| ___ la la (singing syllables) | 29 |
| ___ La Motte, in Lake Champlain | 31 |
| ___ la Paix | 11 |
| ___ la Paix, Paris thoroughfare | 31 |
| ___ la Plata | 12 |
| ___ la Plata, S.A. estuary | 26 |
| ___ la Société | 20 |
| ___ la vie | 10 |
| ___ la vie (such is life) | 25 |
| ___ la vie! | 11 |
| ___ la vista | 12 |
| ___ La-Chapelle | 15 |
| ___ la-la | 9 |
| ___ Laënnec, inventor of the stethoscope | 43 |
| ___ lab | 7 |
| ___ labor | 9 |
| ___ Laboratories (Chicago pharmaceutical company) | 49 |
| ___ Lachaise (Paris's largest cemetery) | 43 |
| ___ Lackawanna | 14 |
| ___ Lackawanna (bygone railroad) | 32 |
| ___ Lackawanna Railroad | 23 |
| ___ Lackawanna Railway | 22 |
| ___ Lacoste | 11 |
| ___ Lacs National Wildlife Refuge | 33 |
| ___ Lacs, Minn. | 15 |
| ___ Lad, doughnut shop on "The Simpsons" | 50 |
| ___ ladder | 10 |
| ___ lady | 8 |
| ___ Lady (decades-old commercial creation) | 42 |
| ___ lady (doorbell ringer) | 26 |
| ___ Lady (Kennedy assassination figure) | 39 |
| ___ Lady (kind of saleswoman) | 29 |
| ___ Lady of ... | 15 |
| ___ Lady of Fatima | 18 |
| ___ Lady of Perpetual Help | 26 |
| ___ Lagos (region of Chile) | 27 |
| ___ lait | 8 |
| ___ Lake (one of New York's Finger Lakes) | 45 |
| ___ Lake, N.Y. | 14 |
| ___ Lake, N.Y. spa | 18 |
| ___ Lakes, trio in N.Y. | 23 |
| ___ Lama | 8 |
| ___ lamb | 8 |
| ___ lamb (gigot) | 16 |
| ___ lamb (main dish choice) | 27 |
| ___ Lamont ("Singin' in the Rain" role) | 53 |
| ___ lamp | 8 |
| ___ lamp ('60s novelty) | 27 |
| ___ lamp (1960s novelty) | 24 |
| ___ land | 8 |
| ___ land (area between armies) | 30 |
| ___ land (dreamlike state) | 26 |
| ___ land (isolated area) | 24 |
| ___ land (Los Angeles nickname) | 31 |
| ___ land (place for out-of-touch types) | 39 |
| ___ land (where unreality reigns supreme) | 41 |
| ___ Land in Antarctica | 22 |
| ___ Land of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" | 61 |
| ___ Land, in Antarctica | 23 |
| ___ Landing (part of Philadelphia) | 34 |
| ___ Landing (Philadelphia area) | 31 |
| ___ Lands of South Dakota | 25 |
| ___ landslide | 13 |
| ___ lane | 8 |
| ___ lane (carpoolers' convenience) | 38 |
| ___ lane (carpoolers' place on the highway) | 47 |
| ___ lane (commuters' aid) | 29 |
| ___ Lane (Daily Planet employee) | 32 |
| ___ lane (rush-hr. convenience) | 31 |
| ___ lane (where carpoolers drive) | 33 |
| ___ Lane (where the Muffin Man lives) | 37 |
| ___ Lane Theatre | 16 |
| ___ Lane, 1814 battle site | 26 |
| ___ Lane, acting first lady during Buchanan's tenure | 56 |
| ___ Lane, admirer of Superman | 29 |
| ___ Lane, home of London's Theatre Royal | 44 |
| ___ Lane, London theater locale | 31 |
| ___ Lang ("Smallville" role) | 38 |
| ___ Lang (Superboy's girlfriend) | 36 |
| ___ Lang of Smallville | 22 |
| ___ lang syne | 13 |
| ___ Lang, Superboy's friend | 31 |
| ___ Lang, Superboy's girlfriend | 35 |
| ___ Lang, Superboy's love | 29 |
| ___ Langer, who wrote "Philosophy in a New Key" | 57 |
| ___ Lanka | 9 |
| ___ Lanka (Ceylon) | 18 |
| ___ Lanka (formerly Ceylon) | 27 |
| ___ Lankan | 10 |
| ___ Lankans | 11 |
| ___ Lansing, Mich. | 18 |
| ___ lantern | 11 |
| ___ Lanterns | 12 |
| ___ Lanza, memorable tenor | 26 |
| ___ Lao | 7 |
| ___ Lao, leftist Asian group | 28 |
| ___ Lapham, Howells protagonist | 31 |
| ___ lard | 8 |
| ___ Laredo | 10 |
| ___ Laredo, Mexico | 18 |