Letter P 225000–225250

Protesting dove? Painter’s shade? Person with petty complaints Piddly crustacean? Pro shaver and snipper? Person sacrificing life, on principle Pungent medicinal herb known as old man’s pepper Preparing cheese – harsh Patchy son (anag) – toady Pester – clawed mammal Preferred or usual (choice) Pillbox, porkpie and Panama Precision, thoroughness Pigeon, pipe or pot Pudding (in the UK) Pressurised container Paul Whitehouse is one Place behind a motorcyclist Public reprimand – I announced it (anag) Pull out – courage Promotional freebies (informally) Pretty as (anag) – a (woven) picture Paris, ____, 1984 film directed by Wim Wenders Protective spirit Pet Shop Boys and the Carpenters, say Pin hammered into ground Pop’s sis Perquisite – dividend – bonus Plant yielding a sugar substitute Place to change into swimming costume Patent – plain – public Piece of pasta – military decoration Pear type, or the event for which it was named Press one (anag) Panfryer’s protection Perdition – Kathy Bates film Pan or Pluto Picture houses Plates – state Picts’ silk (anag) Paid attention – like tomato purée Place frequented by holidaymakers – organise again? Place with very warm climate – patch on a star Plate perforated with a design, often lettering Pastoral – charmingly unsophisticated Politely accept opposing views Put an end to permanently Place to watch films Present in detail and make clear Prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain Power required for doing work Person playing very minor part in film Pilotless flying device – buzzer not working? Pre-wedding social gathering, generally women only Pavement edging Poster spit (anag) – most bad-tempered and awkward to deal with Player of stringed instrument Put this on for a cuppa Permanent fastener (generally metal) used to join materials – enthral Pouched mammal, e.g. kangaroo Person or item supposed to bring good luck Precautionary measure in the event of a fall Playground game involving numbered squares Polynesian people – hat isn’t AI (anag) Performed by machine not person Prejudiced towards the young? Pituitary, sebaceous or lymph Pincered stinger Person using another’s services Pancakes served with caviar and sour cream Practical or oral? Pugilist’s underwear? Piece of cheap jewellery Programme where celebrities interviewed Paid solver Person distributing charity money (historical) Person collecting public opinion data Place together, for comparison Prehistoric large flat stone supported by vertical stones Primrose relative – dashing hero Pleasingly rhythmical Pen smudge Plot in the churchyard Puppet or pet Person who did the job before Parts of society Passed on (information) Party, wedding or town Prized pieces of information Particular example Precise quality Paintings by Mark Rothko or Jackson Pollock Pinkerton or Columbo Practically involved Parker or Wordsworth? Postpone (plans) People who work and play together Polite chitchat Protect with a vaccine Pigment derived from cuttlefish Pluck a guitar string Pepper or pop? Pedestrian route beneath a road or railway Pay it out of respect Places where speculation is widespread? Pleased (informally) Prize draw Promise (to do something) Prawn or penguin? Pot cover – Scot aye (anag) Pattern of concentric circles Party – whack Place to avoid high levies Promote – stopper Pertaining to the basic units of life Poisonous plant (the scourge of farmyard birds?) Practising self-denial Person expelled from a country Painter known for pictures of dancers Palindromic word for ‘look’ Polymer composed of nucleotides Post on X Piece of e.g. chicken or information Possessor of a non-hereditary title Period preceding an event Practitioner of music or sport Pond bug Patient – lag Punch and Judy performance? Precious stone – American hummingbird Pun or double entendre Pour in order to separate sediment Pond life – zero Peeper in head Purchasing of a company Period of the French Revolution with many executions Peas (anag) Pope’s tenure Print-off of data etc Packed pasta Plunging chair for offenders Person colouring clothes Pickled dish from Germany Put your legs on either side of Poems (anag) Pen it (anag) Pair on the bridge? Person looking after holy objects – stains car (anag) Putter’s nerves Paper – spectator Punishment for sinners Port in Pakistan Policy U-turns Publicise – draft legislation Possessing guile Pinched – and scratched Pudding – not sweet Poor-quality – underwear Poker player’s revealing habit Portable chiller Preside at a ceremony Poor-quality items Planet or prize? Pertaining to the flesh Pertaining to a major religion Patissier’s decoration Partner of mightily? Phosphorescent glow Prolific Italian composer Pole – box Perform tricks Pompous so-and-so Product designed to benefit from the success of another Producer of red or white? Procession of vehicles carrying politicians, e.g. Pen manufacturer – hovercraft operator Pursues – let sleeping ones lie Piano-builder Henry Engelhard Poled illumination source Pogues pal MacColl, e.g. Peeper cosmetic PC Mole (anag.) Periodic pecuniary allowance Process ending in baldness? Painter of many a ballet dancer Pride, gin or Eye Place for a play or an op Person who has charge of receiving and paying of money Pancake prerequisite Pups – discarded wrappers? Put out there again Platform for a throne, perhaps Plastic-covered 9ac Palindromic term for a middle-class tale Pause – niche Pastry filled with very sweet, sticky foodstuff Premier League? Polychromatic Pale (anag.) Post held by Cooper, May, Straw, Morrison Prestige – position Provides financial backing Puff – a bit of tobacco Plausible, but unsound, argument Polish city on the Baltic Sea Process by which someone is forced to move out Plum title in Cluedo Pungent source of stimulation Peppery vegetable Petty – and annoying Pudding dish Puppy or potty? Prickly seed pod Protected from the weather Poky room Push forcibly Polished and courteous behaviour Practical rather than theoretical Person who creates or improves e.g. software Plan for a journey President of Venezuela 1999-2013 Pampered pooch Piece of music for eight voices / instruments Plant yielding pulses Potion conferring immortality Period of greatest success or popularity Put one’s foot in it? Pilots may be forced to make them Polite way(s) to behave Pebbles on the beach Pedals (anag) – no longer effective Prickly pear, perhaps Person who started it Play it to be helpful Province on Canada’s eastern seaboard Place for fire drill? Pope’s official residence Powerful individual Panko in Japanese cooking Percussion instrument, often played in pairs Pieces ‘of’ it were silver Photographer’s prop? Place wagers Person or thing displaying impressive and stylish excellence Practice prior to performance Preliminary paintwork Painter such as Rossetti Predatory swimmer with a name combining those of two fish Performer of a folk art with e.g. handkerchiefs and sticks Pitch one’s tent