| ___ leash | 9 |
| ___ least | 9 |
| ___ Leasure (Courtney Love's role in "The People vs. Larry Flynt") | 80 |
| ___ leather | 11 |
| ___ leather (shoe material) | 27 |
| ___ leave it | 12 |
| ___ León (Mexican state bordering Texas) | 43 |
| ___ León, Mexico | 19 |
| ___ Lebanon | 11 |
| ___ leches cake | 15 |
| ___ lector | 10 |
| ___ Lederer (Ann Landers) | 25 |
| ___ Lee | 7 |
| ___ Lee (actress and former game show co-host) | 46 |
| ___ Lee (big name in cakes) | 27 |
| ___ Lee (frozen dessert brand) | 30 |
| ___ Lee bakery | 14 |
| ___ Lee cakes | 13 |
| ___ Lee Corp. | 13 |
| ___ Lee Corp. (Fortune 500 company) | 35 |
| ___ Lee Corporation | 19 |
| ___ Lee Gifford | 15 |
| ___ Lee Gifford (former Regis Philbin cohort) | 45 |
| ___ Lee Masters | 15 |
| ___ Lee Nolin of "Baywatch" | 37 |
| ___ Lee of "Funny Face" | 33 |
| ___ Lee of cakes | 16 |
| ___ Lee of Marvel Comics | 24 |
| ___ Lee Parks, civil-rights activist | 36 |
| ___ Lee, star of the 20's | 29 |
| ___ Lee, Valentino co-star | 26 |
| ___ Lee, who lived in a kingdom by the sea | 42 |
| ___ Leeds, O'Neill heroine | 30 |
| ___ left feet (is clumsy) | 25 |
| ___ left field | 14 |
| ___ leg (made fun of) | 21 |
| ___ leg to stand on | 19 |
| ___ leg up (lent a hand) | 24 |
| ___ legend (modern-day myth) | 28 |
| ___ legomenon (word or phrase used only once in a document or corpus) | 69 |
| ___ legomenon (word that appears just once in a given corpus) | 61 |
| ___ legomenon (word that appears only once in a manuscript) | 59 |
| ___ legs | 8 |
| ___ legs (nautical steadiness) | 30 |
| ___ Lehmann, memorable soprano | 30 |
| ___ Lejeune | 11 |
| ___ Leman | 9 |
| ___ Leman, Genève | 20 |
| ___ Lemaris, early love of Superman | 35 |
| ___ Lemon ("30 Rock" role) | 36 |
| ___ Lemon of "30 Rock" | 32 |
| ___ Lemon, Tina Fey's "30 Rock" character | 55 |
| ___ Lemper, German chanteuse | 28 |
| ___ Lenape | 10 |
| ___ Lenape, Delaware Indian | 27 |
| ___ length (inch or meter) | 26 |
| ___ Leo and the Pharmacists | 27 |
| ___ Leone | 9 |
| ___ Leone, highest of the Lepontine Alps | 40 |
| ___ Leoni, Italian sculptor-medalist | 36 |
| ___ Leppard | 11 |
| ___ Leppard (British heavy metal band) | 38 |
| ___ Leppard (British rockers) | 29 |
| ___ lepton | 10 |
| ___ lepton (physics particle) | 29 |
| ___ lepton (subatomic particle) | 31 |
| ___ Leslie, three-time W.N.B.A. M.V.P. | 38 |
| ___ letter | 10 |
| ___ Letterman (TV talk-show host) | 33 |
| ___ Letterman Racing | 20 |
| ___ letters | 11 |
| ___ lettre (literally) | 22 |
| ___ lettuce | 11 |
| ___ lettuce (romaine) | 21 |
| ___ Lev, Potok hero | 19 |
| ___ Levant, French island | 25 |
| ___ Levant, memorable pianist | 29 |
| ___ Levant, one of the Hyères | 32 |
| ___ level | 9 |
| ___ Levenson (vixen on "The Office") | 46 |
| ___ Levi (Yves Montand) | 23 |
| ___ Levy, Cohan's first wife | 32 |
| ___ Levy, four-time Super Bowl coach for Buffalo | 48 |
| ___ Lewis and the News | 22 |
| ___ Lewis with the 2008 #1 hit "Bleeding Love" | 56 |
| ___ Lib | 7 |
| ___ liberales (studies at universidades) | 40 |
| ___ liberation movement | 23 |
| ___ Liberty | 11 |
| ___ liberum | 11 |
| ___ liberum (open sea) | 22 |
| ___ library | 11 |
| ___ libre | 9 |
| ___ libre (cocktail) | 20 |
| ___ libre (free verse) | 22 |
| ___ libre (French poetic style) | 31 |
| ___ libre (poetry style) | 24 |
| ___ libre (rum drink) | 21 |
| ___ libre, rum drink | 20 |
| ___ lie | 7 |