| Latex-based padding material | 28 |
| Latex restaurant bill? | 22 |
| Latest, most modern thing | 25 |
| Latest list for shoppers | 24 |
| Latest fashions on the racks | 28 |
| Latest "in" fashion | 29 |
| Lateral or state starter | 24 |
| Lateral or cycle lead-in | 24 |
| Lateral or lingual preceder | 29 |
| Lateral measure: Abbr. | 22 |
| Later's alternative | 23 |
| Later years, poetically | 23 |
| Later years, in former days | 27 |
| Later afterthought: Abbr. | 25 |
| Latent source of danger | 23 |
| Latent hereditary element | 25 |
| Lateen-rigged sailing vessel | 28 |
| Lateen-rigged sailboat | 22 |
| Latecomer's request | 23 |
| Latecomer's penalty | 23 |
| Latecomer to a theater, maybe | 29 |
| Late-winter celebrants? | 23 |
| Late-week cube farm cry | 23 |
| Late-summer zodiac sign | 23 |
| Late-spring commemoration | 25 |
| Late-spring cold spells | 23 |
| Late-night wars participant | 27 |
| Late-night TV's Hall | 24 |
| Late-night TV returnee | 22 |
| Late-night TV pioneer Jack | 26 |
| Late-night TV nickname | 22 |
| Late-night TV host Jay | 22 |
| Late-night TV fare since 1975 | 29 |
| Late-night talk show feature | 28 |
| Late-night talk pioneer Jack | 28 |
| Late-night staple, casually | 27 |
| Late-night snack attack | 23 |
| Late-night show on TBS | 22 |
| Late-night pioneer Johnny | 25 |
| Late-night laugh maker | 22 |
| Late-night joke accenter | 24 |
| Late-night Jay's family | 27 |
| Late-night host O'Brien | 27 |
| Late-night host Meyers | 22 |
| Late-night host Kilborn | 23 |
| Late-night host and family | 26 |
| Late-night homework need | 24 |
| Late-night fridge visits | 24 |
| Late-night delivery man? | 24 |
| Late-night dance locale? | 24 |
| Late-night comic Jimmy | 22 |
| Late-night coffee, maybe | 24 |
| Late-night bandleader Max | 25 |
| Late-night announcer Hall | 25 |
| Late-late-show offering | 23 |
| Late-late-night offering | 24 |
| Late-inning pitching, maybe | 27 |
| Late-inning achievement | 23 |
| Late-fall door adornment | 24 |
| Late-braking development? | 25 |
| Late-blooming perennial | 23 |
| Late-arriving TV detective? | 27 |
| Late-arriving disco singer? | 27 |
| Late-arriving actor of old? | 27 |
| Late-afternoon traffic, e.g. | 28 |
| Late-60's fashion item | 26 |
| Late-'70s FBI sting | 23 |
| Late, on a report card | 22 |
| Late, great entertainer | 23 |
| Late, as a video store rental | 29 |
| Late, as a library book | 23 |
| Late Wu-Tang member, briefly | 28 |
| Late wrestling icon Albano | 26 |
| Late TV exec's first name | 29 |
| Late time in a nursery rhyme | 28 |
| Late thumb-turning critic | 25 |
| Late tennis V.I.P. Arthur | 25 |
| Late tennis star Arthur | 23 |
| Late start at work, maybe | 25 |
| Late stand-up comic Richard | 27 |
| Late stand-up comedian Myron | 28 |
| Late stage actress Hagen | 24 |
| Late Soviet diplomat Dobrynin | 29 |
| Late sixth-century year | 23 |
| Late singer Marvin et al. | 25 |
| Late Sex Pistol Vicious | 23 |
| Late Senator from N.C. | 22 |
| Late satirical cartoonist | 25 |
| Late ruler Mobotu ___ Seko | 26 |
| Late rock recluse Barrett | 25 |
| Late rock guitarist Duane | 25 |
| Late returning from furlough | 28 |
| Late R&B singer ___ Marie | 29 |
| Late Princess of Wales | 22 |
| Late pop singer Elliot | 22 |
| Late playwright Wasserstein | 27 |
| Late photographer Adams | 23 |
| Late philanthropist Joan | 24 |
| Late percussion great Puente | 28 |
| Late opponent of apartheid | 26 |