| Piece of furniture with a ton of stuffed animals (in my house, at least) | 72 |
| Piece of usually antiquated technology that is passed onto one's parents | 76 |
| Pieces of pasteboard with "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" printed on them? | 81 |
| Pink Floyd "The ___ Song" off "Soundtrack From the Film More" | 81 |
| Pink Floyd hit with the lyric "Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash" | 89 |
| Pioneering black comedian (whose signature line was "Oh, yeah!"), ___ Rogers | 86 |
| Pirate Davis who is the first MLB player to hit grand slams for two different teams in the month of April | 105 |
| Pirate whose treasure is recovered in Poe's "The Gold-Bug" | 72 |
| Pitcher Doug with whom Tommy Lasorda had an infamous—and recorded--on-the-mound argument in 1977 | 100 |
| Pitcher Johnny who completes the old rhyme, "Spahn and ___ and pray for rain" | 87 |
| Pitcher Luis whose 1.60 ERA in 1968 is the lowest single-season mark in the American League since 1919 | 102 |
| Pitcher Maglie who in 1950 had baseball's highest winning percentage (.818) | 79 |
| Pitcher Mike who got the win in the first and last games of the 2000 World Series | 81 |
| Pitcher nicknamed "The Tornado" who threw no-hitters in 1996 and 2001 | 79 |
| Pitcher with a 168-mph fastball dreamed up by George Plimpton for the 1985 April Fools' Day issue of Sports Illustrated | 123 |
| Pithy sayings (four well-known ones containing the circled word are the keys to unlocking this puzzle's theme) | 114 |
| Place that it wouldn't kill you to go one of these Fridays, or maybe you think you're too important for G-d now? | 120 |
| Place to "get yourself clean" and "have a good meal" | 72 |
| Place to live (different ones are hidden in this puzzle's four longest answers) | 83 |
| Place where "You can get yourself clean, you can have a good meal" | 76 |
| Place where "You can get yourself clean, you can have a good meal" in song | 84 |
| Place where the starts of this puzzle's four longest answers result in a penalty | 84 |
| Place where you'll hear a bum say "Remember me on the way out" | 76 |
| Place where you're advised "Don't fall in love," in song | 74 |
| Place with millions of inhabitants at the time of its "discovery" | 75 |
| Placekicker Jim who scored 10 points in the Jets' Super Bowl III victory | 76 |
| Placekicker Lawrence whose 47-yard overtime field goal sent the Giants to Super Bowl XLII | 89 |
| Plain whose novel "Heartwood" was published posthumously in 2011 | 74 |
| Plains Native American tribe that becomes a state if you drop the first letter | 78 |
| Plant known as "seer's sage" because of its hallucinatory effect | 78 |
| Play king whose first line is "Attend the lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester" | 93 |
| Play whose title character won't eat anything unless it's fried? | 72 |
| Player behind Bonds, Henderson, Ruth, Williams, Morgan, Yastrzemski, and Mantle on the all-time leader list for walks | 117 |
| Player honored with Campanella, Greenberg, and Mantle on "Baseball Sluggers" postage stamps | 101 |
| Player who scored the tying run in the bottom of the ninth of Game 7 of the 1997 World Series | 93 |
| Player who tried to catch the ball that Cubs fan Steve Bartman reached for in the 8th inning of Game 6 of the 2003 NLCS | 119 |
| Players on the game show "Bumper Stumpers" had to figure out what they meant | 86 |
| PLAYGIRL, soft-hearted, huggable. Red hair, brown eyes, great smile. Loves kids ... | 83 |
| Playground equipment that'll move if you're really, really patient? | 75 |
| Playoff series finale ... or an apt title for this puzzle considering the number and length of its theme entries | 112 |
| Playwright Connelly who won a Pulitzer for "The Green Pastures" | 73 |
| Playwright Edward who said "Creativity is magic ... don't examine it too closely" | 95 |
| Playwright who inspired "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" | 82 |
| Playwright who wrote "What is originality? Undetected plagiarism" | 75 |
| Playwright who wrote the collection of essays "Stretching My Mind" | 76 |
| Playwright whose "Liliom" was the basis for "Carousel" | 74 |
| Poe called her "the most lovely dead / That ever died so young!" | 74 |
| Poe poem that ends "From grief and groan to a golden throne beside the King of Heaven" | 96 |
| Poe poem with the lines "Lo, in yon brilliant window-niche / How statue-like I see thee stand" | 104 |
| Poe poem with the lines "thy beauty is to me / Like those Nicean barks of yore" | 89 |
| Poem featuring the line “‘Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all” | 106 |
| Poem featuring the line “Now when the dead man come to life beheld / His wife his wife no more” | 103 |
| Poem featuring the line “O, rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more” | 87 |
| Poem featuring the line “Sunset and evening star / And one clear call for me!” | 86 |
| Poem patterned like / the one featured in this clue / [padding out the rest] | 76 |
| Poem with the line, "Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December" | 87 |
| Poem with the lines "Nobody'll dare / Say to me, / 'Eat in the kitchen'" | 94 |
| Poem with the lines "They send me to eat in the kitchen / When the company comes" | 91 |
| Poet giving a reading of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" at the saloon? | 83 |
| Poet who originated the phrase "truth is stranger than fiction" | 73 |
| Poet who wrote "An' the Gobble-uns 'at gits you / Ef you / Don't / Watch / Out!" | 102 |
| Poet who wrote "At night there is no such thing as an ugly woman" | 75 |
| Poet who wrote "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter" | 82 |
| Poet who wrote "I have executed a memorial longer lasting than bronze" | 80 |
| Poet who wrote "In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo" | 86 |
| Poet who wrote "The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on" | 79 |
| Poet who wrote "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper" | 89 |
| Poet who wrote, about children, "And if they are popular / The phone they monopular" | 94 |
| Poet who's the subject of Tom Stoppard's "The Invention of Love" | 82 |
| Poet whose last words were "Of course [God] will forgive me; that's his business" | 95 |
| Poker occasions "you got to know," according to a Kenny Rogers song | 77 |
| Political cartoonist called "our best recruiting sergeant" by Lincoln | 79 |
| Political comedian with the 1973 album "Sing a Song of Watergate" | 75 |
| Political family that probably shouldn't go to their dad for sex advice | 75 |
| Political leader who patented a system to alter the buoyancy of steamboats | 74 |
| Politican who said "We have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt" | 84 |
| Politician who appeared as himself on NBC's "Parks and Recreation" | 80 |
| Politician who had a voice that "could boil the fat off a taxicab driver's neck," according to Norman Mailer | 122 |
| Politician who read "Green Eggs and Ham" during a 21-hour filibuster | 78 |
| Politician who said "Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children." | 104 |
| Politician who said "We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it" | 90 |
| Politician who wrote "The Gift of Rest: Rediscovering the Beauty of the Sabbath" | 90 |
| Politician who's done cameos on "Seinfeld" and "Law & Order" | 88 |
| Politico who had a bit part in Altman's "The Long Goodbye" | 72 |
| Polygonal numerical array named for mathematician Blaise, in which each number is the sum of the nearest two in the row aboveit | 127 |
| Poor crossword construction technique that requires too much of the solver | 74 |
| Pop group whose first Top 40 album was, appropriately, "Arrival" | 74 |
| Pop punk band with the 2002 triple-platinum album "The Young and the Hopeless" | 88 |
| Pop singer who appeared in the movie "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" | 90 |
| Pop star releasing her first Spanish language record this year, familiarly | 74 |
| Pop star who said "The cool thing about being famous is traveling.I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff." | 146 |
| Pop trio with the 1964 hit "Bread and Butter," with "the" | 77 |
| Pope called the "Lightning Pope" because he died 27 days after his election | 85 |
| Pope John XXIII encyclical "Pacem in ___" ("Peace on Earth") | 80 |
| Pope who declared "I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition" | 81 |
| Popular 1980s arcade game where one had to fence off a supermajority of the screen | 82 |
| Popular and bad-ass name for the Helix Nebula, which looks a little like Sauron | 79 |
| Popular gambling tourist spot in China that was part of Portugal until 1999 | 75 |
| Popular picture fonts that come standard on Apple computers (named after a German type designer) | 96 |
| Popular version of a design principle acronym spelled out by the starts of this puzzle's four longest answers | 113 |