| Like a porter at a pub, say | 27 |
| Like a porterhouse | 18 |
| Like a portion of some people's income | 42 |
| Like a posh hotel | 17 |
| Like a possible perp | 20 |
| Like a post-eruption landscape | 30 |
| Like a post-fender-bender fender | 32 |
| Like a post-shower mirror | 25 |
| Like a postscript | 17 |
| Like a pothook | 14 |
| Like a powerful checker | 23 |
| Like a powerful speech | 22 |
| Like a practical-joker's party punch | 40 |
| Like a prebirth body position | 29 |
| Like a prefabricated house | 26 |
| Like a prefall Humpty Dumpty | 28 |
| Like a pregnancy | 16 |
| Like a preliminary rinse | 24 |
| Like a presidential suite, presumably | 37 |
| Like a prestidigitator | 22 |
| Like a pretentious museumgoer | 29 |
| Like a pretty lass | 18 |
| Like a pretzel | 14 |
| Like a preying lion | 19 |
| Like a prima ballerina | 22 |
| Like a primary school: Abbr. | 28 |
| Like a prime candidate for disillusionment | 42 |
| Like a primer | 13 |
| Like a prison window | 20 |
| Like a private | 14 |
| Like a private meeting with the judge | 37 |
| Like a private peeling potatoes | 31 |
| Like a private tutoring session | 31 |
| Like a prize-winning witch's costume | 40 |
| Like a prized cabernet, say | 27 |
| Like a pro | 10 |
| Like a pro guard | 16 |
| Like a procrastinator's bills | 33 |
| Like a prof. emerita | 20 |
| Like a prof. emeritus | 21 |
| Like a prof. emeritus: Abbr. | 28 |
| Like a professional haircut | 27 |
| Like a professor played by Jerry Lewis | 38 |
| Like a programmed computer | 26 |
| Like a prom | 11 |
| Like a promising future | 23 |
| Like a proper rescuee | 21 |
| Like a proposer's knee | 26 |
| Like a propped pigskin | 22 |
| Like a protuberance | 19 |
| Like a proverbial 10 | 20 |
| Like a proverbial bug in a rug | 30 |
| Like a proverbial calf | 22 |
| Like a prune | 12 |
| Like a psychological complex | 28 |
| Like a psychopath | 17 |
| Like a pterodactyl | 18 |
| Like a pub drink | 16 |
| Like a pub's ale | 20 |
| Like a Puccini aria | 19 |
| Like a Puccini product | 22 |
| Like a puck, sometimes | 22 |
| Like a pump | 11 |
| Like a pumpless well | 20 |
| Like a punished G.I., perhaps | 29 |
| Like a punk kid | 15 |
| Like a punk rocker's hair, maybe | 36 |
| Like a punk rocker's hair, perhaps | 38 |
| Like a punk's hair, perhaps | 31 |
| Like a punker's hair | 24 |
| Like a puppy | 12 |
| Like a purring Jaguar | 21 |
| Like a pusher, maybe | 20 |
| Like a pussycat | 15 |
| Like a puzzle by Gene or Billy? | 31 |
| Like a pvt. peeling potatoes | 28 |
| Like a pvt. washing dishes, say | 31 |
| Like a pyramid | 14 |
| Like a Quaker breakfast, perhaps | 32 |
| Like a quark | 12 |
| Like a quarter's edge | 25 |
| Like a queen | 12 |
| Like a question that isn't a question | 41 |
| Like a quick glance | 19 |
| Like a quick learner | 20 |
| Like a quick links round | 24 |
| Like a quick study | 18 |
| Like a quick-learning musician | 30 |
| Like a quidnunc | 15 |
| Like a quiet town | 17 |
| Like a quilt | 12 |
| Like a quodlibet | 16 |
| Like a rabbit's foot or four-leaf clover | 44 |
| Like a rabbit's foot, supposedly | 36 |
| Like a rabid music collector | 28 |
| Like a raccoon | 14 |
| Like a raccoon's tail | 25 |
| Like a race winner | 18 |
| Like a racetrack | 16 |
| Like a rail | 11 |