| Penultimate round | 17 |
| Penultimate song on "Abbey Road" (ironically) | 55 |
| Penultimate state | 17 |
| Penultimate state quarter honoree | 33 |
| Penultimate stop on Amtrak's Downeaster out of Boston | 57 |
| Penultimate word in "Gone With the Wind" | 50 |
| Penultimate word in a countdown | 31 |
| Penultimate word in a fairy tale | 32 |
| Penultimate word in a Hemingway title | 37 |
| Penultimate word in a Henny Youngman one-liner | 46 |
| Penultimate word in fairy tales | 31 |
| Penultimate word of a palindrome | 32 |
| Penultimate word of many fairy tales | 36 |
| Penultimate word of the "This is your brain on drugs" ad | 66 |
| Penultimate word of Warner Bros. cartoons | 41 |
| Penultimate word of Warner Brothers cartoons | 44 |
| Penultimate year before the Common Era | 38 |
| Penultimate-round game | 22 |
| Penults, sportswise | 19 |
| Penumbra | 8 |
| Penumbras | 9 |
| Penurious | 9 |
| Penury | 6 |
| Penzance characters in an operetta | 34 |
| Penzance denizen | 16 |
| Penzance group | 14 |
| Penzance natives? | 17 |
| Penzance people | 15 |
| Penzance persona | 16 |
| Penzance privies | 16 |
| Peon | 4 |
| Peon at work | 12 |
| Peon cousins | 12 |
| Peon of yore | 12 |
| Peon or serf | 12 |
| Peon's dinero | 17 |
| Peon's lot | 14 |
| Peon's mite | 15 |
| Peon's partnership dream? | 29 |
| Peon's pay, perhaps | 23 |
| Peon's pittance | 19 |
| Peon's ploughed land | 24 |
| Peon's predecessor | 22 |
| Peons | 5 |
| Peons in Eurasia? | 17 |
| Peons' pay, perhaps | 23 |
| Peony part | 10 |
| Peony parts | 11 |
| Peony pollinator | 16 |
| Peony? | 6 |
| People | 6 |
| People in general | 18 |
| People Time and Money | 28 |
| People a Frenchman may address, after "mes" | 53 |
| People acting badly? | 20 |
| People afraid of playing the stock market? | 42 |
| People after whom things are named | 34 |
| People all up in your business | 30 |
| People along the old Iron Curtain | 33 |
| People and language in Clint Eastwood's "Gran Torino" | 67 |
| People and Money, e.g. | 22 |
| People and verbs have them | 26 |
| People apart | 12 |
| People are always searching for them | 36 |
| People are closely watched in them: Abbr. | 41 |
| People are dying to get there | 29 |
| People are picky about this | 27 |
| People aren't usually drawn to this | 39 |
| People asked to parties | 23 |
| People assume different roles for it | 36 |
| People at a special showing | 27 |
| People at People, for short | 27 |
| People at the head of the class, perhaps | 40 |
| People at the supermarket counter? | 34 |
| People at the U. N. | 19 |
| People award (People Magazine) | 30 |
| People before rehab | 19 |
| People behind the Times | 23 |
| People bend over backward for it | 32 |
| People bend over backwards for it | 33 |
| People between 12 and 20 | 24 |
| People born before Virgos | 25 |
| People born in July and August | 30 |
| People born in the early 1960s | 30 |
| People born July 23–Aug. 22 | 34 |
| People born on February 29, colloquially | 40 |
| People born on Sept. 29, e.g. | 29 |
| People bringing things about | 28 |
| People can get quite high on it | 31 |
| People chosen to get plenty of vitamin A? | 41 |
| People classified as "homo groovius" by humor website Uncyclopedia | 76 |
| People concerned with feet | 26 |
| People confused by jargon | 25 |
| People conquered by the Spanish | 31 |
| People dance when these get beat | 32 |
| People dealing with clods? | 26 |
| People dependent on barley? | 27 |
| People described by Josephus | 28 |
| People detected by polygraphs | 29 |
| People dig it | 13 |