Letter P
Part 6 of our Christmas Carol
Part of BFF
Part of TCBY
Pete from the Beatles
Pete, the Beatles' drummer before Starr
Place higher than
Pre-Starr Beatle
Prize-winning
___ Picture (Oscars category)
pre eminent
prestigious
Put spangles on.
Pwned
Part of a favorable impression?
Part of makeing a favorable impression?
Punter's posture
Put one's ___.
Put this to impress people
Principal pal
Put into brisk action.
Patty Duke movie of 1989
Perfect prairies?
Person giving someone a ring
Prize for the ultimate sulk?
Playoff format
Prize coveted by competitive trees?
Prime choice
Present with on
Present as a gift
Present, as a prize
Present, as an award
proffer
Presented a present
Presented, as an honor, with "upon"
Presents as a gift
Presents, as an honor
Presents.
Preferred way of doing things
Professional signoff
Play the dupe
"Personal" records
"Personal" top performances
"Personal" top scores
Personal ___ (runners' top performances)
Personal highs
Part of a certain USA Today list
Popular book
Publisher's goal
Plan most likely to succeed
Phoenix-based hotel chain (and see circles)
Place to stay, for awhile
Part 4 of message
Pari-mutuel item.
Pari-mutuel transaction
Parlay
Parlay or Round Robin.
Parlay, e.g.
Parlayed
Parlor transaction
Patronize Luxor
Patronize a bookie
Perfecta or trifecta
Perfecta, e.g.
Perfecta, for one
Pick a pony
Pick a spread, say
Pimlico transaction
Place a wager
Place at risk
Place stakes
Play Megabucks
Play a trifecta
Play faro.
Play favorites, perhaps
Play favorites?
Play the Ponies Place to play the (abbr.)
Play the daily double
Play the daily double, e.g.
Play the horses
Play the lottery
Play the nags
Play the numbers
Play the odds
Play the perfecta
Play the point spread
Play the point spread, e.g.
Play the ponies
Play the ponies, say
Play the slots
Play the slots, e.g.
Plunge at Saratoga.
Poker draw follow-up, often
Poker table action
Punt
Push in some chips
Put at risk
Put bucks on the Bucks, say
Put bucks on the Bulls, say
Put chips down
Put chips in a pot
Put chips on
Put coins in slots
Put dough on a horse?
Put money (on)
Put money down
Put money on it
Put money on the line
Put on black, say
Put some money down
Put some money towards Magic, say
Put something on
Put something on the line
Put two on the nose
Part of a fraternity insignia.
Part of a fraternity name.
Passive, as a personality
Phase constant, in physics
Phi Kappa ___
Phi follower
Phi follower on a key
Phi-Kappa connector
Phi-Kappa link
Phi-Kappa middle
Plato's "b"
Platonic character
Portfolio measure
Possibly glitchy software release
Pre-launch test
Pre-release app status
Pre-release software
Pre-release software version
Pre-release stage
Pre-release version
Precedes gamma
Preliminary app
Preliminary software version
Prerelease app version
Prerelease phase
Prerelease, in Silicon Valley
Prototype for playing with
Prototype version
Prototype-in-progress
___ particle (electron or positron emitted by radioactive decay)
___ particle (electron)
preliminary or testing stage of a software or hardware product
*Process by which a neutron might become a proton
*Process that creates an antineutrino, or what the starred answers' starts represent?
Process by which an element's atomic number may be reduced, and a hint to this puzzle's theme
Process by which neutrinos are produced
Process that may transform a neutron into a proton
Put a label on
Prepare to fish, in Greece?
Plant where videotapes were made admitting a cosmetician?
President of Venezuela.
Product of certain radioactive decay
Potassium-40 product
Product of a radioactive substance.
Post-alpha bits?
Pre-final software programs
Pre-launch codes?
Pre-release software programs
Prefinal versions
Preliminary versions of computer programs
Preproduction test models
Prerelease versions
Product prototypes
Programs in testing
Prominent stars in constellations
*Pre-release programs
Person looking for software bugs
Pre-marketing trials
Prerelease software trials
Program trials
PARTICLE accelerator (nuclear physics)
Prizes that Beyoncé has the most of, 31
People you gamble with?
Phi __ (honor society member)
Phi __ (honor-society member)
PEPPER species
PIPER betel leaf chewed with areca-nut parings
Palm nut
Palm or nut
Palm whose leaves can get you high
Palm with chewable nuts
Palm with nuts mentioned in the "South Pacific" song "Bloody Mary"
Pepper whose leaves are chewed
Plant related to pepper
Plant with leaves chewed as a stimulant
___ palm (tree also known as the pinang)
plant Pepper (abbr.)
Pinang
Palms with orange fruits
Persona non grata
Pet peeve
Piano-playing March sister
Piano-playing sister in "Little Women"
Playwright Henley
Playwright Henley crew
Pulitzer playwright Henley
Palestine Ancient city of
__ Park, Pennsylvania
place of worship Biblical
Phrase on a party invitation
Playwright Henley et al.
Preceders of gimels
Prefix for page and ink
Pethuel (Joel)
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1972 - 1984
"Put your money where your mouth is"
Politician O'Rourke
Politico O'Rourke
Pick to win
Pick to win at the track
Place a wager towards
Prefer, at a racetrack
Plant also called germander
Purple-flowering plant
Pull no punches
Pledge to tie the knot with
Promise in marriage
Promise to wed
Promise, as in marriage
Promise, in a way
Pledged to be married
Promise to marry a cute marsupial? [painter]
Promises to wed
"Place your ___"
PICKS
Pari-mutual transactions
Pari-mutuel entries
Pari-mutuel items.
Pari-mutuel transactions
Parlays
Parlor action
Perfectas and trifectas
Perfectas, e.g.
Pit transactions
Placed things
Placements at Pimlico
Places a wager
Places at stake
Plays Super Bowl Squares
Plays Super Bowl Squares, say
Plays favorites, perhaps
Plays for money.
Plays in Vegas, maybe
Plays the horses
Plays the lottery
Plays the numbers
Plays the odds
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