| Lobbying grp. headquartered in Virginia | 39 |
| Lobbying org. in an awkward position nowadays | 45 |
| Lobbying org. with an intimidating eagle logo | 45 |
| Lobe at the middle of the soft palate | 37 |
| Lobster topping in a Chinese restaurant | 39 |
| Loc. of Citizen Kane's Xanadu | 33 |
| Loc. of the J. Paul Getty Museum | 32 |
| Local academic community resenter, perhaps | 42 |
| Local cartographer's creation | 33 |
| Local change in how a game is played | 36 |
| Local fan of the N.H.L.'s Senators | 38 |
| Local movie venue, in Variety slang | 35 |
| Local noncollegian, to a collegian | 34 |
| Local or regional Boy Scout gathering | 37 |
| Local place for making deposits or getting loans | 48 |
| Local politicians' periods in office | 40 |
| Local shop's partners, perhaps | 34 |
| Local speech pattern, to outsiders | 34 |
| Local staffer for Al Jazeera, e.g. | 34 |
| Local unit for 11- to 17-year-olds | 34 |
| Local, as opposed to across borderlines | 39 |
| Local-government areas in Queensland | 36 |
| Locale covering over 17 million sq. miles | 41 |
| Locale for 1999 solar eclipse watchers | 38 |
| Locale for a rocking cradle, in a lullaby | 41 |
| Locale for a speaker and honorees | 33 |
| Locale for a Village People hit, informally | 43 |
| Locale for a vision of the Apostle Paul | 39 |
| Locale for an Olivier Award winner | 34 |
| Locale for Apfelstrudel and Sachertorte | 39 |
| Locale for astrological advice or big egos | 42 |
| Locale for Dublin, Canton, Lima, and Medina | 43 |
| Locale for many political debates | 33 |
| Locale for many Stephen King tales | 34 |
| Locale for most of the New York Marathon | 40 |
| Locale for Puccini's "Girl" | 41 |
| Locale for tapping, toping and tipping | 38 |
| Locale for the only color "Road" movie | 48 |
| Locale for the Zoot Suit Riots of '43 | 41 |
| Locale for this puzzle's shaded squares | 43 |
| Locale for this puzzle's theme | 34 |
| Locale for two Summer Olympics to date | 38 |
| Locale for Who, What, or I Don't Know | 41 |
| Locale in "Slumdog Millionaire" | 41 |
| Locale in a 1987 Cheech Marin title | 35 |
| Locale in a Carlo Levi best seller | 34 |
| Locale in a classic Frank Sinatra song | 38 |
| Locale in a Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera | 44 |
| Locale in a much-studied 1934 photo | 35 |
| Locale in Devon or New Hampshire | 32 |
| Locale in lilac-time, in an Alfred Noyes poem | 45 |
| Locale in Sinclair's "The Jungle" | 47 |
| Locale in Twain's "Roughing It" | 45 |
| Locale of "plenty of seats" | 37 |
| Locale of "The King and I" | 36 |
| Locale of "William Tell" | 34 |
| Locale of 1869's Golden Spike | 33 |
| Locale of 2012's Operation Pillar of Defense | 48 |
| Locale of a 1956 fight for independence | 39 |
| Locale of a Flaherty film classic | 33 |
| Locale of a Horatio Nelson victory | 34 |
| Locale of a much-visited mausoleum | 34 |
| Locale of a noted 16th century Christian council | 48 |
| Locale of a noted Margaret Mead study | 37 |
| Locale of a rank with medallions | 32 |
| Locale of a state college in Mass. | 34 |
| Locale of a Stephen King residence | 34 |
| Locale of a University of Nebraska campus | 41 |
| Locale of a Vanessa Redgrave film | 33 |
| Locale of allegedly miraculous cures | 36 |
| Locale of an 1805 Napoleon victory | 34 |
| Locale of an 1864 Civil War blockade | 36 |
| Locale of Australia's Sunset Coast | 38 |
| Locale of Britain's first Christian martyr | 46 |
| Locale of Camus's "The Plague" | 44 |
| Locale of Duke Kahanamoku Lagoon | 32 |
| Locale of first Canadian oil find | 33 |
| Locale of Hitchcock's window | 32 |
| Locale of Hyannis, Chatham and Orleans | 38 |
| Locale of Krypton in the Superman saga | 38 |
| Locale of London Stansted Airport | 33 |
| Locale of long-running Mideast conflict | 39 |
| Locale of many Italian vineyards | 32 |
| Locale of many Thomas Hardy novels | 34 |
| Locale of many Wild West shootouts | 34 |
| Locale of Maxwell Smart's phone | 35 |
| Locale of misplaced Michener tales? | 35 |
| Locale of more than 50 volcanoes | 32 |
| Locale of much European offshore drilling | 41 |
| Locale of Prince Albert and Prince George | 41 |
| Locale of Ptolemy's lighthouse | 34 |
| Locale of Sam's lengthy error | 33 |
| Locale of seven C. S. Lewis novels | 34 |
| Locale of some U.S. naval forces | 32 |
| Locale of the Île de la Cité | 34 |
| Locale of the Bocca Nuova crater | 32 |
| Locale of the Cantabrian Mountains | 34 |
| Locale of the Carpathian Mountains, in part | 43 |
| Locale of the highways H1 and H2 | 32 |
| Locale of the Jeffersons' apartment | 39 |