf measurements | 25 |
| Persian Gulf nation: Var. | 25 |
| Persian Gulf oil country | 24 |
| Persian Gulf peninsula | 22 |
| Persian Gulf potentate | 22 |
| Persian Gulf potentates | 23 |
| Persian Gulf sultanate | 22 |
| Persian Gulf War loser | 22 |
| Persian king, 522-486 B.C. | 26 |
| Persian language unit? | 22 |
| Persian mathematician Khayyam | 29 |
| Persian owner's purchase | 28 |
| Persian person of note | 22 |
| Persian poet Khayyám | 23 |
| Persian poet: 13th century | 26 |
| Persian potentate, once | 23 |
| Persian prince's title | 26 |
| Persian protest, perhaps | 24 |
| Persian ruler exiled in 1979 | 28 |
| Persian ruler's domain | 26 |
| Persian title of honor | 22 |
| Persian unit of length | 22 |
| Persian War participant | 23 |
| Persian's associate | 23 |
| Persian's descendant | 24 |
| Persian's diamond collar? | 29 |
| Persian's neighbor | 22 |
| Persian-founded religion | 24 |
| Persians' contemporaries | 28 |
| Persians' foes: 550 B.C. | 28 |
| Persians, to the 300, e.g. | 26 |
| Persist despite hardship | 24 |
| Persistence of memory concept | 29 |
| Persistence of memory effect | 28 |
| Persistence over resistance | 27 |
| Persistent personal quirk | 25 |
| Persistent photographers? | 25 |
| Persistent problem of a sort | 28 |
| Persistent salesperson? | 23 |
| Persistent Seuss character | 26 |
| Persistent, as a backache | 25 |
| Persistent, irritating critic | 29 |
| Persistently aggravates | 23 |
| Persistently annoying people | 28 |
| Persistently annoying sound | 27 |
| Persistently picked on | 22 |
| Persists, with "in" | 29 |
| Persists, with "on" | 29 |
| Person place or thing | 23 |
| Person 'twixt 12 and 20 | 27 |
| Person above criticism | 22 |
| Person against government | 25 |
| Person akin to a dumb bunny | 27 |
| Person always on the go | 23 |
| Person asking too much | 22 |
| Person at a foundation | 22 |
| Person at the controls | 22 |
| Person at the fridge, maybe | 27 |
| Person bearing witness | 22 |
| Person born in the 1950s | 24 |
| Person born on April 1, e.g. | 28 |
| Person born on April 1st | 24 |
| Person born on Oct. 3, e.g. | 27 |
| Person bringing a case | 22 |
| Person bringing suit in court | 29 |
| Person calling the shots | 24 |
| Person catching some rays | 25 |
| Person comparing costs | 22 |
| Person completing a sentence | 28 |
| Person concerned with numbers | 29 |
| Person creating rhymes | 22 |
| Person doing a practice run | 27 |
| Person dressed in black | 23 |
| Person eligible for casting? | 28 |
| Person enslaved by another | 26 |
| Person equipped for clamming | 28 |
| Person everyone blames | 22 |
| Person exercising power | 23 |
| Person failing to keep up | 25 |
| Person familiar with dudes? | 27 |
| Person feared by a xenophobe | 28 |
| Person feeling abhorrence | 25 |
| Person filling a blue book | 26 |
| Person firing a locomotive | 26 |
| Person found in a tree: Abbr. | 29 |
| Person from Boston, slangily | 28 |
| Person from Copenhagen | 22 |
| Person from Des Moines | 22 |