| It preceded Germany, once | 25 |
| It preceded Roosevelt | 21 |
| It preceded stereo | 18 |
| It precedes ''carte'' or ''mode'' | 65 |
| It precedes "Blastoff!" | 33 |
| It precedes "com" | 27 |
| It precedes "demonstrandum" | 37 |
| It precedes "fast" and follows "home" | 57 |
| It precedes "more" and "lasting" | 52 |
| It precedes "of A" | 28 |
| It precedes "of God" or "of war" | 52 |
| It precedes "Over here!" | 34 |
| It precedes "Romeo" | 29 |
| It precedes "Substituted Ball" in the Definitions section of the "Rules of Golf" | 100 |
| It precedes "the land of the free" | 44 |
| It precedes "Then fall, Caesar" | 41 |
| It precedes 1-2-3 | 17 |
| It precedes 10017 | 17 |
| It precedes 15 | 14 |
| It precedes a blowout? | 22 |
| It precedes a cast party | 24 |
| It precedes a general? | 22 |
| It precedes a KO | 16 |
| It precedes a laugh | 19 |
| It precedes a meal and cake | 27 |
| It precedes a phone number | 26 |
| It precedes a return | 20 |
| It precedes an extra point | 26 |
| It precedes an extra point? | 27 |
| It precedes an invention | 24 |
| It precedes an offering | 23 |
| It precedes any of the five circled "words" | 53 |
| It precedes ar | 14 |
| It precedes automne | 19 |
| It precedes back or foot | 24 |
| It precedes Baker | 17 |
| It precedes been | 16 |
| It precedes beth | 16 |
| It precedes Blue Jays' home games | 37 |
| It precedes calc., typically | 28 |
| It precedes carte or mode | 25 |
| It precedes cue | 15 |
| It precedes di or da, in a Beatles song | 39 |
| It precedes dos | 15 |
| It precedes dynamic | 19 |
| It precedes fast and follows farm | 33 |
| It precedes febrero | 19 |
| It precedes Fri. | 16 |
| It precedes Habakkuk | 20 |
| It precedes iota | 16 |
| It precedes Jones | 17 |
| It precedes jr. high | 20 |
| It precedes juin | 16 |
| It precedes Juliet | 18 |
| It precedes kissing and making up | 33 |
| It precedes la-la | 17 |
| It precedes lands, world or regions | 35 |
| It precedes Lent: Abbr. | 23 |
| It precedes mañana | 21 |
| It precedes Minor or Major | 26 |
| It precedes more and lasting | 28 |
| It precedes much testimony | 26 |
| It precedes one | 15 |
| It precedes pede or grade | 25 |
| It precedes poetica | 19 |
| It precedes quatro, in Rio | 26 |
| It precedes rank | 16 |
| It precedes Romeo | 17 |
| It precedes sodium in the periodic table | 40 |
| It precedes some deliveries | 27 |
| It precedes Taurus | 18 |
| It precedes the decimal point | 29 |
| It precedes the last words of the four longest puzzle answers | 61 |
| It precedes the late news | 25 |
| It precedes the names of rappers Wayne and Kim | 46 |
| It precedes theta | 17 |
| It precedes upsilon | 19 |
| It precedes where | 17 |
| It precedes work | 16 |
| It precedes Yankee in the phonetic alphabet | 43 |
| It prefers the night life | 25 |
| It prefers the nightlife | 24 |
| It prefers the nightlife? | 25 |
| It premiered at La Scala in 1904 | 32 |
| It premiered in Cairo | 21 |
| It premiered in Prague in 1921 | 30 |
| It premiered in Vienna in 1805 | 30 |
| It presents lots of problems? | 29 |
| It presents problems | 20 |
| It prevents a win-win situation | 31 |
| It prevents burn out: Abbr. | 27 |
| It prevents closings | 20 |
| It prevents coolant from escaping | 33 |
| It prevents drying up | 21 |
| It prevents flapping in the wind | 32 |
| It prevents knocks | 18 |
| It prevents overloads | 21 |
| It prevents rain-outs | 21 |
| It prevents rainouts | 20 |
| It prevents raises | 18 |