| American lake | 13 |
| American lake every constructor is sick of cluing, and "American lake" was probably enough to give it to you, so screw it | 131 |
| American landscape painter | 26 |
| American landscape painter George | 33 |
| American landscapist | 20 |
| American language | 17 |
| American larch | 14 |
| American larch: Var. | 20 |
| American leader? | 16 |
| American League "bird" | 32 |
| American League bird | 20 |
| American League club | 20 |
| American League color line breaker | 34 |
| American League constituent | 27 |
| American League division | 24 |
| American League first basemen Millar and Youkilis | 49 |
| American league M.V.P.: 1953 | 28 |
| American League M.V.P.: 1976 | 28 |
| American League MVP between Harmon and Vida | 43 |
| American League MVP of 1923 | 27 |
| American League or National League division | 43 |
| American League player, as of 2013 | 34 |
| American League team | 20 |
| American Leaguer | 16 |
| American Leaguer since '54 | 30 |
| American Leaguer since '61 | 30 |
| American Leaguer since 1954 | 27 |
| American Leaguer since 2013 | 27 |
| American Leaguers | 17 |
| American Leaguers since 2013 | 28 |
| American Legion member | 22 |
| American Legion members | 23 |
| American Legion members, briefly | 32 |
| American Legion place | 21 |
| American leopard | 16 |
| American listing | 16 |
| American Lit., e.g. | 19 |
| American lithographer | 21 |
| American living abroad, for short | 33 |
| American lizard | 15 |
| American Lung Assn. recommendation | 34 |
| American magazine debut of 1913 | 31 |
| American magazine founded in France | 35 |
| American mail org. | 18 |
| American majority | 17 |
| American man of letters | 23 |
| American Marconi acquirer | 25 |
| American marmot | 15 |
| American marsupial | 18 |
| American marsupial, commonly | 28 |
| American marten | 15 |
| American master of the macabre | 30 |
| American merger of 2001 | 23 |
| American mil. body | 18 |
| American mil. branch | 20 |
| American mil. fliers | 20 |
| American mil. wing | 18 |
| American military branch: Abbr. | 31 |
| American milkwort | 17 |
| American missile | 16 |
| American mole? | 14 |
| American morning glory | 22 |
| American moths | 14 |
| American muralist | 17 |
| American music form | 19 |
| American Music Institute, for short | 35 |
| American naturalist and explorer | 32 |
| American naturalist and explorer William | 40 |
| American naturalist John | 24 |
| American naturalization test subject | 36 |
| American naval officer: 1806–63 | 38 |
| American news execs' org. | 29 |
| American newspaper publisher of note | 36 |
| American Nobel author | 21 |
| American novelist | 17 |
| American novelist (1909-1955) | 29 |
| American novelist Cather | 24 |
| American novelist Hawthorne | 27 |
| American novelist Joyce Carol | 29 |
| American novelist?film critic | 29 |
| American of Japanese ancestry | 29 |
| American of Japanese birth | 26 |
| American of Japanese descent | 28 |
| American of Japanese heritage | 29 |
| American of Japanese parents | 28 |
| American of note | 16 |
| American opening | 16 |
| American option | 15 |
| American or Canadian beverages | 30 |
| American or Continental | 23 |
| American or Delta | 17 |
| American or Delta route | 23 |
| American or Foreign | 19 |
| American or Foreign follower | 28 |
| American or National | 20 |
| American or Swiss | 17 |
| American or Western | 19 |
| American or Western follower | 28 |
| American or World follower, in school | 37 |
| American orator: 1725–83 | 31 |