| Half a meal | 11 |
| Half a medium? | 14 |
| Half a Melville title | 21 |
| Half a menu combo | 17 |
| Half a Midwest city | 19 |
| Half a million bimillennia | 26 |
| Half a mint | 11 |
| Half a mint? | 12 |
| Half a mo | 9 |
| Half a motorboat sound | 22 |
| Half a mountaineering expedition | 32 |
| Half a Muppet duo | 17 |
| Half a musical title | 20 |
| Half a nautical reply | 21 |
| Half a North African dish | 25 |
| Half a Northwest city | 21 |
| Half a notable Hungarian? | 25 |
| Half a noted comedy duo | 23 |
| Half a number puzzle | 20 |
| Half a nursery-rhyme spider's description: Var. | 51 |
| Half a Pacific isle | 19 |
| Half a pair for pairs | 21 |
| Half a pair meaning ''very small'' | 50 |
| Half a pair of winter boots | 27 |
| Half a pairat the fireplace | 27 |
| Half a pairs pair | 17 |
| Half a panda's name | 23 |
| Half a patio pair | 17 |
| Half a pay period, often | 24 |
| Half a pendulum's path | 26 |
| Half a pendulum's path? | 27 |
| Half a Pennsylvania college | 27 |
| Half a percussion pair | 22 |
| Half a perfume oil | 18 |
| Half a Philippine city's name | 33 |
| Half a Philippine seaport | 25 |
| Half a phrase warning not to spit when you talk | 47 |
| Half a picker-upper | 19 |
| Half a pinochle | 15 |
| Half a pint | 11 |
| Half a platter | 14 |
| Half a playground argument | 26 |
| Half a playground unit? | 23 |
| Half a pole pair | 16 |
| Half a police interrogation team, maybe | 39 |
| Half a Polynesian island | 24 |
| Half a pop quartet | 18 |
| Half a popular game | 19 |
| Half a prison | 13 |
| Half a proverbial exchange | 26 |
| Half a publishing duo | 21 |
| Half a puzzle | 13 |
| Half a quart | 12 |
| Half a quarter | 14 |
| Half a quarter gallon | 21 |
| Half a quarter? | 15 |
| Half a quartet | 14 |
| Half a quote from Samuel Butler | 31 |
| Half a rack | 11 |
| Half a rack, on a buck | 22 |
| Half a radio device | 19 |
| Half a reassurance | 18 |
| Half a rebellion started in Kenya | 33 |
| Half a rebuke | 13 |
| Half a record | 13 |
| Half a rectangle | 16 |
| Half a rhyming flavor | 21 |
| Half a rice diet disease | 24 |
| Half a ring | 11 |
| Half a ring? | 12 |
| Half a ritual | 13 |
| Half a robotic name | 19 |
| Half a rock group? | 18 |
| Half a room, perhaps | 20 |
| Half a round | 12 |
| Half a rum cocktail | 19 |
| Half a rum cocktail? | 20 |
| Half a rum drink | 16 |
| Half a Russian news agency | 26 |
| Half a S.A. city | 16 |
| Half a sailor's disease | 27 |
| Half a Samoan city | 18 |
| Half a Samoan city name | 23 |
| Half a Samoan island's name: Var. | 37 |
| Half a Samoan port | 18 |
| Half a Samoan town | 18 |
| Half a sawbuck | 14 |
| Half a scary fly | 16 |
| Half a sch. year | 16 |
| Half a school year | 18 |
| Half a school year: Abbr. | 25 |
| Half a school yr. | 17 |
| Half a sci-fi name | 18 |
| Half a sci-fi sign-off | 22 |
| Half a score | 12 |
| Half a score of mountain goats? | 31 |
| Half a seafood entree? | 22 |
| Half a seafood order | 20 |
| Half a seaport name | 19 |
| Half a semestre | 15 |