| The phone company personified | 29 |
| The Piano actress Holly | 26 |
| The pick of the litter | 22 |
| The Pied Piper's river | 26 |
| The pig in pigs in blankets | 27 |
| The Pillsbury Doughboy? | 23 |
| The pilots of Penzance: Abbr. | 29 |
| The Piltdown Man, e.g. | 22 |
| The Piltdown Man, notably | 25 |
| The Pink Panther and others | 27 |
| The Pink Panther, e.g. | 22 |
| The pinnace stops here | 22 |
| The Pioneers of the N.C.A.A. | 28 |
| The piper's son, in rhyme | 29 |
| The pipes are calling him | 25 |
| The Pirates of the N.C.A.A. | 27 |
| The Pistons, on a scoreboard | 28 |
| The Pistons, the Pacers, etc. | 29 |
| The pit, to Pythagoras | 22 |
| The pits, figuratively | 22 |
| The place to go in lilac time | 29 |
| The place to go in London | 25 |
| The Plame affair, informally | 28 |
| The planets and others | 22 |
| The planets, basically | 22 |
| The Platters hit of 1955 | 24 |
| The Platters platter player | 27 |
| The plot thickens with it | 25 |
| The podiatrist told a few ___ | 29 |
| The Pogues frontman Shane | 25 |
| The Pogues singer MacGowan | 26 |
| The Pogues' MacGowan | 24 |
| The Pogues' ___ MacGowan | 28 |
| The point of a church? | 22 |
| The point of math class | 23 |
| The point of using a marker? | 28 |
| The Pointer Sisters, e.g. | 25 |
| The police might do this | 24 |
| The Police or Green Day | 23 |
| The Police tribute band | 23 |
| The Ponderosa's series | 26 |
| The Pont Neuf spans it | 22 |
| The Pont Royal spans it | 23 |
| The Ponte Vecchio crosses it | 28 |
| The Ponte Vecchio spans it | 26 |
| The pool-playing actor __ | 25 |
| The pool-playing chef __ | 24 |
| The pool-playing mobster __ | 27 |
| The pool-playing shopper __ | 27 |
| The Pope, among Catholics | 25 |
| The Popeil of vacuums? | 22 |
| The Port Huron Statement org. | 29 |
| The Post or News, e.g. | 22 |
| The Posts' TV companion | 27 |
| The power behind the thrown? | 28 |
| The Prada family, for example | 29 |
| The Prado's locale | 22 |
| The Preserver of Hinduism | 25 |
| The Preserver, in Hinduism | 26 |
| The president's is west | 27 |
| The President's plane | 25 |
| The Presidential yacht? | 23 |
| The press is the fourth one | 27 |
| The press liaison officer ___ | 29 |
| The previous spring, say | 24 |
| The price of subtlety? | 22 |
| The primary instruction | 23 |
| The Prince of Tides star | 27 |
| The problem wiht this clue | 26 |
| The problem with these clue? | 28 |
| The proof --- the pudding | 25 |
| The proof ___ the pudding | 25 |
| The prophet Muhammad, for one | 29 |
| The pulp in pulp fiction | 24 |
| The Pyramid in Memphis, e.g. | 28 |
| The pyramids of Giza, e.g. | 26 |
| The Pyramids, essentially | 25 |
| The pyramids, for pharaohs | 26 |
| The Quakers of the Ivy L. | 25 |
| The Quakers of the Ivy League | 29 |
| The Quakers' school | 23 |
| The queen as a subject? | 23 |
| The Queen City of the Rockies | 29 |
| The Queen of Latin Pop | 22 |
| The Queen of Soul, familiarly | 29 |
| The Queen's fruitcakes | 26 |
| The Queen's pilots | 22 |
| The queen's salon? | 22 |
| The quicker picker upper? | 25 |
| The quicker picker-upper? | 25 |
| The Quilts of ___ Bend | 22 |
| The quiz-grading machine ... | 28 |
| The R of TRMS on MSNBC | 22 |
| The R's of education | 24 |
| The Rabbi's helpmeet | 24 |
| The radius extends from it | 26 |
| The Raffaello, for one | 22 |
| The rain in Spain, mainly? | 26 |
| The rainbow's ___ gold | 26 |
| The Ramblers of the N.C.A.A. | 28 |