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parachute (16 points)
Drop cloth (wordplay)
Fall necessity (wordplay)
What Coldplay used to jump (wordplay)
P·3+A·1+R·1+A·1+C·3+H·4+U·1+T·1+E·1 = 16 pts
parbuckle (19 points)
""A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out.""
P·3+A·1+R·1+B·3+U·1+C·3+K·5+L·1+E·1 = 19 pts
pasturage (12 points)
Feed a pet sugar, perhaps
Grazing after the time of the old city
Beyond you there's fury for grazing
P·3+A·1+S·1+T·1+U·1+R·1+A·1+G·2+E·1 = 12 pts
pauperize (22 points)
Impoverish.
P·3+A·1+U·1+P·3+E·1+R·1+I·1+Z·10+E·1 = 22 pts
paupiette (13 points)
A thin slice of meat or fish wrapped around a forcemeat or vegetable filling.
P·3+A·1+U·1+P·3+I·1+E·1+T·1+T·1+E·1 = 13 pts
pedagogue (14 points)
Ichabod Crane's calling.
Dogmatic teacher
Teacher gaped, disturbed by a topless rogue!
P·3+E·1+D·2+A·1+G·2+O·1+G·2+U·1+E·1 = 14 pts
penthouse (14 points)
Penny has to be keen about old apartment
Start to write you right on top
He puts one out flat
P·3+E·1+N·1+T·1+H·4+O·1+U·1+S·1+E·1 = 14 pts
penumbrae (15 points)
Shadows created during an eclipse
Shadowy places
P·3+E·1+N·1+U·1+M·3+B·3+R·1+A·1+E·1 = 15 pts
perfusate (14 points)
PERFUSE to diffuse through or over
P·3+E·1+R·1+F·4+U·1+S·1+A·1+T·1+E·1 = 14 pts
persecute (13 points)
Harry? In essence, delightful!
Turn into a martyr, perhaps
8 in itself quaintly pleasing
P·3+E·1+R·1+S·1+E·1+C·3+U·1+T·1+E·1 = 13 pts
pesthouse (14 points)
A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease.
P·3+E·1+S·1+T·1+H·4+O·1+U·1+S·1+E·1 = 14 pts
petiolule (11 points)
""A small petiole, or the petiole of a leaflet.""
P·3+E·1+T·1+I·1+O·1+L·1+U·1+L·1+E·1 = 11 pts
petulance (13 points)
Bad temper, sulkiness
Sulky bad behaviour
Stroke uncle with a ruptured spleen
P·3+E·1+T·1+U·1+L·1+A·1+N·1+C·3+E·1 = 13 pts
phototube (16 points)
An electron tube with a photosensitive cathode.
P·3+H·4+O·1+T·1+O·1+T·1+U·1+B·3+E·1 = 16 pts
picturize (22 points)
To picture.
P·3+I·1+C·3+T·1+U·1+R·1+I·1+Z·10+E·1 = 22 pts
pirouette (11 points)
Revolutionary dance move (wordplay)
Dancer's twirl
Rapid spin in ballet
P·3+I·1+R·1+O·1+U·1+E·1+T·1+T·1+E·1 = 11 pts
platitude (12 points)
Saying softly, "Freedom of choice"
'Time heals all wounds,' for example
Commonplace remark, banal or trite
P·3+L·1+A·1+T·1+I·1+T·1+U·1+D·2+E·1 = 12 pts
plausible (13 points)
Not too much of a stretch
Seemingly worthy of acceptance
False but sounding true
P·3+L·1+A·1+U·1+S·1+I·1+B·3+L·1+E·1 = 13 pts
playhouse (17 points)
Where to indulge in bingo (wordplay)
Child's toy.
Backyard structure for kids
P·3+L·1+A·1+Y·4+H·4+O·1+U·1+S·1+E·1 = 17 pts
plenitude (12 points)
Eden lit up (anagram)
More-than-adequate supply
Literary sort of abundance or fullness
P·3+L·1+E·1+N·1+I·1+T·1+U·1+D·2+E·1 = 12 pts
pluralize (20 points)
Make sibilant, perhaps
P·3+L·1+U·1+R·1+A·1+L·1+I·1+Z·10+E·1 = 20 pts
pollutive (14 points)
POLLUTE to make unclean or impure
P·3+O·1+L·1+L·1+U·1+T·1+I·1+V·4+E·1 = 14 pts
poorhouse (14 points)
Part 4 of remark
Place for the down-and-out, once
Home for the indigent
P·3+O·1+O·1+R·1+H·4+O·1+U·1+S·1+E·1 = 14 pts
porcupine (15 points)
A real sharpie (wordplay)
Featured creature (five letters)
Rodent in yellow vessel hidden in wood
P·3+O·1+R·1+C·3+U·1+P·3+I·1+N·1+E·1 = 15 pts
postulate (11 points)
Assume as axiom
Let sap out in order to claim something
Lay down rough pale stout
P·3+O·1+S·1+T·1+U·1+L·1+A·1+T·1+E·1 = 11 pts
pourboire (13 points)
Gratuity, to Gregoire
Tip at a boite
15 per cent of the check
P·3+O·1+U·1+R·1+B·3+O·1+I·1+R·1+E·1 = 13 pts
poussette (11 points)
Couple steps out with energy to perform dance figure
P·3+O·1+U·1+S·1+S·1+E·1+T·1+T·1+E·1 = 11 pts
precieuse (13 points)
Word with prefix pre-
P·3+R·1+E·1+C·3+I·1+E·1+U·1+S·1+E·1 = 13 pts
prefigure (15 points)
Foreshadow publicity for Eastern number
Consider beforehand
Foreshadow
P·3+R·1+E·1+F·4+I·1+G·2+U·1+R·1+E·1 = 15 pts
prejudice (21 points)
Disadvantage recorded with pride
Influence (someone's) opinion in advance
Jane Austen wrote 'Pride and . . . .'
P·3+R·1+E·1+J·8+U·1+D·2+I·1+C·3+E·1 = 21 pts
prelature (11 points)
Group of clergymen
P·3+R·1+E·1+L·1+A·1+T·1+U·1+R·1+E·1 = 11 pts
prelusive (14 points)
Of the nature of a prelude; introductory; indicating that something of a like kind is to follow.
P·3+R·1+E·1+L·1+U·1+S·1+I·1+V·4+E·1 = 14 pts
premature (13 points)
Before the normal time
Born too soon
Born before full term
P·3+R·1+E·1+M·3+A·1+T·1+U·1+R·1+E·1 = 13 pts
procedure (14 points)
Criminal or civil study, in law
Established way of working
Reproduce new way to get things done
P·3+R·1+O·1+C·3+E·1+D·2+U·1+R·1+E·1 = 14 pts
pronounce (13 points)
Part of speech given to church, say
They say Anglicans are articulate
Make the sound of (a word)
P·3+R·1+O·1+N·1+O·1+U·1+N·1+C·3+E·1 = 13 pts
propagule (14 points)
""Any of various usually vegetative portions of a plant, such as a bud or other offshoot, that aid in dispersal of the species and from which a new individual may develop.""
P·3+R·1+O·1+P·3+A·1+G·2+U·1+L·1+E·1 = 14 pts
prosecute (13 points)
Work in court, perhaps
Subject to trial.
Bring criminal action against
P·3+R·1+O·1+S·1+E·1+C·3+U·1+T·1+E·1 = 13 pts
proustite (11 points)
""A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochinealred color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver.""
P·3+R·1+O·1+U·1+S·1+T·1+I·1+T·1+E·1 = 11 pts
prurience (13 points)
Lewdness - epic rerun (anagram)
Unhealthy interest in sexual matters
Morbid interest in sex etc
P·3+R·1+U·1+R·1+I·1+E·1+N·1+C·3+E·1 = 13 pts
publicise (15 points)
Plug I use with clip, desperate to cover opening in bath
P·3+U·1+B·3+L·1+I·1+C·3+I·1+S·1+E·1 = 15 pts
publicize (24 points)
PUBLIC people as a whole
P·3+U·1+B·3+L·1+I·1+C·3+I·1+Z·10+E·1 = 24 pts
puissance (13 points)
Power of car, not new, in red
Rough seas in cup competition with jumps
Power: Poetic.
P·3+U·1+I·1+S·1+S·1+A·1+N·1+C·3+E·1 = 13 pts
pullulate (11 points)
Send forth sprouts
Multiply like this and it may drag you till you are dead
Swarm
P·3+U·1+L·1+L·1+U·1+L·1+A·1+T·1+E·1 = 11 pts
pulmonate (13 points)
Having breathing organs that act as lungs.
P·3+U·1+L·1+M·3+O·1+N·1+A·1+T·1+E·1 = 13 pts
pulsatile (11 points)
""Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument. as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument.""
P·3+U·1+L·1+S·1+A·1+T·1+I·1+L·1+E·1 = 11 pts
pulverise (14 points)
Reduce to dust (S, not Z)
Grind to powder
Thoroughly beat repulsive cavalier
P·3+U·1+L·1+V·4+E·1+R·1+I·1+S·1+E·1 = 14 pts
pulverize (23 points)
Grind into dust
Demolish
P·3+U·1+L·1+V·4+E·1+R·1+I·1+Z·10+E·1 = 23 pts
punctuate (13 points)
Insert full stops, commas, etc in (text)
Pointedly edit written work (wordplay)
Add marks to text
P·3+U·1+N·1+C·3+T·1+U·1+A·1+T·1+E·1 = 13 pts
pupillage (14 points)
State of student turning up sack
Being at school and turning up to plunder
P·3+U·1+P·3+I·1+L·1+L·1+A·1+G·2+E·1 = 14 pts
puppylike (22 points)
Adjective meaning resembling
P·3+U·1+P·3+P·3+Y·4+L·1+I·1+K·5+E·1 = 22 pts
purgative (15 points)
Musical combo disheartened over producing a washout (wordplay)
If you're bound to be in purgatory, this should give you a moving experience
P·3+U·1+R·1+G·2+A·1+T·1+I·1+V·4+E·1 = 15 pts
purposive (16 points)
Having or indicating purpose or design.
P·3+U·1+R·1+P·3+O·1+S·1+I·1+V·4+E·1 = 16 pts
purselike (15 points)
""A woman's bag for carrying keys, a wallet, and other personal items; a handbag.""
P·3+U·1+R·1+S·1+E·1+L·1+I·1+K·5+E·1 = 15 pts
pursuance (13 points)
The carrying out (of something)
Carrying out (of policy)
In this of it's carrying out
P·3+U·1+R·1+S·1+U·1+A·1+N·1+C·3+E·1 = 13 pts
purulence (13 points)
Bodily Functions
P·3+U·1+R·1+U·1+L·1+E·1+N·1+C·3+E·1 = 13 pts
puttylike (18 points)
Adjective meaning resembling
P·3+U·1+T·1+T·1+Y·4+L·1+I·1+K·5+E·1 = 18 pts

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