| A perfect score on it is 180: Abbr. | 35 |
| A period from late Apr. to late Oct. | 36 |
| A periodontist's petunia, e.g.? | 35 |
| A person can take big strides with this | 39 |
| A person doing a duck walk grasps these | 39 |
| A person may be taken in by taking it | 37 |
| A person may have one of invincibility | 38 |
| A person might drop one while dieting | 37 |
| A person might earn one for a score | 35 |
| A person might hang one on a road | 33 |
| A person who sounds like a car dealership | 41 |
| A person who's short might run to it | 40 |
| A person's relatives, collectively | 38 |
| A pharaoh vis-Ã -vis Horus, in Egyptian myth | 46 |
| A physical feature that sounds like a place | 43 |
| A pillar of Solomon's Temple | 32 |
| A pint, typically, at a blood bank | 34 |
| A piquet pack is used to play it | 32 |
| A pitcher may put it on the ball | 32 |
| A pitcher should have a low one, in brief | 41 |
| A place only Buzz Lightyear could go? | 37 |
| A place that sounds like a daily paper | 38 |
| A place to play the ponies from afar | 36 |
| A plane's rudder controls it | 32 |
| A play might be seen better with this | 37 |
| A poem like this / Of 17 syllables / Split 5-7-5 | 48 |
| A poet laureate of Byron's day | 34 |
| A polar bear might be found on one | 34 |
| A policeman's isn't happy | 33 |
| A pop group might have one on Facebook | 38 |
| A popular one is "In your face!" | 42 |
| A possible title for this puzzle | 32 |
| A practice that can't be wrong? | 35 |
| A pricey one may be made of koa wood | 36 |
| A prima donna's needs stroking | 34 |
| A primary source for Scandinavian mythology | 43 |
| A prior engagement, in socialspeak | 34 |
| A private eye might videotape one | 33 |
| A process everyone would like to avoid? | 39 |
| A process many would like to avoid? | 35 |
| A pronoun + renter's contract + eye part = ? | 48 |
| A prospector might get a lode of it | 35 |
| A Pulitzer Prize nonfiction work: 1986 | 38 |
| A Pulitzer Prize winner in Letters: 1980 | 40 |
| A pupil's in the center of it | 33 |
| A qualifier for Red Cross donations?: Abbr. | 43 |
| A quiet period follows it: Abbr. | 32 |
| A quip, weather you like it or not (Part 1) | 43 |
| A record turnover may bring this up | 35 |
| A redhead might look for a high one: Abbr. | 42 |
| A reflection on Queen Elizabeth? | 32 |
| A regular one has internal angles of 140 degrees | 48 |
| A regular one's angles are each 135 degrees | 47 |
| A resident of the "Gem State" | 39 |
| A restaurant may hold it for you | 32 |
| A Revolutionary officer and a Civil War commander | 49 |
| A rich person might have a private one | 38 |
| A rival in "The Rivals" | 33 |
| A Roberts whose ensign flies over Tulsa | 39 |
| A rock band's name often appears on it | 42 |
| A Room of One's Own author | 33 |
| A round-tripper earns at least one: Abbr. | 41 |
| A runner who loses may still win it | 35 |
| A safe bet for having a ball indoors | 36 |
| A Salieri work opened it in 1778 | 32 |
| A salt of a water-insoluble acid | 32 |
| A scene of Caesar's conquests | 33 |
| A school might be found using it | 32 |
| A scoreless inning makes it go down | 35 |
| A season in India, with "the" | 39 |
| A section of Yankee Stadium's golf course? | 46 |
| A security guard might ask you to do this | 41 |
| A security guard might be on this | 33 |
| A secy might take one from a CEO | 32 |
| A sergeant might ask a soldier to pick it up | 44 |
| A sergeant might ask soldiers to pick it up | 43 |
| A servant in "The Taming . . . " | 42 |
| A set for ''The White Shadow'' | 46 |
| A setting for "The Student Prince" | 44 |
| A seventh-century Irish bishop who became a saint | 49 |
| A ship from the Middle East, perhaps | 36 |
| A shopping mall has lots of these | 33 |
| A short rest, in actors' lingo | 34 |
| A shortening, in more ways than one | 35 |
| A shot is often harmless if it caroms off of one | 48 |
| A sickening amount of Mr. Bradley? | 34 |
| A single may get you one, briefly | 33 |
| A single might get you one: Abbr. | 33 |
| A sixth of the way through the hour | 35 |
| A slowpoke may be asked to pick it up | 37 |
| A small diner might be part of it | 33 |
| A small one helps the indecisive | 32 |
| A small one makes extinction more likely | 40 |
| A smartypants may have a big one | 32 |
| A sniggler's a giggler when he snares it | 44 |
| A socially correct goose in Boston? | 35 |
| A solar system "ice giant" | 36 |
| A soldier might get a medal for it | 34 |
| A soldier's gear, for example | 33 |
| A solitary wasp was named after this actress | 44 |