| Pre-dye shade, perhaps | 22 |
| Pre-dye hair shade, often | 25 |
| Pre-DVD format | 14 |
| Pre-DVD dual den item | 21 |
| Pre-duel move | 13 |
| Pre-doctorate experience | 24 |
| Pre-doctoral exam | 17 |
| Pre-discount price | 18 |
| Pre-diploma hurdles | 19 |
| Pre-diploma hurdle | 18 |
| Pre-dinner quaff | 16 |
| Pre-dinner event | 16 |
| Pre-dinner drinks | 17 |
| Pre-diesel power | 16 |
| Pre-desktop publishing photo | 28 |
| Pre-Depression event | 20 |
| Pre-deduction revenue | 21 |
| Pre-deal round | 14 |
| Pre-deal ritual | 15 |
| Pre-deal request | 16 |
| Pre-deal pot contents | 21 |
| Pre-deal poker ritual | 21 |
| Pre-deal payments | 17 |
| Pre-deal payment | 16 |
| Pre-deal demand | 15 |
| Pre-deal chip | 13 |
| Pre-dawn phenomenon | 19 |
| Pre-date stop-off, maybe | 24 |
| Pre-cut, as lumber | 18 |
| Pre-cube sugar shapes | 21 |
| Pre-Crosby crooner | 18 |
| Pre-crisis period | 17 |
| Pre-Cretaceous time | 19 |
| Pre-credits words | 17 |
| Pre-costume ball activity | 25 |
| Pre-Cortés Mexican | 21 |
| Pre-cook, as ribs before grilling | 33 |
| Pre-Constitution letters? | 25 |
| Pre-configured Windows folder | 29 |
| Pre-Communist Russian ruler | 27 |
| Pre-Communist leader | 20 |
| Pre-Communist autocrat | 22 |
| Pre-communism leader (Var.) | 27 |
| Pre-Communism leader | 20 |
| Pre-commercial words | 20 |
| Pre-commercial admonition | 25 |
| Pre-combat ritual | 17 |
| Pre-Columbus Mexican | 20 |
| Pre-Columbian South American | 28 |
| Pre-Columbian Peruvian | 22 |
| Pre-Columbian name for Florida | 30 |
| Pre-Columbian Mexicans | 22 |
| Pre-Columbian Mexican | 21 |
| Pre-Columbian Indians | 21 |
| Pre-Columbian empire | 20 |
| Pre-Columbian civilization | 26 |
| Pre-Columbian belief | 20 |
| Pre-Columbian Andean | 20 |
| Pre-Columbian Amerind | 21 |
| Pre-Columbian American | 22 |
| Pre-Columbian | 13 |
| Pre-color computer display | 26 |
| Pre-college, to textbook publishers | 35 |
| Pre-college, for short | 22 |
| Pre-college yrs. | 16 |
| Pre-college years, for short | 28 |
| Pre-college grades | 18 |
| Pre-college exams, for short | 28 |
| Pre-college exams | 17 |
| Pre-college exam: abbr. | 23 |
| Pre-college exam (abbr.) | 24 |
| Pre-college exam | 16 |
| Pre-coll., in education | 23 |
| Pre-coll. years | 15 |
| Pre-coll. school | 16 |
| Pre-coll. exams | 15 |
| Pre-coll. exam | 14 |
| Pre-coll. catchall | 18 |
| Pre-coll. | 9 |
| Pre-cola soft drink | 19 |
| Pre-coffee condition? | 21 |
| Pre-closing bell excitement | 27 |
| Pre-Civil War statesman known as "The Great Compromiser" | 66 |
| Pre-Civil War region | 20 |
| Pre-Civil War magazine magnate | 30 |
| Pre-Civil War abolitionist | 26 |
| Pre-CIA org. | 12 |
| Pre-chrysalis stage | 19 |
| Pre-Christmas time | 18 |
| Pre-Christmas season | 20 |
| Pre-Christmas ritual | 20 |
| Pre-Christmas purchase | 22 |
| Pre-Christmas preparation #3 | 28 |
| Pre-Christmas preparation #2 | 28 |
| Pre-Christmas preparation #1 | 28 |
| Pre-Christmas period | 20 |
| Pre-Christmas destination for many | 34 |
| Pre-Christmas best sellers | 26 |
| Pre-Christmas activity | 22 |
| Pre-Christian priest | 20 |