| The launch of fifty fireworks in the span of a minute, say | 58 |
| The law for U.S. taxpayers (abbr.) | 34 |
| The law has a long one | 22 |
| The law has one | 15 |
| The Law of Moses | 16 |
| The law's is long | 21 |
| The law's long limb? | 24 |
| The law's reach | 19 |
| The law, according to Mr. Bumble | 32 |
| The law, per Dickens | 20 |
| The law, to Mr. Bumble | 22 |
| The lax may spare it | 20 |
| The lead pipe, the wrench or the candlestick, but not the rope | 62 |
| The lead reindeer | 17 |
| The lead, for instance | 22 |
| The League of Extraordinary Nitpickers? | 39 |
| The Leaky Cauldron, e.g. | 24 |
| The Lean One, in "Peer Gynt" | 38 |
| The Leaning Tower News, e.g.? | 29 |
| The Learning ___ | 16 |
| The Leary that was tripping | 27 |
| The least amount | 16 |
| The least bit | 13 |
| The least bit of concern | 24 |
| The least bit, informally | 25 |
| The least concern | 17 |
| The least expensive "dish" you can serve? | 51 |
| The least funny Marx? | 21 |
| The least little bit | 20 |
| The least one can do | 20 |
| The Left | 8 |
| The Left Banke "Walk Away ___" | 40 |
| The Left Banke: "I Haven't Got the ___" | 53 |
| The left one is for passing | 27 |
| The left, informally | 20 |
| The left, to a southpaw? | 24 |
| The legal profession | 20 |
| The Legend of Zelda console, for short | 38 |
| The Legend of Zelda platform, briefly | 37 |
| The Legend of Zelda platform, for short | 39 |
| The Legend of ___ (Nintendo game) | 33 |
| The legendary Babe | 18 |
| The legendary Fitzgerald | 24 |
| The legislative branch | 22 |
| The legislature, in Israel | 26 |
| The Lemonheads lead singer Dando | 32 |
| The Lemonheads' Dando | 25 |
| The length of a meter is based precisely on the amount of light emitted from this | 81 |
| The length Wilson went to? | 26 |
| The lens is behind it | 21 |
| The less you see of this person the better | 42 |
| The less-used end | 17 |
| The lesser of two --- | 21 |
| The lesser of two __ | 20 |
| The lesser of two ___ | 21 |
| The letter in "The Scarlet Letter" | 44 |
| The letter O doesn't have one | 33 |
| The Lettermen, e.g. | 19 |
| The letters in alphabet soup | 28 |
| The Libertines' Doherty | 27 |
| The Liberty Bell's strike note | 34 |
| The Liberty Tree and others | 27 |
| The Liberty Tree was one | 24 |
| The Liberty Tree, e.g. | 22 |
| The Liberty Tree, for one | 25 |
| The libido | 10 |
| The libido, in psychiatry | 25 |
| The library does it again and again | 35 |
| The library in an old mansion may have one | 42 |
| The Library's Periodicals Room was the source of most of the excerpted material in the first issue of ___ | 109 |
| The Library's rare first-edition printing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" is, to its publisher's chagrin, ___ | 125 |
| The Library's Special Collections include one of George Washington's creations, ___ | 91 |
| The life of -- | 14 |
| The life of a hobo | 18 |
| The life of Riley | 17 |
| The life of Riley, say | 22 |
| The life of the party | 21 |
| The life of the party provides them | 35 |
| The life of ___ | 15 |
| The life of ___ (ease) | 22 |
| The life of ___ (luxurious existence) | 37 |
| The Life of ____ | 16 |
| The light | 9 |
| The light bulb, to Edison | 25 |
| The lightning bolt on Harry Potter's forehead, e.g. | 55 |
| The Lightning Seeds lead singer Broudie | 39 |
| The Lightning-Struck Tower, for one | 35 |
| The like | 8 |
| The likes of fiction's Eloise | 33 |
| The Lily Maid of Astolat | 24 |
| The lily maid of ___ (Tennyson's Elaine) | 44 |
| The limbo, once | 15 |
| The limit's leader, after "the" | 45 |
| The limit, at times | 19 |
| The limit, for some | 19 |
| The limit, in a saying | 22 |
| The limit, perhaps | 18 |
| The limit, proverbially | 23 |
| The limit, sometimes | 20 |
| The limit, they say | 19 |