| Player of Lincoln in "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," 1940 | 62 |
| Player of Mark Antony in 1953's "Julius Caesar" | 61 |
| Player of one of the women in Robert Altman's "3 Women" | 69 |
| Player of Professor Trelawney in the Harry Potter films | 55 |
| Player of Richard Nixon in "Blind Ambition" | 53 |
| Player of the bad teacher in "Bad Teacher" | 52 |
| Player of the evil Blofeld in "Never Say Never Again" | 63 |
| Player of the national pastime who became a National | 52 |
| Player of the Queen Mother in "The Queen," 2006 | 57 |
| Player of the younger Cunningham on "Happy Days" | 58 |
| Player on a team that lost all 16 of its 2008 NFL games | 55 |
| Player on the 1979 N.B.A. championship team, for short | 54 |
| Player tied with Elston Howard for the most World Series losses (6) | 67 |
| Player who scored the goal that won the Stanley Cup on May 10, 1970 | 67 |
| Player with a record 2,131st consecutive game on 9/6/95 | 55 |
| Player with the most consecutive MLB All-Star Game starts, with 17 | 66 |
| Players who spend most of their time on the bench, briefly | 58 |
| Playground equipment only the extremely strong can dive into? | 61 |
| Playing card brand introduced after Lindbergh's flight | 58 |
| Playing regularly, perhaps, as on a school athletic team | 56 |
| Playing with the bow bouncing lightly off the strings | 53 |
| Plays the banjo, like someone "in the kitchen with Dinah" | 67 |
| Plays the opening of ''Rhapsody in Blue'' | 57 |
| Playwright Bernard who created "The Partridge Family" | 63 |
| Playwright David who wrote "Glengarry Glen Ross" | 58 |
| Playwright Edward who wrote "The Zoo Story" | 53 |
| Playwright Ensler of "The Vagina Monologues" | 54 |
| Playwright Joe who wrote "What the Butler Saw" | 56 |
| Playwright John who wrote "Look Back in Anger" | 56 |
| Playwright with a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame | 52 |
| Plácido who is general director of the Los Angeles Opera | 59 |
| Plea from a union leader to lay off the workers he represents? | 62 |
| Plea of a player drawing KILLJO- (1952, 1964 and 1990) | 54 |
| Pleading question said while pulling on Mom's sleeve | 56 |
| Pleasant spot for Heathcliff's Wuthering Heights? | 53 |
| Pleased look (as depicted by this puzzle's grid) | 52 |
| Pleasure trip, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | 52 |
| Plimpton book subtitled "An American Biography" | 57 |
| Plotting, writing dialogue, designing sets and the like? | 56 |
| Plumber's concern at the allergist's office? | 52 |
| Plummet ... or what this puzzle's theme answers do? | 55 |
| Plural French word that spells its singular English form in reverse | 67 |
| Plural suffix with "auction" or "musket" | 60 |
| Plus-size model who goes by a single palindromic name | 53 |
| Plus-sized model who hosted "More to Love" | 52 |
| Pocket pair nicknamed "speed limit" in Texas hold'em | 66 |
| Poe called it "grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous" | 68 |
| Poe called it "grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous" | 69 |
| Poe poem about getting good reception with the girl of his dreams? | 66 |
| Poe poem set in a "ghoul-haunted woodland" | 52 |
| Poe poem written at the time of the California Gold Rush | 56 |
| Poe's "queenliest dead that ever died so young" | 61 |
| Poehler who plays Michael Jackson on "SNL" | 52 |
| Poem set "in the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir" | 58 |
| Poem that begins "Ah, broken is the golden bowl!" | 59 |
| Poem that begins "The skies they were ashen and sober" | 64 |
| Poem that begins "You may talk o' gin and beer" | 61 |
| Poem that ends "I am the captain of my soul" | 54 |
| Poem that ends "This ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir" | 62 |
| Poem that opens "Once upon a midnight dreary ..." | 59 |
| Poem used in Beethoven's "Choral Symphony" | 56 |
| Poem whose first, third and seventh lines are identical | 55 |
| Poem with the line "Poems are made by fools like me" | 62 |
| Poem with the line "Who intimately lives with rain" | 61 |
| Poet John who translated Dante's "Divine Comedy" | 62 |
| Poet John who won a Pulitzer Prize for "77 Dream Songs" | 65 |
| Poet John who wrote "Lives of X," an autobiography in verse | 69 |
| Poet Nash who rhymed "Bronx" with "thonx" | 61 |
| Poet portrayed by Vincent Price in "Son of Sinbad" | 60 |
| Poet Rich who wrote "Diving Into the Wreck" | 53 |
| Poet who made radio broadcasts in support of Mussolini | 54 |
| Poet who originated the phrase "harmony in discord" | 61 |
| Poet who won a 1967 Pulitzer for "Live or Die" | 56 |
| Poet who won a Pulitzer for "John Brown's Body" | 61 |
| Poet who won a Pulitzer for "The Dust Which Is God" | 61 |
| Poet who wrote "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" | 62 |
| Poet who wrote "Do I dare / Disturb the universe?" | 60 |
| Poet who wrote "Don't send a poet to London" | 58 |
| Poet who wrote "Hope springs eternal in the human breast" | 67 |
| Poet who wrote "If called by a panther, don't anther" | 67 |
| Poet who wrote "If you want to be loved, be lovable" | 62 |
| Poet who wrote "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal" | 69 |
| Poet who wrote "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" | 66 |
| Poet who wrote "Pinkle Purr" and "Binker" | 61 |
| Poet who wrote "She walks in beauty, like the night" | 62 |
| Poet who wrote "They also serve who only stand and wait" | 66 |
| Poet who wrote "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold" | 68 |
| Poet who wrote of "Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp" | 63 |
| Poet who wrote of the wasp, "I distrust his waspitality" | 66 |
| Poet whose work was read in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" | 67 |
| Poet whose works were set to music by Schumann, Strauss and Brahms | 66 |
| Poet with the longtime NPR program "A Word in Your Ear" | 65 |
| Poet's creation, like "have" and "shave" | 64 |
| Poet's ending with "what" or "how" | 58 |
| Poetic preposition most puzzlemakers are tired of writing clues for | 67 |
| Poetry's ''rare and radiant maiden'' | 56 |
| Point "Rosemary's Baby" star in the right direction? | 66 |
| Point farthest from the moon in a satellite's orbit | 55 |
| Point in a planet's orbit that's closest to the sun | 59 |
| Point of discussion at Otis Spunkmeyer headquarters? | 52 |