| Pranks on Halloween, for short | 30 |
| Possessed by us, say | 20 |
| Portuguese salutation | 21 |
| Post-meal sound | 15 |
| Popular smoothie seed | 21 |
| Prevent a disaster | 18 |
| Prefix meaning against or opposed to | 36 |
| Pen name for Nora Roberts' futuristic cop stories | 49 |
| Painful areas on the body | 25 |
| Protection given to people in danger | 36 |
| Period of sudden economic growth | 32 |
| Padded surface for deep relaxation | 34 |
| Pay close attention | 19 |
| programming language originally named mocha | 43 |
| prop used to lengthen a circus performer's leg | 46 |
| Polish academic's empty argument | 32 |
| place to get bus going round ordinary bend | 42 |
| put up list differently for bulbous plants | 42 |
| part sue played in grazing land | 31 |
| persuade a soprano to take part in devious ruse | 47 |
| picked out large space behind church | 36 |
| Poverty-stricken holy man welcomes in family | 44 |
| Pampering spot on a cruise | 26 |
| Pedicure beneficiaries | 22 |
| Performer on stage or on screen | 31 |
| Prince, to a king and queen | 27 |
| Prescription amount | 19 |
| Pestilence | 10 |
| Piece of furniture that often faces a TV | 40 |
| Passenger on a plane | 20 |
| Pretty ... [1990 rom-com] | 25 |
| Pledge at the altar: 2 wds. | 27 |
| Place where you might shop at Spencer's or Claire's | 51 |
| Positive quality | 16 |
| Peels or chops, e.g. | 20 |
| Persisted | 9 |
| Pointed part of a church | 24 |
| Praiseful pieces | 16 |
| Pampering, for short | 20 |
| Props for some Revolutionary War reenactors | 43 |
| Pulitzer-winning poet Sharon | 28 |
| Portugal's place | 16 |
| personal views | 14 |
| puts back | 9 |
| Precisely defined | 17 |
| Poem in lament | 14 |
| Predilection | 12 |
| Parson by the lake daydreaming | 30 |
| pub's patio, perhaps | 20 |
| Positioned to one side | 22 |
| pliability | 10 |
| personal guru | 13 |
| pretty woman star, julia .... | 29 |
| pelvic joint | 12 |
| potency | 7 |
| physically fit or strong | 24 |
| physics now innate, but erratic | 31 |
| promise, beginning with vowels? | 31 |
| perched on some circus big one | 30 |
| priest | 6 |
| plaintive cry | 13 |
| pondering | 9 |
| periods of indulgence | 21 |
| paperwork, informally | 21 |
| Place to gamble | 15 |
| Payable now | 11 |
| Pealed | 6 |
| President after FDR | 19 |
| Perfect sphere | 14 |
| Plant grown for food | 20 |
| Participates in an election | 27 |
| Paper fasteners | 15 |
| Professional Fortnite player, duos with Queasy | 46 |
| Palindromic Asian flatbread | 27 |
| pal holding guevara's weapon | 28 |
| perhaps tommy cooper daftly entertaining a thousand? right answer! | 66 |
| plant trumpeter in front of whistle-blower | 42 |
| piece of bread on empty southport promenade | 43 |
| peers in entrance to santander banks after six | 46 |
| playing the violin, stroke neck and bend one's body | 51 |
| performed in a bass voice, creating a light effect | 50 |
| Put up a fight, when sister in trouble | 38 |
| Poor | 4 |
| Powerful cutting-tool | 21 |
| Post sent by plane | 18 |
| Pink crumble fruit | 18 |
| Person held to ransom | 21 |
| Put [text] into cipher | 22 |
| Popular number puzzle | 21 |
| Provide weapons to | 18 |
| Part for a performer | 20 |
| Porpoise's close relative | 25 |
| Place for beers and meals | 25 |
| Pestered | 8 |
| Paella base | 11 |
| Phi Beta .. | 11 |
| Photoshop icon | 14 |
| Product of refinement | 21 |
| Possible comment after sweeping | 31 |
| Pastoral relative | 17 |
| Processes, as some figs | 23 |
| Places for sinking baskets | 26 |
| Prominent white beam | 20 |
| Party one hopes is unsuccessful | 31 |
| Prevent, with "off" | 19 |
| Paper in a gift box | 19 |
| Put a knot in | 13 |
| Parts in plays | 14 |
| Prefix for virus | 16 |
| Payments from tenants | 21 |
| Person dreaming of fame | 23 |
| Places for students in a classroom | 34 |
| payment and a bit extra in post | 31 |
| Podcast equipment, for short | 28 |
| Product teaser | 14 |
| Pasta-sauce brand | 17 |
| Potato bag | 10 |
| Put money in a piggy bank, say | 30 |
| Pancreas or Pituitary, in human body | 36 |
| person who's deep in their work? | 32 |
| poems of homage | 15 |
| participates in a game of charades, in a way | 44 |
| principles | 10 |
| predator with powerful jaws | 27 |
| public defender's field | 23 |
| piece of work for man of patience | 33 |
| potman? | 7 |
| parmesan, say, is bad luck | 26 |
| permit woman, as ordered | 24 |
| pull away from the east | 23 |
| put off one's retirement | 24 |
| parliamentary account? | 22 |
| paper again in the morning | 26 |
| programme indicating how long furniture takes? | 46 |
| Persuasive correspondence is a sign of success | 46 |
| Possibly vital source of music | 30 |
| Plaything for well balanced children | 36 |
| Part of a strict routine diet | 29 |
| Perform a double act with a bird | 32 |
| pale greenish-blue transparent variety of beryl used as a gemstone | 66 |
| protein that acts as a catalyst to bring about a biochemical reaction | 69 |
| pressure to clear out bundle | 28 |
| procure from strange tradesman | 30 |
| pam struggled in current | 24 |
| professionals who work from home about a quarter of the time? | 61 |
| political coalition | 19 |
| popeyes rival | 13 |
| Prefix with athlete | 19 |
| Pockets for falafel | 19 |
| Parent's demand | 15 |
| Player one? | 11 |
| Place for a peel | 16 |
| Petrol purchase | 15 |
| Prepare for a shot | 18 |
| Part of a pomegranate you should eat | 36 |
| Part of a cherry you shouldn't eat | 34 |
| pasta sauce ingredients | 23 |
| promos | 6 |
| pet's rope | 10 |
| pigs out | 8 |
| picture | 7 |
| photo sharing app, briefly | 26 |
| phillipa of "hamilton" | 22 |
| Pre-marriage payment offered to a groom's family | 48 |
| Polynesian rum cocktail .. tai | 30 |
| Person who models for a portraitist | 35 |
| Putting blacktop on a road | 26 |
| Plant or sow | 12 |
| Powder mixture used in laser printers | 37 |
| Pale yellow chemical element | 28 |
| Piece of rock from space | 24 |
| Person who persuades people to work for a company | 49 |
| Pre-performance practice | 24 |
| precedes maria in latin prayer | 30 |
| paste tense of cleave | 21 |
| Partly hurting in disorder | 26 |
| philippe, centre who won 111 caps for france in rugby union | 59 |
| place noted for monks is tense, i reckon | 40 |
| part of dramatic work is noticed, reportedly | 44 |
| Projecting part extends upwards within limits | 45 |
| Part of NHS reportedly given support | 36 |
| Provided fine canned food for one? | 34 |
| Popular publicity item for launching entertaining book is unacceptable | 70 |
| Pioneer in DVRs | 15 |
| Presidential thumbs down | 24 |
| President of NPR from 1998 to 2008 who was honored with the 2006 Edward R Murrow Award for Outstanding Contributions to Public Radio [2 wds] | 140 |
| Prepare to drive, and a hint to making sense of six pairs of Across answers | 75 |
| P-Funk's Collins | 16 |
| Pitching goal | 13 |
| Past paunchy | 12 |
| Parent on a field trip, say | 27 |
| Past tense of tis | 17 |
| Play the lead role | 18 |
| Phyllis actress who appeared on The Twilight Zone in 1961: 2 wds. | 65 |
| Playwright | 10 |
| Preventive measure | 18 |
| Payment advice | 14 |
| Prisons | 7 |
| Prepared for a blow | 19 |
| Put to use | 10 |