| "Praise Citizens United! Praise Citizens United!"? | 60 |
| "Poverty is the mother of ___": Marcus Aurelius | 57 |
| "Pound the pavement" or "break the ice" | 59 |
| "Postcards from the ___" (Meryl Streep film) | 54 |
| "Positive Thinking" proponent Norman Vincent | 54 |
| "Positive thinking" advocate Norman Vincent __ | 56 |
| "Positive thinking" advocate Norman Vincent | 53 |
| "Portrait of a Man in a Turban" painter Jan van ___ | 61 |
| "Portia is Brutus' __, not his wife": Shak. | 57 |
| "Porte ___ Lilas" (Oscar-nominated 1957 film) | 55 |
| "Pore ___ Is Daid" ("Oklahoma!" song) | 57 |
| "Pore Jud Is ___..." ("Oklahoma!" song) | 59 |
| "Pore Jud Is ___" (Rodgers and Hammerstein song) | 58 |
| "Popsicle," in "Fifty Shades of Grey," for one | 66 |
| "Pop ___" (UK show that started a worldwide craze) | 60 |
| "Poor venomous fool," in "Antony and Cleopatra" | 67 |
| "Poodle ___" ("Weird Al" Yankovic album) | 60 |
| "Politics is the ___ of the imagination": Ian McEwan | 62 |
| "Politics is the art of the possible" source | 54 |
| "Political will is a renewable resource" speaker | 58 |
| "Polished man of the world" in an 1873 novel | 54 |
| "Poetry is ___ of joy and pain and wonder" (Kahlil Gibran) | 68 |
| "Poetic" or "Prose" mythological work | 57 |
| "Poet and Saint! . . . The ___ sacred names": Cowley | 62 |
| "Poems of Passion" writer ___ Wheeler Wilcox | 54 |
| "Pleasingly plump," according to Merriam-Webster | 58 |
| "Pleased ___ Me" (1987 album by the Replacements) | 59 |
| "Please, can I stay up another hour?" and the like | 60 |
| "Please redeem before the expiration date"? | 53 |
| "Please pay attention to me, madam," Ã la Mike Hammer | 66 |
| "Please don't play another march by that guy!"? | 61 |
| "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" writer Jean | 56 |
| "Please consider playing the wheel again"? | 52 |
| "Please believe that it's true, ___, I love you" Styx | 67 |
| "Please believe that it's true, ___ I love you" Styx | 66 |
| "Please believe that it's true ___, I love you" Styx | 66 |
| "Please be __ and ...": polite request words | 54 |
| "Please answer ___ no" (litigator's request) | 58 |
| "Playing under the ___ and dreaming" (DMB) | 52 |
| "Play" button's alternate function, often | 55 |
| "Play this note with a sudden accent," in sheet music abbr. | 69 |
| "Platoon" Oscar nominee for Best Supporting Actor | 59 |
| "Planet of the Apes" planet [spoiler alert!] | 54 |
| "Plain Language From Truthful James" writer | 53 |
| "Plain as ___ in a man's face": Rabelais | 54 |
| "Plaid" and "spunk" derive from it | 54 |
| "Plac'd far ___ the melancholy main": Thomson | 59 |
| "Pity is for the living, ___ is for the dead": Twain | 62 |
| "Pity is for the living, ___ is for the dead": Mark Twain | 67 |
| "Pisces ___" (1994 Smashing Pumpkins album) | 53 |
| "Pirates of the Caribbean" actress Knightley | 54 |
| "Pirate Jenny" musical, with "The" | 54 |
| "Pinky Dinky ___" (animated show on Noggin) | 53 |
| "Pinball Wizard" band, with "the" | 53 |
| "Pin the Tail on the ___" (Naughty By Nature) | 55 |
| "Pierrot le ___" (1965 Jean-Luc Godard film) | 54 |
| "Picasso at the ___ Agile" (Steve Martin play) | 56 |
| "Picasso at the Lapin ___" (Steve Martin play) | 56 |
| "Piano Concerto for the Left Hand" composer | 53 |
| "Phooey on that prehistorically set comic strip!" | 59 |
| "Philosophy will clip an angel's wings" writer | 60 |
| "Philadelphia" or "Chicago," e.g. | 53 |
| "Phantom of the Opera"'s Carlotta, e.g. | 53 |
| "Phantastiche Gebete" and "Enak's Tears" | 64 |
| "Personally, I think," in Internet shorthand | 54 |
| "Personal Witness: Israel Through My Eyes" author | 59 |
| "Perseus With the Head of Medusa" sculptor | 52 |
| "Pericles, Prince of ___" (Shakespeare play) | 54 |
| "Perhaps this is the right place for Ms. Neuwirth"? | 61 |
| "Percy Jackson & The Olympians" actor Pierce | 58 |
| "Per ardua ad ___" (Royal Air Force motto) | 52 |
| "People Will Say We're in Love" musical | 53 |
| "People can you hear it? Love is in the ___" Allmans lyric | 68 |
| "Penny Lane," not "Strawberry Fields Forever" | 65 |
| "Pearls Before ___" (Stephan Pastis comic) | 52 |
| "Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8th" coauthor Gingrich | 67 |
| "Peanuts" or "Pearls Before Swine" | 54 |
| "Peanuts" figure ... or some fabulous fall soup? | 58 |
| "Peanuts" character with naturally curly hair | 55 |
| "Peanuts" character who wears saddle shoes | 52 |
| "Peanuts" character who offers psychiatric help for 5¢ | 67 |
| "Peanuts" before its name change, "___ Folks" | 65 |
| "Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down" ___ and the Whale | 62 |
| "Peace ___ time" (Neville Chamberlain quote) | 54 |
| "Paysage de ___" (Gustave Courbet painting) | 53 |
| "Payable on Death" Christian nu-metal band | 52 |
| "Pay in cash and your second surgery is half-price"? | 62 |
| "Paw" on "The Beverly Hillbillies" | 54 |
| "Paul Prescott's Charge" author Horatio | 53 |
| "Pathétique" or "Appassionata" | 53 |
| "Pathétique" and "Appassionata" | 54 |
| "Pat-___" (classic French Christmas carol) | 52 |
| "Pasted" or "wasted," for "drunk" | 63 |
| "Party For Your Right To Fight" band, in a txt msg? | 61 |
| "Parties must ever exist in __ country": Edmund Burke | 63 |
| "Parks and ___" (Amy Poehler show, casually) | 54 |
| "Parks and Recreation" libertarian Swanson | 52 |
| "Parigi, ocara," in "La Traviata" | 53 |
| "Pardon My ___" (Abbott and Costello film) | 52 |
| "Pardon me, would you have any ___ Poupon?" | 53 |