| Leader of the Connecticut Yankees in 1920's-40's music | 62 |
| Leader of the band with the 1962 hit "Green Onions" | 61 |
| Leader of the "descamisados" ("shirtless ones") | 67 |
| Leader of Egypt's revolution and its second president | 57 |
| Leader given the posthumous title Rex Perpetuus Norvegiae | 57 |
| Leader called a "traitor to his class," for short | 59 |
| Leader called "a thug and a murderer" by Kerry in 2013 | 64 |
| Lead-off track on the Beatles' "Revolver" | 55 |
| Lead-in to someone else's words, after "and" | 58 |
| Lead-in to "the above" or "your business" | 61 |
| Lead-in to "fetched" or "sighted" | 53 |
| Lead-in to "di" or "da" in a Beatles song | 61 |
| Lead-in to ''plunk'' or ''plop'' | 64 |
| Lead-in to ''choo'' or ''plunk'' | 64 |
| Lead-in to ''boy'' or ''girl'' | 62 |
| Lead-in to ''boy!'' or ''girl!'' | 64 |
| Lead-in for "cuisine" or "couture" | 54 |
| Lead-in for "ballistics" or "space" | 55 |
| Lead-in for ''loss'' or ''glance'' | 66 |
| Lead-in for ''light'' or ''night'' | 66 |
| Lead-in for ''life'' or ''size'' | 64 |
| Lead-in for ''graph'' or ''legal'' | 66 |
| Lead single from The Smashing Pumpkins' "Gish" | 60 |
| Lead singer in No Doubt's hit "Don't Speak" | 61 |
| Lead role in the film "La Cage aux Folles" | 52 |
| Lead role in Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Maid of Pskov" | 64 |
| Lead role in "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" | 58 |
| Lead pellet-filled item used to weigh down scuba divers | 55 |
| Lead character on TV's "The Pretender" | 52 |
| Lead character in seasons 1-3 of "Homeland" | 53 |
| Lead character in Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove" | 64 |
| Lead a law-abiding life as a former criminal, in British slang (1,8) | 68 |
| Leachman who won an Oscar for "The Last Picture Show" | 63 |
| Leachman replaced her on "The Facts of Life" | 54 |
| Leachman of "Young Frankenstein" and "Beerfest" | 67 |
| Le Gallienne's "The ___ the Little Peoples" | 57 |
| Le Carré trilogy "The Search for ___" | 54 |
| LCD Soundsystem might come up with a "Big" one | 56 |
| Layer discussed in "An Inconvenient Truth" | 52 |
| Lawyer/novelist who wrote "Presumed Innocent" | 55 |
| Lawyer played by Pacino in "Angels in America" | 56 |
| Lawyer in both "Civil Wars" and "L.A. Law" | 62 |
| Lawyer hired by McKenzie Brackman to meet ethnic quota (107 episodes) | 69 |
| Lawyer Gerry who authored "How to Argue and Win Every Time" | 69 |
| Lawyer Davis who served in the Clinton and Bush administrations | 63 |
| Lawrence who co-wrote two of the "Star Wars" films | 60 |
| Lawrence Welk's "one"/"two" connector | 61 |
| Lawn area called a "devil's strip" only in Akron, Ohio | 68 |
| Law school subject that sounds like a piece of cake? | 52 |
| Law school grads, briefly, and an apt title for this puzzle | 59 |
| Law enforcement org. featured in "Bullitt" | 52 |
| Law enforcement nickname purportedly coined by Machine Gun Kelly | 64 |
| Lavish combination of ingredients blended in advance? | 53 |
| Lavish "60 Minutes" reporter Lesley with gifts, say? | 62 |
| Laurence, in "What's Love Got to Do With It" | 58 |
| Laurence's "Wuthering Heights" co-star | 52 |
| Laurence who wrote "A Sentimental Journey" | 52 |
| Laurence in "Romeo and Juliet," for example | 53 |
| Lauren punched out in an episode of "The Sopranos" | 60 |
| Laurelin's partner in Tolkien's Two Trees of Valinor | 60 |
| Laura's hubby on "The Dick van Dyke Show" | 55 |
| Laura's cry on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" | 53 |
| Laura's classic cry on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" | 61 |
| Laura who wrote the song "Wedding Bell Blues" | 55 |
| Laura Nyro album "___ and the Thirteenth Confession" | 62 |
| Lauper who participated in "We Are the World" | 55 |
| Laughed like Lily Tomlin's phone operator, Ernestine | 56 |
| Laugh coined by Lewis Carroll in "Jabberwocky" | 56 |
| Latka's womanizing alter-ego on "Taxi," ___ Ferrari | 65 |
| Latitude between the South Frigid Zone and South Temperate Zone | 63 |
| Latina actress/singer who started out as a breakdancer | 54 |
| Latin shout in "The Passion of the Christ" | 52 |
| Latin for "holding a grudge for a long, long time"? | 61 |
| Latin for "fighting over parking spots is not allowed"? | 65 |
| Latin for "cheating on one's timecard"? | 53 |
| Late-night talk show host starting in the late '60s | 55 |
| Late-night host who testified in the Michael Jackson trial | 58 |
| Late-night host who does a "Thank You Notes" bit | 58 |
| Late writer/philosopher/"psychonaut" McKenna | 54 |
| Late Unification Church leader who visited the astronomy class? | 63 |
| Late political leader who wrote "Long Walk to Freedom" | 64 |
| Late NFL star and "Police Academy" actor Smith | 56 |
| Late host Ken of MTV's "Remote Control" | 53 |
| Late advice-columnist Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips, more commonly | 69 |
| Late actress who was on "General Hospital" for 25 years | 65 |
| Late "Diff'rent Strokes" actress Plato | 52 |
| Last-minute way to reduce tax for a desperate filer? | 52 |
| Last words of Burgess' ''Purple Cow'' | 57 |
| Last words of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" | 61 |
| Last word of the title that begins "For Colored Girls..." | 67 |
| Last word of the movie "Back to the Future" | 53 |
| Last word of the first verse of "Jack and Jill" | 57 |
| Last word of the first verse of "Amazing Grace" | 57 |
| Last word of Handel's ''Messiah'' | 53 |
| Last word of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" | 54 |
| Last word of "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" | 57 |
| Last word of ''The Farmer in the Dell'' | 55 |
| Last word of ''For He's a Jolly Good Fellow'' | 65 |
| Last word of ''America the Beautiful'' | 54 |
| Last word in the Lord's Prayer, before "Amen" | 59 |