Letter P
Premarital activity
Pursuing romantically
Patagonia product
Patsy's eye covering?
Pea jacket material
Peacoat material
Product of Australia
Providing warmth, perhaps
Penner of the line "Language is wine upon the lips"
Party for sheep shearers?
Purposeless thinking.
poor white person in S States
Prehistoric creature with tusks and a trunk
Products of sheep coats
Presses a suit
Presses one's suit
Pursues romantically
Pursues with chocolates and flowers, perhaps
Pursues with flowers and chocolates
Pursues, in a way
Pseudoscientific, say
Phenomena where unsupported sources are cited so much that they become urban legends
"Phrase" or "sentence"
Part of a phrase
Personal guarantee
Phrase unit
Popular Microsoft product
Popular Microsoft software
Promise without really delivering, at first
Promise, or part of a promise
Promise, so to speak
Put into a phrase
product Microsoft boss
Psychological test.
Paper/pencil pastimes
Puzzle in which "lead" may become "gold"
Puzzle invented by Lewis Carroll (and a hint to this puzzle's theme)
Puzzle that involves changing one letter per "rung"
Puzzle that may go from "hard" to "easy"
Puzzle theme + "my heart!"
Promise from a nocturnal insect?
Puns et al.
Puns, for example
Popular blogging platform
Partner of music
Psychobabble
Popular pencil puzzle
Puzzle whose grid has no black squares
person skilled in using words
Puzzle dragged on, enveloping confused Republican squad (4, 6)
Popular Facebook game ... and a hint to the starred clues
Popular Scrabble-inspired app for social wordplay
Poet William who wrote "The Prelude"
Poet William: "The child is father..."
Poet laureate, 1843-50
Passed slowly, with "on"
Proved durable
Put on, as a uniform
Passed slowly, as time
Passed tediously
Part of W.P.A.
Productive activity
Prove effective
Put in one's eight hours
physical or mental effort directed to making or doing something
properly Operate
Person who cannot stop working
Person who doesn't know when to quit
person with a compulsive need to work
People in need of some playtime?
Place to do a job
Persevere on a job
Practice and practice and practice
Plant person
person who works in a specified way
Process for completing tasks
Painter's offer to an elephant trainer?
Part of an umpire's job description?
Part of a Voltaire comment
Paper ___ (clerk who's a real nag?)
Person dependably slogging away
person or thing that does a lot of dull or routine work
Plugging away on an assignment
Proletarian, e.g.
Part of an old-time song title.
Pluralizing liberally?
Port near Solway Firth.
Piece of unfinished business
Put in overtime
Prioritization of personal and professional responsibilities
Professional challenge?
person who works with another person
people who work
Prerequisite for going into labor?
place, such as a factory or office, where people work
Plies one's trade
____ puzzle: solves a crossword
Puts serious effort into
Period with a lunch break
Place of manufacture
Place where things are made
Place with sawdust
Performs flawlessly, as if by magic
Paintings depicting noisy dogs?
Puts effort toward
Prepare, as a proposal
Produce visibly, as a sweat
Precursor of an alien occupation?
PULITZER (Joseph), newspaper of
Paper in which the first crossword appeared
Paper that started crosswords.
Part of WHO.
Particular class of people
Philosopher's concept
Pulitzer Paper 24 sheets of
Pulitzer's New York newspaper
Pulitzer's New York paper
Pulitzer's paper
paper Pulitzer 1934 writer
Paul Wolfowitz is its president
person who belongs to a specified class or domain
Possessing much life experience
Places to look for life
Person tracked by Guinness
Potential cause of the apocalypse
Part of the Internet
Poe's "The Conqueror ___"
Poe's "conqueror"
Proceed deviously
Program that attacks computers
Participated slyly
piece of apparatus in which worms are kept for study
Portal represented by each pair of circled letters in this puzzle
Passages in sci-fi books?
Push away (from), as with undermining techniques
plant used to cure worms
Payoff for early birds
Place of a famous Diet, 1521.
Prey for moles
Prizes for early birds
Perspective seen from below
Poor perspective
Plant used for absinthe
Plant used in absinthe
Potential cause of vehicular hydroplaning
Put on joyfully
Pacer, often
Producer of wrinkles, it's said
person who tends to worry, esp about insignificant matters
Part 3 of the motto
Poor prognosis
Perturbed re snow, go downhill
Prognosis that a problem has only just begun
Part 3 of the perspective
Prays
Pessimist's expectation.
Pessimistic expectation
Pits, so to speak
Poorest possible
Plant suffux
Plant, in combos
Plant, vegetable or herb
Pot herb.
Part of FWIW, in online chatting
Potentially beneficial
Person of high position
Power tool brand with an apt-sounding name
Part 3 of the cosmetic question
Phrase expressing astonishment, often used rhetorically
plant from which curare is obtained
Put together seamlessly
Produced on a loom
Part of a generic dog bark
Performed spectacularly, informally
Perform spectacularly
Provider of "!!!"
Puritanical Aussie
Puritanical person, to an Aussie
Part of F.D.R.'s New Deal
Pool stat?
Path followed by a specter?
Panini alternative
Potentially low-carb alternative to a sandwich
Pre-Xmas buy
Prep, as presents
Prepare a birthday gift
Prepare a gift
Prepare a gift for presentation
Prepare for Christmas, say
Prepare for the present day?
Prepare gifts
Prepare presents
Prepare to send
Prepare, as a gift
Prepare, as for a baby shower, say
Prepare, as presents
Present coverage
Present day trash
Present paper
Prettify the Christmas gifts
Prettify with paper
Put a bandage around
Protective style of sunglasses or porch design
Pro with bows?
Prepare a CD gift?
Postshow cast celebrations, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues
Post-filming celebration ... or each set of noted letters?
Prepared a present
Part of the packaging.
Participating in a December chore
Present preparation
Present surroundings?
Purchase for the present
Putting the final touches on an Ed Asner Pixar film?
Panini alternatives
Prepares a gift
Prepares a present
Prepares for Christmas Day, maybe
Prepares for a birthday party, say
Prepares gifts
Prepares presents
Prepares, as a gift
Prepares, as gifts.
Prepares, as presents
Pack produce?
Period spent preparing the presents?
Pre-Christmas affair?
Pre-Christmas gathering?
Parts of Santa's elves training?
Postgame commentary
PIGFISH
Popular aquarium fish with powerful teeth
peacock fish
Portrayer of a furious Holmes?
Perpetrate, as havoc
Popular December decoration
Prize at the top of a maypole
Period when every car was a junker?
P. C. ___, "Beau Geste" novelist
Pert bird
painful parting
Plumber's collection
Picture of a small bird?
Piano tuner's tool.
Pry free
Pull (from)
Pull violently
Pull with a twist
Place to get pickpocketed?
Prime places for takeovers?
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