Crossword Clues — P

425 clues starting with P

Clue	Answer	Letters
Places for skeletons?	CLOSETS	7
Paging at an emporium?	MALLCALL	8
Prepares for publication/Communist deeds?	REDACTS	7
Places to raise a flap?	TEEPEES	7
Places for drawings?	WELLS	5
Puts in the mail?	ARMORS	6
Places where one is driven to drink?	BARCARS	7
Pulls some strings?	RETUNES	7
Places to make connections?	SOCKETS	7
Played a card?	JOKED	5
Pieces of eight?	QUARTETS	8
Putting weight on?	LOADING	7
Puts on the staff?	NOTATES	7
Played a knight game?	JOUSTED	7
Places that serve O.J. beside the links?	IHOPS	5
Pats on the back?	BURPS	5
Providers of peer review?	EYETESTS	8
Producers of wall flowers?	CREEPERS	8
Protesting the pro-testers?	ANTINUKE	8
Places to store barrels?	HOLSTERS	8
Pressing concern for an astronaut?	GFORCE	6
Proved to be quite a poser?	MODELED	7
Points of view?	PIXELS	6
Pleasing bank statement?	NOFEES	6
Puts one and one together?	MARRIES	7
Poses a bomb threat?	GOESDEEP	8
Pulled strings, maybe?	STRUMMED	8
Providers of housewarmings?	BOILERS	7
Produced laugh lines?	QUIPPED	7
Parasites in Yellowstone?	BEARLICE	8
Price for a dozen?	ADIME	5
Postseason game for dirty players?	WASHBOWL	8
Part of a bottom dollar?	REDCENT	7
Peril for a veterinarian?	CATNIP	6
Place to bill and coo?	MUSHROOM	8
Poor pigskin defense?	OPENLINE	8
Proper job for a supporter?	SHORING	7
Place for a partridge?	PEARTREE	8
Place to see stars?	MALIBU	6
Poet to whom much is ode?	PINDAR	6
Part of a daily dozen?	SITUPS	6
Pick of the litter?	TOPDOG	6
Pet of the wicked witch?	BLACKCAT	8
Put in a good word for?	REWROTE	7
Person who makes beds?	GARDENER	8
Provider of sound bytes?	CDROM	5
Paint the town red?	BARHOP	6
Place to put a tiger?	GASTANK	7
Picture gallery site?	WALLET	6
Property of housepets?	TAMENESS	8
Part of a pound?	STRAYDOG	8
Place for bats?	BELFRY	6
Play with horses?	EQUUS	5
Place for posers?	ARTCLASS	8
Part of a wrecking crew?	VANDAL	6
Part of sweeping efforts?	DUSTPAN	7
Provide juice for?	PLUGIN	6
Person of note?	COMPOSER	8
Price of a movie?	VINCENT	7
People in circles?	WINNERS	7
Pool ball hitter?	CUETIP	6
Place to come clean?	WASHROOM	8
Place for impulse buying?	ETRADE	6
Possible result of pathological lying?	BEDSORE	7
Place to look for the silver lining?	MINEPIT	7
People whose business is picking up?	TRASHMEN	8
Provider of inside information?	CATSCAN	7
Place to find lemons?	CARSALE	7
Poetry in prison?	CONVERSE	8
Proceed à la Captain Kirk?	BOLDLYGO	8
Portable service station?	TEACART	7
Penchant for taking off?	NUDISM	6
Place on a TV?	MELROSE	7
Place for a pickup line?	CABSTAND	8
Point of writing?	PENNIB	6
Person of color?	ROYGBIV	7
Place to get a reaction in school?	CHEMLAB	7
Pointer for gold seekers?	RAINBOW	7
Person behind bars?	TAVERNER	8
Person who has something going on?	WEARER	6
Philosophy of bare existence?	NUDISM	6
Peer group setting?	JURYBOX	7
Part of a fin?	ONECLAM	7
People who no what they like?	PURITANS	8
Protection for someone on the run?	SKIPARKA	8
Piece of pi?	LONGI	5
Part of a pay-as-you-go plan?	TURNPIKE	8
Piece of lobster or shrimp?	EYESTALK	8
Period of seven days without bathing?	REEKWEEK	8
Pair of elephants?	BIGEARS	7
Present day demand?	OPENIT	6
Part of a track team?	RAILCAR	7
Person making a check mark?	ENDORSEE	8
Participate in drag?	PEELOUT	7
Place for extra notes on a piano?	TIPJAR	6
Person on your bad side?	EVILTWIN	8
Preceder of his name?	WHATS	5
Place for barkers?	SEALERY	7
Pound of flesh?	FISTBUMP	8
Practice with locks and pins?	JIUJITSU	8
Pre-2004 purchase from G.M.?	NEWOLDS	7
Place for cultural studies?	BIOLAB	6
Purveyor of some sour grapes?	BADLOSER	8
Provider of up-to-the-minute info?	BIGHAND	7
Person trying to move things?	MARKETER	8
People who need to find a john?	VICECOPS	8
Pitcher of coffee?	VALDEZ	6
Person on tap?	BARKEEP	7
Part of an ice pack?	SLEDDOG	7
Place a levy on pushpins?	TAXTACKS	8
Person who has a way with words?	LINGUIST	8
Perk for a pool party?	HOVLANE	7
Price of an opera?	LEONTYNE	8
Post production locale?	NEWSROOM	8
People down under?	CAVERS	6
Popular line of footwear?	JUSTDOIT	8
Put locks on?	BEWIG	5
Producer of cheap shots?	DIVEBAR	7
Piece of trash?	JUNKART	7
Producer of a hair-raising experience?	ROGAINE	7
Place to put everything you can?	CUPBOARD	8
Person having one too many?	BIGAMIST	8
Part of a blue book?	SEXSCENE	8
Partner of Wright?	READE	5
Person from Bonn?	GERWOMAN	8
Pen in Tulsa?	OKCORRAL	8
Promoter of Paris?	CAPULET	7
Present day figure in Paris?	PERENOEL	8
Playing card, at times	TRUMP	5
Played a bugle	TONGUED	7
Prepared to fire	AIMED	5
Presented, as a problem	POSED	5
Plays swing music	JIVES	5
Played at the park	SWUNG	5
Preparing veal cutlets	BREADING	8
Prepares, as the way	PAVES	5
Prefixes for heart cavities	ATRIS	5
Protected, as a castle	MOATED	6
Press or secret	AGENT	5
Petals, for staple, e.g.	ANAGRAM	7
Places for piercings	EARLOBES	8
Places for medals	CHESTS	6
Parts of molecules	ATOMS	5
Plays the lead	STARS	5
Partners of bounds	LEAPS	5
Pontius et al.	PILATES	7
Prepares baking apples	CORES	5
Polishes, as copy	EDITS	5
Paris zoo animals	TIGRES	6
Preserved in a way	FROZE	5
Puts in order	RANKS	5
Places for chapeaux	TETES	5
Pills at parties	BORES	5
Parts of an indictment	COUNTS	6
Places a bet	ANTES	5
Pistols and swords, e.g.	SIDEARMS	8
Plays in the water	SPLOSHES	8
Pleasing, old style	AMENE	5
Places for bells	DOORS	5
Painting, sculpture, etc.	FINEARTS	8
Puts into words	PHRASES	7
Pass, as time	SPEND	5
Periods between wars	PEACES	6
Plays at love	FLIRTS	6
Pipe for Xaviera Hollander?	HOOKAH	6
Plants of a region	FLORA	5
Puts back on the payroll	REHIRES	7
Painting, music, etc.	FINEARTS	8
Places for watches	WRISTS	6
Participants in a winter sport	SLEDDERS	8
Preakness winner, 1942	ALSAB	5
Puts in place	SITUATES	8
Performs for the class	RECITES	7
Pencils, toward the end	STUBS	5
Primes the piano again	RETUNES	7
Prefixes for stars	ASTEROS	7
Pays a visit	CALLS	5
Places of worship	ALTARS	6
Prefixes for limestones	CALCS	5
Places for berets	TETES	5
Plays safe on a bet	HEDGES	6
Places for pigs	POKES	5
Plants evidence on	FRAMES	6
Prepares corned beef	BOILS	5
Played on home grounds	HOSTED	6
Prepared, as baking apples	CORED	5
Prentiss of films	PAULA	5
Polished with abrasive paper	SANDED	6
Points of origin or growth	MATRICES	8
Pronouncements from on high	DICTA	5
Plants hated by hay-fever sufferers	RAGWEEDS	8
Processes of diffusion	OSMOSES	7
Pointed a weapon	AIMED	5
Petrels, shearwaters, etc.	SEABIRDS	8
Plains sights of yore	TEPEES	6
Partners of silks	SATINS	6
Passes a law	ENACTS	6
Pairs or bridges	SPANS	5
Packs or dips	LADES	5
Postures at bat	STANCES	7
Purveyors of yesteryear	ICEMEN	6
Photographs of a sort	STILLS	6
Prevents, in law	ESTOPS	6
Parts of books	SPINES	6
Pins on record players	SPINDLES	8
Prepared apples for baking	CORED	5
Plus and minus	SIGNS	5
Penned, as pigs	STIED	5
Packs of camels	HERDS	5
Prevents from action	DETERS	6
Puts on the payroll	HIRES	5
Plays a part	PRETENDS	8
Played on words	PUNNED	6
Padding in packing	DUNNAGE	7
Plants used for salads	ENDIVES	7
Pressed into action	EGGED	5
Piloting is one	CAREER	6
Parts of peonies	PETALS	6
Pursuits of knights-errant	QUESTS	6
Places in front	PREFIXES	8
Pertaining to buttock muscles	GLUTEAL	7
Placed in a hoisting device	SLUNG	5
Polyps or many-sided problems	HYDRAS	6
Parties to a legal transaction	PRIVIES	7
Preakness winner: 1942	ALSAB	5
Performs in the office pool	TYPES	5
Periods of immaturity	NONAGES	7
Parts of ears	TRAGI	5
Piers, in architecture	ANTAE	5
Pets feared by postmen	BITERS	6
Parts of a slip	STRAPS	6
Pens and cobs	SWANS	5
Participated in a roundup	HERDED	6
Parts of pitchforks	TINES	5
Paying homage to	HONORING	8
Piers on a blueprint	ANTAE	5
Permitted by law	LICIT	5
Puts on guard	ALERTS	6
Puts to the proof	TRIES	5
Parts of candles	WICKS	5
Places for matériel	ARSENALS	8
Puts on display	TROTSOUT	8
Pertaining to atmospheric weight	BARIC	5
Pulled out the spurry	WEEDED	6
Protected; cared for	MOTHERED	8
Photocopies, for short	STATS	5
Pass over, along or through	TRAVERSE	8
Phones or visits	CALLS	5
Pertaining to fissures	RIMAL	5
Plays out history	REENACTS	8
Places for étudiants	ECOLES	6
Partners of T bolts	TNUTS	5
Prepared to grin and bear it	STEELED	7
Parts of dishwashers	RACKS	5
Prepares for business after a holiday	REOPENS	7
Points out as relevant	CITES	5
Pours from bottle to bottle	DECANTS	7
Plied with potions	DOSED	5
Printing that includes new material	REPLATE	7
Parts of refrains	TRALAS	6
Plays the stoolie	RATSON	6
Practiced girth control	DIETED	6
Perceived by feeling	SENSATE	7
Pieces of tobacco	QUIDS	5
Plays a platter	SPINS	5
Puts to flight	ROUTS	5
Pitts et al.	ZASUS	5
Prepared sheets for ironing	DAMPENED	8
Pays (the bill)	FOOTS	5
Plotted on a curve	GRAPHED	7
Phyllis of comedy	DILLER	6
Portions of the iris	AREOLAS	7
Provided protective ditches	DIKED	5
Pilots a plane	AVIATES	7
Portions for certain agents	TENTHS	6
Prepared potatoes, in a way	RICED	5
Prepayments to authors	ADVANCES	8
Pennies from heaven?	RAINFALLS	9
Pointed surgical tool	TROCAR	6
Proves or discerns	MAKESOUT	8
Pays homage to	HONORS	6
Pertaining to apples	MALIC	5
Played a part to the hilt	EMOTED	6
Played a PArt	ACTEDOUT	8
Places for juristic PAnels	VENUES	6
Planes, for short	AEROS	5
Parts of stairways	RISERS	6
Pinched with a jerk	TWEAKED	7
Provided, as a service	RENDERED	8
Poisoning of the blood	UREMIA	6
Procures the release of	BAILSOUT	8
Passé service person	ICEMAN	6
Pounded the keys	TYPED	5
Parts of the brain	SENSORIA	8
Painting the town red	ONATEAR	7
Provides funds for	ENDOWS	6
Projecting pipe rim	FLANGE	6
Pertaining to part of the eye	CORNEAL	7
Preakness winner: 1955	NASHUA	6
Pods of flax	BOLLS	5
Products of compasses	CIRCLES	7
Placing in a box	ENCASING	8
Puts the lid back	RESEALS	7
Protruding, as from water	EMERSED	7
Packages of yarn or thread	PUTUPS	6
Pass another racer twice	RELAP	5
Pieces of pottery	SHARDS	6
Parts of violins	NECKS	5
Plants with sour juice	SORRELS	7
Preliminaries at a track meet	HEATS	5
Projecting gun platform on a warship	SPONSON	7
Pages for binding	CAHIER	6
Pertaining to a skin ailment	PSORIC	6
Photos of yesteryear	TINTYPES	8
Pass off as genuine	FOIST	5
Plants of the mustard family	RADISHES	8
Piloted a plane	AVIATED	7
Patrolled a beat	POLICED	7
Participants in a bee	SPELLERS	8
Printing processes, for short	ROTOS	5
Peered, in a way	SQUINTED	8
Pertaining to the wind	EOLIAN	6
Protections for princely palaces	MOATS	5
Preludes to night	SUNDOWNS	8
Patterns used by sign painters	STENCILS	8
Plants grown for their pods	OKRAS	5
Pencils that have seen better days	STUBS	5
Pertaining to squirrels	SCIURINE	8
Pass on, as responsibilities	DEVOLVE	7
Patrolled the highway	POLICED	7
Plants of the buttercup family	ANEMONES	8
Poked around, as in search	ROOTED	6
Placed at an angle	CANTED	6
Preserves in brine	PICKLES	7
Pips or pippins	LULUS	5
Ponds, in poesy	MERES	5
Prepared vegetables for soup	PUREED	6
Possessed of learning	LETTERED	8
Parts of flowers	COROLLAS	8
Plays, in rugby	SCRUMS	6
Places for orators	PODIUMS	7
Packs down lightly	TAMPS	5
Parts of structures	HBEAMS	6
Persons relying on experience vis-à-vis theory	EMPIRICS	8
Producing eggs hatched outside the body	OVIPARAL	8
Padded coverings for teapots	COZIES	6
Pertaining to summer	ESTIVAL	7
Preserved, in a way	POTTED	6
Plowed fields at haciendas	ARADAS	6
Positions of control	HELMS	5
Prepares to dice chicken	DEBONES	7
Puts on, as a play	STAGES	6
Perfumes with a thurible	CENSES	6
Plants modified by environment	ECADS	5
Parts of a city skyline	SPIRES	6
Parts of shoes	INSTEPS	7
Parts of plows	SHARES	6
Pertaining to rock layers	STRATIC	7
Pieces passing through deadeyes	LANYARDS	8
Pertaining to a branch	RAMAL	5
Plods in paludal places	SLOGS	5
Pertaining to a dowry	DOTAL	5
Putting on guard	ALERTING	8
Pays close attention	HEEDS	5
Parts of a mosaic	TESSERAE	8
Prepares beef, in a way	CORNS	5
Pertaining to legal debate	FORENSIC	8
Pertaining to motion	KINETIC	7
Pass on some bus lines	TRANSFER	8
Parts of ships	KEELS	5
Pertaining to milk	LACTIC	6
Punches out material on a machine	DIECUTS	7
Pokes fun at	DERIDES	7
Palms with orange fruits	BETELS	6
Plods through clods	SLOGS	5
Pendulous fold near the neck	DEWLAP	6
Pulls from, as a purse	WRESTS	6
Parts of lamps	HARPS	5
Played the coquette	FLIRTED	7
Painting on dry plaster	SECCO	5
Provided another hand	REDEALT	7
Palmated, as many water birds	WEBBY	5
Places for acting and transacting	RIALTOS	7
Pertaining to the blood	HEMIC	5
Praying woman, in classical art	ORANS	5
Periods of calm	LULLS	5
Poinsettias and rubber trees	SPURGES	7
Pertaining to meaning in language	SEMANTIC	8
Prosecutes a criminal successfully	JAILS	5
Places to get bogged down	MORASSES	8
Places for dancing, for short	DISCOS	6
Parts of songs	VERSES	6
Pieces of concrete or bread	SLABS	5
Prancers in the paddocks	COLTS	5
Pursued a long fly	CHASED	6
Paved, in a way	TARRED	6
Places for skeletons	CLOSETS	7
Prepared clams, in a way	STEAMED	7
Prepares an oven before baking	PREHEATS	8
Places for yachts	BASINS	6
Places for horseshoers	SMITHIES	8
Perches for crows	TREETOPS	8
Pertaining to touch	TACTILE	7
Plied with the grape	WINED	5
Pillars of ore	JAMBS	5
Places in a pantheon	DEIFIES	7
Positions at bridge	WESTS	5
Paths cut by scythes	SWATHS	6
Pays for all	TREATS	6
Pets with blue-black tongues	CHOWS	5
Propelled a proa	ROWED	5
Propelled a keelboat	POLED	5
Puts away childish things	MATURES	7
Prepared a mackerel	BROILED	7
Persons on P.O. posters	MENACES	7
Prepares an egg dish	SHIRRS	6
Pillars used as monuments	STELAE	6
Payments for passage	TOLLS	5
Pressed the juice out	REAMED	6
Pursuers of knowledge	STUDENTS	8
Pains in the neck	CRICKS	6
Parts of clocks	SPRINGS	7
Parts of a grand	CNOTES	6
Puts on the block	AUCTIONS	8
Pipes for cables	DUCTS	5