| Plays over | 10 |
| Plays over and over | 19 |
| Plays parent to | 15 |
| Plays pat-a-cake | 16 |
| Plays peacemaker for | 20 |
| Plays Pebble Beach | 18 |
| Plays poker? | 12 |
| Plays poltergeist | 17 |
| Plays purchased in India? | 25 |
| Plays quoits | 12 |
| Plays resulting in yardage losses | 33 |
| Plays reveille | 14 |
| Plays safe on a bet | 19 |
| Plays Simon Says | 16 |
| Plays Simon says with | 21 |
| Plays Super Bowl Squares | 24 |
| Plays Super Bowl Squares, say | 29 |
| Plays swing music | 17 |
| Plays tenpins | 13 |
| Plays that end innings | 22 |
| Plays the ace | 13 |
| Plays the backdoor trumpet | 26 |
| Plays the bagpipes | 18 |
| Plays the banjo | 15 |
| Plays the banjo, e.g. | 21 |
| Plays the banjo, like someone "in the kitchen with Dinah" | 67 |
| Plays the class clown | 21 |
| Plays the coda | 14 |
| Plays the diaskeuast | 20 |
| Plays the Doral | 15 |
| Plays the first card | 20 |
| Plays the flute | 15 |
| Plays the fool | 14 |
| Plays the Good Samaritan | 24 |
| Plays the guitar, in a way | 26 |
| Plays the ham | 13 |
| Plays the harpy | 15 |
| Plays the henchman | 18 |
| Plays the hero | 14 |
| Plays the horses | 16 |
| Plays the innocent one | 22 |
| Plays the killjoy | 17 |
| Plays the last note | 19 |
| Plays the lead | 14 |
| Plays the lead role | 19 |
| Plays the lottery | 17 |
| Plays the market | 16 |
| Plays the mediator | 18 |
| Plays the muse | 14 |
| Plays the opening of ''Rhapsody in Blue'' | 57 |
| Plays the paraclete | 19 |
| Plays the part | 14 |
| Plays the part of | 17 |
| Plays the piccolo, say | 22 |
| Plays the pompous precisionist | 30 |
| Plays the ponies | 16 |
| Plays the ponies, e.g. | 22 |
| Plays the raconteur | 19 |
| Plays the role | 14 |
| Plays the role of | 17 |
| Plays the siren | 15 |
| Plays the stoolie | 17 |
| Plays the sycophant | 19 |
| Plays the temptress | 19 |
| Plays the toady, perhaps | 24 |
| Plays the ukulele | 17 |
| Plays the vamp | 14 |
| Plays the villain | 17 |
| Plays the wag well | 18 |
| Plays the wrong suit | 20 |
| Plays the zither | 16 |
| Plays to the balcony | 20 |
| Plays to the crowd | 18 |
| Plays tricks | 12 |
| Plays tug of war | 16 |
| Plays two notes simultaneously | 30 |
| Plays unfairly | 14 |
| Plays up | 8 |
| Plays usually involving the SS | 30 |
| Plays with | 10 |
| Plays with a combo | 18 |
| Plays with a marked deck, say | 29 |
| Plays with blocks? | 18 |
| Plays with crayons | 18 |
| Plays with darts? | 17 |
| Plays with Lego blocks | 22 |
| Plays with masks | 16 |
| Plays with one's fingers | 28 |
| Plays with one's thumbs, in a way | 37 |
| Plays with others, for instance | 31 |
| Plays with something, as a kitten might | 39 |
| Plays with, as a toy mouse | 26 |
| Plays without a break | 21 |
| Plays without intermissions | 27 |
| Plays without rehearsing | 24 |
| Plays, as a horse | 17 |
| Plays, as a sub | 15 |
| Plays, as at a wedding | 22 |
| Plays, as records | 17 |
| Plays, as to the crowd | 22 |