| Period following homework completion, perhaps | 45 |
| Period following Rome's fall | 32 |
| Period following Stone and Bronze | 33 |
| Period fondly remembered now | 28 |
| Period for diversion | 20 |
| Period for historians | 21 |
| Period for Marie Antoinette's doom | 38 |
| Period for preparation | 22 |
| Period for R&R | 18 |
| Period forged in history books? | 31 |
| Period free from punishment | 27 |
| Period from 1929-1941 | 21 |
| Period from B.C. to TV | 22 |
| Period from opening day to the playoffs | 39 |
| Period from request to delivery | 31 |
| Period frozen in time? | 22 |
| Period immediately before Easter | 32 |
| Period in a historian's book | 32 |
| Period in a Jewish year | 23 |
| Period in a sonnet | 18 |
| Period in civilization | 22 |
| Period in Cong. | 15 |
| Period in English literature | 28 |
| Period in French history | 24 |
| Period in history | 17 |
| Period in human development | 27 |
| Period in human history | 23 |
| Period in India's history | 29 |
| Period in Indian history | 24 |
| Period in office | 16 |
| Period in power | 15 |
| Period in sch. | 14 |
| Period in school just before graduation | 39 |
| Period in the earth's history | 33 |
| Period in the life of Tom Brown | 31 |
| Period in the pen, to a con | 27 |
| Period in the wire | 18 |
| Period in which the oboe d'amour was common | 47 |
| Period in which we live | 23 |
| Period just before | 18 |
| Period just before dark | 23 |
| Period like a millennium | 24 |
| Period marked by copper use | 27 |
| Period marked by distinctive character | 38 |
| Period marked by increased smelting | 35 |
| Period named for an earth goddess | 33 |
| Period named for an element | 27 |
| Period of 365 dÃas | 21 |
| Period of 40 weekdays | 21 |
| Period of a renter's agreement | 34 |
| Period of a renter's lease | 30 |
| Period of abstinence | 20 |
| Period of advancing glaciers | 28 |
| Period of adversity | 19 |
| Period of antiquity | 19 |
| Period of bacchanalia? | 22 |
| Period of calm | 14 |
| Period of contemplation | 23 |
| Period of contract | 18 |
| Period of crisis | 16 |
| Period of darkening | 19 |
| Period of darkness | 18 |
| Period of decline | 17 |
| Period of decreased income at ski resorts, e.g. | 47 |
| Period of delay | 15 |
| Period of deprivation | 21 |
| Period of development | 21 |
| Period of diminished returns for a stoner? | 42 |
| Period of distinction | 21 |
| Period of douze mois | 20 |
| Period of duty | 14 |
| Period of economic growth | 25 |
| Period of effectiveness | 23 |
| Period of expansion | 19 |
| Period of fasting | 17 |
| Period of fasting ended by Eid al-Fitr | 38 |
| Period of financial weakness | 28 |
| Period of focusing on oneself | 29 |
| Period of frigid temperatures | 29 |
| Period of future bliss | 22 |
| Period of George W. Bush's presidency | 41 |
| Period of gradual decline | 25 |
| Period of great glaciation | 26 |
| Period of great growth | 22 |
| Period of great prosperity | 26 |
| Period of greatest success | 26 |
| Period of growth | 16 |
| Period of high artistic development | 35 |
| Period of history | 17 |
| Period of human benightedness | 29 |
| Period of human history that began about 3,000 years ago | 56 |
| Period of ignorance | 19 |
| Period of immaturity | 20 |
| Period of imminent danger | 25 |
| Period of inactivity | 20 |
| Period of increased births | 26 |
| Period of indulgence | 20 |
| Period of instability, perhaps | 30 |
| Period of investor confidence | 29 |
| Period of Lent, e.g. | 20 |