| ___ longue | 10 |
| ___ longue (daybed) | 19 |
| ___ Loompa (Wonka chocolate factory worker) | 43 |
| ___ Loompas (Wonka employees) | 29 |
| ___ loop (skater's jump) | 28 |
| ___ loop (skating move) | 23 |
| ___ Loops | 9 |
| ___ Loops (breakfast cereal brand) | 34 |
| ___ loose (free) | 16 |
| ___ Lopez (chess gambit) | 24 |
| ___ Lopez (chess opening) | 25 |
| ___ Lopez, singer | 17 |
| ___ Lor-Van, Superman's biological mother | 45 |
| ___ Lord's Prayer | 21 |
| ___ Lorenzo | 11 |
| ___ Lorenzo (country in "Cat's Cradle") | 53 |
| ___ Lorenzo, Calif. | 19 |
| ___ Lorraine | 12 |
| ___ lose (be liable) | 20 |
| ___ loss | 8 |
| ___ loss (baffled) | 18 |
| ___ loss (befuddled) | 20 |
| ___ loss (bewildered) | 21 |
| ___ loss (flummoxed) | 20 |
| ___ loss (perplexed) | 20 |
| ___ loss (puzzled) | 18 |
| ___ loss for words | 18 |
| ___ lost (no hope) | 18 |
| ___ lot (few) | 13 |
| ___ lot (gorge) | 15 |
| ___ lot (gorged oneself) | 24 |
| ___ lot (is telling) | 20 |
| ___ lot (very little) | 21 |
| ___ lot (was telling) | 21 |
| ___ louder | 10 |
| ___ Louise Huxtable | 19 |
| ___ Louise of "Gilligan's Island" | 47 |
| ___ lounge | 10 |
| ___ loup | 8 |
| ___ love (flighty one) | 22 |
| ___ Lovegood (friend of Harry Potter) | 37 |
| ___ Lovelace, computer pioneer | 30 |
| ___ Lovelace, computer programming pioneer | 42 |
| ___ Loves Jezebel | 17 |
| ___ loves ya, baby? | 19 |
| ___ Loves You (kids' toy) | 29 |
| ___ low | 7 |
| ___ low (hide out) | 18 |
| ___ low (hides out) | 19 |
| ___ low profile | 15 |
| ___ Low, N.Y.C. mayor: 1901–3 | 36 |
| ___ Lowell, title character in a 1980's sitcom | 50 |
| ___ Lowry, children's writer | 32 |
| ___ LuÃs | 11 |
| ___ LuÃs, Brazil | 19 |
| ___ Lucano, Italian town | 24 |
| ___ Lucia Cortez, "Lost" castaway | 43 |
| ___ Luck | 8 |
| ___ luck (took chances) | 23 |
| ___ luego | 9 |
| ___ luego (good-by) | 19 |
| ___ Luirc, County Cork town | 27 |
| ___ Luis Obispo | 15 |
| ___ Lumpur | 10 |
| ___ Lumpur, Malaysia | 20 |
| ___ Lumumba, Congo's first P.M. | 35 |
| ___ Lunas, N.M. | 15 |
| ___ Lunas, New Mexico | 21 |
| ___ lunch | 9 |
| ___ lunch (note on an office door) | 34 |
| ___ lunch (quits working to eat) | 32 |
| ___ LUNCH (store sign) | 22 |
| ___ Lund | 8 |
| ___ Lund of "Casablanca" | 34 |
| ___ Lung (villainous snow leopard in "Kung Fu Panda") | 63 |
| ___ Lung, Chinese emperor: 18th century | 39 |
| ___ Lunn | 8 |
| ___ Lunn (tea cake) | 19 |
| ___ Lupin | 9 |
| ___ Lupin, Leblanc character | 28 |
| ___ Lupin, Leblanc sleuth | 25 |
| ___ Lupin, the Prince of Thieves | 32 |
| ___ Luthor of "Superman" | 34 |
| ___ Luthor, of "Superman" | 35 |
| ___ luxury | 10 |
| ___ Lyman & His California Orchestra, popular 1920s-'40s band | 69 |
| ___ Lynne | 9 |
| ___ Lysacek, 2010 Olympic figure skating gold medalist | 54 |
| ___ Ma Kettle | 13 |
| ___ Ma, noted cellist | 21 |
| ___ Maar (Picasso mistress and subject) | 39 |
| ___ Maar (Picasso subject) | 26 |
| ___ Maar (Picasso's muse) | 29 |
| ___ Maar, Picasso subject | 25 |
| ___ Maarten (Caribbean island) | 30 |
| ___ Maass, nurse on a 13¢ stamp | 34 |
| ___ mañana | 13 |
| ___ Mac (eschews a PC) | 22 |
| ___ macabre | 11 |
| ___ macchiato | 13 |