| Precise-sounding blade | 22 |
| Precisely what's needed | 27 |
| Precisely when called for | 25 |
| Precision in small details | 26 |
| Precision marching group | 24 |
| Precision or refinement | 23 |
| Precitizenship course: Abbr. | 28 |
| Precocious Ivy Leaguer! | 23 |
| Precocious Plaza resident | 25 |
| Precocious Roald Dahl heroine | 29 |
| Precognition, for short | 23 |
| Precollege exams: Abbr. | 23 |
| Precollege hurdle, for short | 28 |
| Precollege test, for short | 26 |
| Precomputer animation frame | 27 |
| Preconceived notions, perhaps | 29 |
| Precursor of the space age | 26 |
| Precursor to a play-off | 23 |
| Precursor to adoption, often | 28 |
| Precursor to duke or bishop | 27 |
| Precursor to revolution | 23 |
| Precursor to rocksteady | 23 |
| Precursor to rocksteady music | 29 |
| Precursor to Surrealism | 23 |
| Precursor to the Fall Classic | 29 |
| Precursor to the teleprompter | 29 |
| Predator traps do their job? | 28 |
| Predator's hideaway | 23 |
| Predator's vehicle | 22 |
| Predators in the papyrus | 24 |
| Predatory bird near oceans | 26 |
| Predatory critter, in dialect | 29 |
| Predatory mammal of old | 23 |
| Predatory sea creature | 22 |
| Predatory women of myth | 23 |
| Predecessor of Ariel Sharon | 27 |
| Predecessor of barrel or pie | 28 |
| Predecessor of Benedict XV | 26 |
| Predecessor of bus or present | 29 |
| Predecessor of Colin Jost | 25 |
| Predecessor of cure or tome | 27 |
| Predecessor of de Klerk | 23 |
| Predecessor of Dinkins | 22 |
| Predecessor of febrero | 22 |
| Predecessor of George I | 23 |
| Predecessor of Gregory XI | 25 |
| Predecessor of Him and Her | 26 |
| Predecessor of John XXIII | 25 |
| Predecessor of Katie Couric | 27 |
| Predecessor of Khrushchev | 25 |
| Predecessor of mode or king | 27 |
| Predecessor of Pope Hilarius | 28 |
| Predecessor of rock steady | 26 |
| Predecessor of surrealism | 25 |
| Predecessor of the boliviano | 28 |
| Predecessor of the CIA | 22 |
| Predecessor of the KGB | 22 |
| Predecessor of the N.R.C. | 25 |
| Predecessor of the strip | 24 |
| Predecessor of Tiberius | 23 |
| Predecessor of Web forums | 25 |
| Predecessor of Windows | 22 |
| Predecessor to Spike TV | 23 |
| Predecessors of P.A.T.'s | 28 |
| Predecessors of photocopies | 27 |
| Predecessors of sigmas | 22 |
| Predecessors of Virgos | 22 |
| Predetermine illicitly | 22 |
| Predetermine the outcome | 24 |
| Predetermine the victory | 24 |
| Predetermined illegally | 23 |
| Predetermines the outcome | 25 |
| Predicament at the bar? | 23 |
| Predicament on the links | 24 |
| Predicament or protuberance | 27 |
| Predicaments in ghost stories | 29 |
| Predicate, or part of it | 24 |
| Predict the actions of | 22 |
| Predict, as from omens | 22 |
| Predict, as the future | 22 |
| Predicting a market decline | 27 |
| Prediction from some voices | 27 |
| Predictive deck, supposedly | 27 |
| Predictive indications | 22 |
| Predictor of things to come? | 28 |
| Predictor's pasteboard | 26 |
| Predilection for detection | 26 |
| Predisposed to fightin' | 27 |
| Predoctoral tests, for short | 28 |
| Predominant, as a ruler | 23 |
| Preemie setting: Abbr. | 22 |
| Preeminent bike builder | 23 |
| Preeminent existentialist | 25 |
| Preeminent industrialist | 24 |
| Preempted, as a sitcom | 22 |
| Preexisting condition? | 22 |
| Prefabricated army shelter | 26 |
| Preface for pod or dent | 23 |
| Preface to a point of view | 26 |
| Prefer, at a racetrack | 22 |