| Location in "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" | 53 |
| Locales for "Ocean's Eleven" and several Bond films | 65 |
| Locale that often includes a wet bar and large-screen TV | 56 |
| Locale of Shakespeare's ''fiery portal'' | 60 |
| Locale of Picasso's "Nude Woman With Necklace" | 60 |
| Locale for finished works that haven't yet appeared | 55 |
| Locale for Che Guevara in "The Motorcycle Diaries" | 60 |
| Local subway that runs along NYC's Eighth Avenue | 52 |
| Local politics and high school sports, for news reporters | 57 |
| Local convenience ... or a hint to the words in the circled squares | 67 |
| Lobbying organization that might be "super" | 53 |
| Lobbying gp. that offers personal protection classes | 52 |
| Living room reading that includes this puzzle's theme | 57 |
| Living Colour "Look in my eyes, what do you ___?" | 59 |
| Lively dance performed as a six-pack is being laid to rest? | 59 |
| LIU branch with the slogan "The choice is clear" | 58 |
| Little ___, who sang "Do the Loco-Motion with me" | 59 |
| Little ___, of "Smokey and the Bandit" movies | 55 |
| Little ___ (protagonist of the video game Punch-Out!!) | 54 |
| Little ___ ("Uncle Tom's Cabin" character) | 56 |
| Little Jackie's sitting spot, with "The" | 54 |
| Little girl in 1935's "Our Little Girl" | 53 |
| Little cartoon character known for giving exploding gifts | 57 |
| Literature Nobelist who wrote "Waiting for the Barbarians" | 68 |
| Literature Nobelist who cofounded the London School of Economics | 64 |
| Literature about Randall Munroe's stick figure drawings? | 60 |
| Literary works that typically begin "To A" | 52 |
| Literary title character called "a pure woman" | 56 |
| Literary source for Broadway's "The Golden Apple" | 63 |
| Literary question and homophonic inspiration for this puzzle | 60 |
| Literary monogram found in the answers to the nine asterisked clues | 67 |
| Literary figure whose name is a letter short of something he wrote | 66 |
| Literary character with the same first and last name | 52 |
| Literary character whose first word is "'Sblood" | 62 |
| Literary character who's as charmin' as a slug? | 55 |
| Literary character who has an affair with Count Vronsky | 55 |
| Literary character who had a title "Prayer for" him | 61 |
| Literary character who debuted in "The Curse of Capistrano" | 69 |
| Literally, Tibetan for "bear from a rocky place" | 58 |
| Literally, it's Italian for "pick-me-up" | 54 |
| Literally, ''in sailor's style'' | 52 |
| Literal translation of "Adirondack" that evokes trees | 63 |
| Listing that can change based on the weather, for short | 55 |
| List with "Save" and "Print" options | 56 |
| List of chapters and page numbers at the front of a bk. | 55 |
| Lisa with the #1 hit "Stay (I Missed You)" | 52 |
| Lisa who played Taylor McBride on "Melrose Place" | 59 |
| Lisa who cohosted "Soap Talk" with Ty Treadway | 56 |
| Lisa Loeb hit from the album "Firecracker" | 52 |
| Lisa Lisa "Ooh baby, I think I love you from head ___" | 64 |
| Lisa Kudrow, just pretending to be her "Friends" character? | 69 |
| Liqueur whose name means "a little bitter" | 52 |
| Liqueur that's Italian for "rather bitter" | 56 |
| Liqueur reputedly named for a noblewoman's chambermaid | 58 |
| Liqueur named from the Gaelic for "drink that satisfies" | 66 |
| Lipton product, as marketed in some European countries | 54 |
| Lion voiced by Liam Neeson in "The Chronicles of Narnia" | 66 |
| Lion king in "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" | 62 |
| Lion in Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia" | 56 |
| Lion in C. S. Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia" | 62 |
| Lion in "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" | 56 |
| Linkletter who hosted TV's "House Party" | 54 |
| Link's enemy in the "Legend of Zelda" series | 58 |
| Link buried in this puzzle's three longest entries | 54 |
| Lining that keeps the lungs from rubbing against the ribs | 57 |
| Linguistics term coined in 1973, and made controversial in 1996 | 63 |
| Linguistic study of Caesar's dying words? (#541) | 52 |
| Lingerie brand for the "full-figured woman" | 53 |
| Lines first used on a pack of Wrigley's gum: Abbr. | 54 |
| Liner in "The Man With the Golden Gun," familiarly | 60 |
| Linebacker whose last game was a win in Super Bowl XLVII | 56 |
| Linebacker Junior who played in 12 consecutive Pro Bowls | 56 |
| Linebacker Junior who debuted in 1990 and still hasn't retired | 66 |
| Linebacker Junior in the San Diego Chargers Hall of Fame | 56 |
| Linebacker Brian banned from the 1987 Orange Bowl for steroid use | 65 |
| Line to the wedding florist about excessive arrangements? | 57 |
| Line that passes through both of an ellipse's foci | 54 |
| Line of riders staggered for maximum protection from the wind | 61 |
| Line of Porsches whose name is Spanish for "race" | 59 |
| Line of Motorola phones that sounds like the cutting edge | 57 |
| Line in "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" | 54 |
| Line from Metallica's "Until It Sleeps" | 53 |
| Line from "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" | 60 |
| Line from "All Quiet on the Western Front"? | 53 |
| Line from ''Santa Claus is Coming to Town'' | 59 |
| Line from ''Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!'' | 68 |
| Line from ''Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas'' | 68 |
| Line after Casca's "Speak, hands, for me!" | 56 |
| Linda of Broadway's "Jekyll & Hyde" | 53 |
| Lincoln who some scholars suggest might have been gay | 53 |
| Lincoln player in "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" | 53 |
| Lincoln & Weissmuller; Markey & O'Sullivan | 54 |
| Limited furnace work that sounds like major furnace work? | 57 |
| Limited editions of "The Civil War: A Narrative"? | 59 |
| Limerick, part two: "Who lived in a bright ___" | 57 |
| Limerick, part one: "There was a young lass ___" | 58 |
| Limerick, part five: "But I'd rather eat ___" | 59 |
| Limbaugh said she was "George McGovern on hormones" | 61 |
| Lillian of ''The Night of the Hunter'' | 54 |
| Lilian Jackson ___ ("The Cat Who ..." mystery writer) | 63 |