| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | INITIALS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $800: Slid into being Russia's P.M. from 2012-2020:
D.M. Dmitry Medvedev |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | GOOD "P.R." $1200: It has the domain extension
.pr Puerto Rico |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | "P" IS FOR POETRY $400: Of this figure, Byron wrote, "titan...the rock, the vulture, and the chain, all that the proud can feel of pain" Prometheus |
| #20, aired 2023-05-24 | "P" IS FOR POETRY $800: Established in 1881, this alliterative literary award is named for Russia's preeminent poet the Pushkin Prize |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | RICE PUDDING $2000: In 2008, Jens Stoltenberg, P.M. of this country, placed rice as the inaugural deposit in the Svalbard Seed Vault Norway |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | CHILLIN' IN THE R.I.P. LOUNGE $600: It would have been quite appropriate to have draped a flag over her coffin after she passed in Philadelphia on Jan. 30, 1836 Betsy Ross |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | Ps OUT! $400: Delete the P from a word meaning cost & you'll get this non-costly grain rice (from price) |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | FITS & STARTS $800: A green flag at 12:47 P.M. on May 30 signaled the start of the 2021 running of this race the Indianapolis 500 |
| #8531, aired 2021-12-13 | LATIN AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY $5,400 (Daily Double): The 80-mile-wide Mona Passage separates the Dominican Republic from this island Puerto Rico |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | "P" FOR SCIENCE $400: A very old vertebrate, the Greenland shark takes nearly 150 years to reach this; for humans, it's around age 10 or 11 puberty |
| #8300, aired 2020-12-11 | "A" "P" HISTORY $2,000 (Daily Double): One of Puerto Rico's largest cities is named in honor of a descendant of this Spanish explorer Ponce de León |
| #8236, aired 2020-09-14 | GOOD "P.R." $1200: Iggy Pop & Joey Ramone have both been called "the father of" this punk rock |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | STARTS & ENDS WITH "P" $800: On a Vegas-set reality series, Rick Harrison buys, sells & appraises items of historical value in this kind of establishment a pawn shop |
| #7912, aired 2019-01-22 | RICK ROLES $1000: Back on '80s TV, Larry Manetti was Rick Wright, a sidekick of this P.I. played by Tom Selleck Magnum |
| #7814, aired 2018-07-26 | THIS CATEGORY IS "P.G." $2000: Now a museum, the Palazzo Venier Dei Leoni in Venice houses the art collection of this American heiress Peggy Guggenheim |
| #7805, aired 2018-07-13 | CROSSWORD CLUES "P" $800: Rice field
(5) paddy |
| #7797, aired 2018-07-03 | THE ROBBER BARONS $1200: Rich enough to be almost a one-man central bank, he got his middle initial P. from the Pierponts, who helped found Yale (J.P.) Morgan |
| #7773, aired 2018-05-30 | MY OLD "L.P."s $800: Figuratively, it's a place to start a project or career; literally, it's where a Saturn V rose from a launching pad |
| #7759, aired 2018-05-10 | FAST COMPANY $2000: (Jay Leno presents the clue.) Back around World War I when you wanted to go fast, you put a big aircraft engine in a lightweight car; my 1915 Hispano-Souza uses the same kind of aircraft V8 as the S.P.A.D. flown by this race-car driver & top-scoring U.S. ace of World War I Eddie Rickenbacker |
| #7749, aired 2018-04-26 | IMAGE $400: NAACP Image Awards winners in 2018 included Taraji P. Henson for "Empire" & Tracee Ellis Ross for this sitcom Black-ish |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | PUERTO RICO STRONG $400: Want to donate? Orgs. like UNICEF, save the children & Hispanic federation aided P.R. after the devastation of this 2017 hurricane Maria |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | PUERTO RICO STRONG $1200: A HOFer in every way, this P.R.-born Pittsburgh Pirate died in a plane crash trying to aid Nicaraguan earthquake victims (Roberto) Clemente |
| #7688, aired 2018-01-31 | PUERTO RICO STRONG $2000: Written to protect ships from German U-boats, this 1920 act dealing with shipping was said to be hurting P.R.'s economy in 2017 Jones Act |
| #7609, aired 2017-10-12 | GEOGRA"P" $1200: In Southwest Jordan, you'll find this city of temples and tombs carved from the surrounding rock Petra |
| #7350, aired 2016-07-22 | THINGS TO DO BEFORE $600: It's the "P" in PSAT, which high schoolers may want to take before the SAT preliminary |
| #7320, aired 2016-06-10 | THAT'S MY DEPARTMENT! $600: Robert Reich,
Elaine Chao,
George P. Shultz Labor |
| #6929, aired 2014-10-30 | THE SMITHSONIAN FROM A TO Z $400: P:
A chunk of this piece of American history, chipped off by a descendant of William Bradford Plymouth Rock |
| #6839, aired 2014-05-15 | MISHMASH $800: Tell T.C. & Rick to keep it down! It's time for this TV show whose theme is heard here Magnum, P.I. |
| #6835, aired 2014-05-09 | FASHION "P"IECES $600: In 2013 the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum had an exhibit on this look, "Chaos to Couture" punk rock |
| #6823, aired 2014-04-23 | COOKING "P"s $1000: This Vietnamese noodle dish consists of meat & rice noodles served in a bowl of beef broth & seasonings pho |
| #6738, aired 2013-12-25 | CROSSWORD CLUES "P" $200: It beats "rock" but not "scissors"
(5) paper |
| #6704, aired 2013-11-07 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS $1200: (I'm Andrew Ross Sorkin.) In 2000 I broke the news of the acquisition of J.P. Morgan by this banking company Chase |
| #6698, aired 2013-10-30 | SUE GRAFTON TEACHES THE ALPHABET $1200: "'P' Is for" this, grave risk, danger or--dare we say it?!--jeopardy Peril |
| #6610, aired 2013-05-17 | FAMOUS FIRSTS $400: In 1977 P.D. (pre-Danica), Janet Guthrie became the first woman to compete in this race, finishing 29th the Indy 500 |
| #6577, aired 2013-04-02 | REALITY HITS YOU HARD, BRO $200: Rough May 2012 for this bank whose name ends in "Chase", chasing after a $2 billion or so loss it ran up J.P. Morgan Chase |
| #6407, aired 2012-06-26 | B.P. $600: To make dough rise, this can be used as a substitute for yeast baking powder |
| #6217, aired 2011-10-04 | METALS $800: Palladium is found in small quantities in ores of this "P"recious metal from which it was first isolated in 1803 platinum |
| #5871, aired 2010-03-08 | MY FAIR LADY $1200: Beautiful Lady Caroline Lamb, wife of a future British P.M., had an affair with this lord famous as both a poet & a rake (Lord) Byron |
| #5734, aired 2009-07-09 | CITY SPELLING $600: Hopefully the spelling of this Arizona capital will rise from the ashes of your brain P-H-O-E-N-I-X |
| #5692, aired 2009-05-12 | TV GEOGRAPHY $1000: Lilly Rush of this city's P.D. tries to find the killer of each "Cold Case" Philadelphia |
| #5624, aired 2009-02-05 | ROCK FORMATIONS $400: This Jimmy Page foursome first played together as part of the session group on P.J. Proby's "Three Week Hero" Led Zeppelin |
| #5532, aired 2008-09-30 | GOOD "P.R." $800: It has the domain extension .pr Puerto Rico |
| #5475, aired 2008-05-30 | "P" COUNTRY $400: In the late 18th century it was divided among Prussia, Russia & Austria Poland |
| #5457, aired 2008-05-06 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: A British P.M. gives his blood, toil, tears & sweat as a Louisville horse race track Winston Churchill Downs |
| #5416, aired 2008-03-10 | WOMEN'S FIRSTS $400: Let's show her a little R-E-S-P-E-C-T; she's the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Aretha Franklin |
| #5351, aired 2007-12-10 | "P"EOPLE $400: In 1955 this NAACP member was arrested & fined for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama Rosa Parks |
| #5240, aired 2007-05-25 | "P"s ON EARTH $1200: The Jones Act of 1917 granted U.S. citizenship to inhabitants of this Caribbean island Puerto Rico |
| #5141, aired 2007-01-08 | THE BRAIN $1000: Brains are actually good brain food, as they're rich in proteins, vitamins & this element, symbol P phosphorus |
| #5086, aired 2006-10-23 | NATIONAL SPELLING BEE WINNING WORDS $800: 1954:
This architectural term for the part of a church that crosses the nave at right angles T-R-A-N-S-E-P-T |
| #4972, aired 2006-04-04 | SESAME STREET EATS $800: (This next clue is brought to you by the letter P.)
"Hey, Big Bird, isn't it true that good nutrition is one of the special themes on 'Sesame Street' this year?"
"Oh, yes, it is, & did you know that eggs are incredibly rich in this?"
[Alex opens the egg carton, to the eggs' delight.]
"Yayyy! Yayyy!"
"Quiet, you guys, quiet!" protein |
| #4841, aired 2005-10-03 | NOBEL LIT WINNERS, INITIALLY YOURS $400: 1958:
B.P.,
Russia Boris Pasternak |
| #4816, aired 2005-07-11 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $900 (Daily Double): On May 4, classes at this Midwestern school recess from noon until 2:00 p.m. as part of an official day of remembrance Kent State |
| #4781, aired 2005-05-23 | IT CHANGED THE WORLD $1600: The Bolsheviks took over Russia in the fall of 1917, removing this moderate socialist who had become P.M. in July Kerensky |
| #4739, aired 2005-03-24 | "P" AN' "O"s $1200: Of the genus Rhus, it'll give you a rash if touched poison oak |
| #4633, aired 2004-10-27 | BUMPER STICKERS? $400: A "V.I.P." celeb:
"Warning--I brake for rock stars, especially Tommy Lee, Kid Rock, Bret Michaels..." Pamela Anderson |
| #4419, aired 2003-11-20 | 21st CENTURY ROCK $1200: A No. 1 album from 2002 was titled "P. Diddy & Bad Boy Records Present ... We Invented" this the remix |
| #4399, aired 2003-10-23 | "P"s TIME $1600: (Sarah of the Clue Crew standing in front of a chalkboard) From the Greek for "close", it's the point in the orbit of any object at when it's closest to the object it's orbiting perigee |
| #4230, aired 2003-01-10 | AESOP A.S.A.P. $600: Fox can't reach these, decides they are sour grapes |
| #4222, aired 2002-12-31 | "P"-RUSSIA $200: This czar gave Russia a "window to the west" when he built a new capital on land taken from Sweden Peter the Great |
| #4222, aired 2002-12-31 | "P"-RUSSIA $400: In the 2000 presidential election he got 53% of the vote Vladimir Putin |
| #4222, aired 2002-12-31 | "P"-RUSSIA $800: Russian for "restructuring", it was part of Gorbachev's effort to fix the economy perestroika |
| #4222, aired 2002-12-31 | "P"-RUSSIA $1,000 (Daily Double): This 1904 Nobel winner was director of the physiology dept. at the Institute of Experimental Medicine Ivan Pavlov |
| #4222, aired 2002-12-31 | "P"-RUSSIA $1000: This composer's "Peter and the Wolf" is for narrator & orchestra Sergei Prokofiev |
| #4144, aired 2002-09-12 | A VERY "P.C." CATEGORY $800: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the Richard Petty Driving Experience at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.) It's the 2-word term for the support group that's helping me to get back in the race pit crew |
| #4084, aired 2002-05-09 | "P"s & "Q"s $600: Like "Tommy", this '70s rock opera by The Who was also made into a movie Quadrophenia |
| #4065, aired 2002-04-12 | FAMOUS J.P.'s $800: (Hi, I'm Jeff Probst, host of "Rock and Roll Jeopardy!") This Led Zeppelin guitarist was a master of distortion & feedback Jimmy Page |
| #3822, aired 2001-03-27 | WAY BACK ON AUGUST 1 $500: On August 1, 1849 this missionary became the first European to reach Africa's Lake Ngami Dr. David Livingstone |
| #3686, aired 2000-09-18 | NOTABLE NAMES $1000: A national hero & saint, this Alexander was great when he helped unite Russia in the 13th century Alexander Nevsky |
| #3680, aired 2000-09-08 | GIVE ME THE "AX" $600: Slang for a rock guitarist or a jazz saxophonist Axman |
| #3610, aired 2000-04-21 | CROSSWORD CLUES "P" $200: Pilgrims' stepping stone
(8,4) Plymouth Rock |
| #3563, aired 2000-02-16 | MIND YOUR "P"s & "Q"s $600: It's the auto that leads the competitors at the start but doesn't compete in the race Pace car |
| #3263, aired 1998-11-11 | READING, WRITING & ROCK & ROLL $100: In a Jeannie C. Riley hit, "My mama socked it to" this junior high's P.T.A. Harper Valley |
| #2872, aired 1997-02-11 | NUMBER, PLEASE $400: To reach directory assistance in another city, dial the area code & this phone number 555-1212 |
| #2860, aired 1997-01-24 | POT CLUCK $300: It's the rock referred to in the name of the Rock Cornish game hen Plymouth Rock |
| #2727, aired 1996-06-11 | GEMS $100: Morganite is a pink or rose-colored gem named for this American financier J.P. Morgan |
| #2576, aired 1995-11-13 | MIND YOUR "P"s & "Q"s $500: Used in jellies & compotes, this fruit of the rose family puckers the mouth when tasted raw Quince |
| #2486, aired 1995-05-29 | CROSSWORD CLUES "P" $500: Rice region
(5) paddy |
| #2483, aired 1995-05-24 | J LETTER MEN $600: In 1901 he organized U.S. Steel J. P. Morgan |
| #1908, aired 1992-12-16 | DECEMBER 1969 $400: This rich Texan took 2 planes to N. Vietnam loaded with gifts for U.S. P.O.W.s but wasn't let in Ross Perot |
| #1197, aired 1989-11-14 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: After writing "The School for Scandal", he became an M.P. and an advisor to the future King George IV Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
| #1108, aired 1989-05-31 | U.S. HISTORY $400: As chairman of this gov't body, Joseph P. Kennedy outlawed stock manipulation practices that had made him rich the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) |
| #921, aired 1988-09-12 | "P.D." $800 (Daily Double): It's earth rich enough to mine pay dirt |
| #898, aired 1988-06-29 | 4-SYLLABLE WORDS $600: Adjective form of the word that describes a word that reads the same forwards & backwards palindromic |
| #689, aired 1987-09-10 | ASTRONOMY $400: Now past Uranus, Voyager II is expected to reach this planet at 9 P.M. PDT, August 24, 1989 Neptune |
| #645, aired 1987-05-29 | ROCK 'N ROLL $1000: Southern boogie band with name inspired by their rock 'n' roll-hating P.E. teacher Lynyrd Skynyrd |
| #444, aired 1986-05-22 | THE ARMY $600: Of "F Troop", "C.P.O. Sharkey", or "You'll Never Get Rich", the one not set in the Army C.P.O. Sharkey |
| #3, aired 1984-09-12 | AUTOMOBILES $400: In Japan it's called "rasshu awa"; in L.A, 4 to 6 P.M. rush hour |
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