| ___ Longstocking (children's story character) | 49 |
| ___ Longoria, 2008 A.L. Rookie of the Year | 42 |
| ___ Longa, where Romulus and Remus were born | 44 |
| ___ Longa, city of ancient Latium | 33 |
| ___ Longa, birthplace of Romulus and Remus | 42 |
| ___ Longa (birthplace of Romulus and Remus) | 43 |
| ___ Longa (ancient city southeast of Rome) | 42 |
| ___ Long, Union general in the Civil War | 40 |
| ___ Long, Louisiana senator, 1948-87 | 36 |
| ___ Lonely Boys (2004 Grammy winners) | 37 |
| ___ London ("What Not to Wear" co-host) | 49 |
| ___ Loeveberg, Norwegian soprano | 32 |
| ___ loco (in one's own place) | 33 |
| ___ Locks (Sault Ste. Marie Canal) | 34 |
| ___ Locks (Great Lakes connectors) | 34 |
| ___ Lobos ("La Bamba" group) | 38 |
| ___ Lobos ("La Bamba" band) | 37 |
| ___ Lobos (''La Bamba'' group) | 46 |
| ___ loading (marathoner's prep) | 35 |
| ___ loading (marathon runner's strategy) | 44 |
| ___ lo tanto (therefore, in Spain) | 34 |
| ___ Lo Green ("Fuck You" singer) | 42 |
| ___ Lo Green ("Fuck You!" singer) | 43 |
| ___ living (bring home the bacon) | 33 |
| ___ liver (delicacy in a butcher shop) | 38 |
| ___ Little, "The Wire" gangster | 41 |
| ___ Little, "The Wire" antihero | 41 |
| ___ Little ("The Wire" character) | 43 |
| ___ List: feature of Winfrey's magazine | 43 |
| ___ Lions (Big Ten team from the Keystone State) | 48 |
| ___ Lion (beast in one of Hercules' labors) | 47 |
| ___ Lingus (Ireland's national airline) | 43 |
| ___ Lingus (carrier based in Dublin) | 36 |
| ___ linguae (slip of the tongue) | 32 |
| ___ Ling, Chinese mountain range | 32 |
| ___ lines (mystical links of ancient monuments) | 47 |
| ___ line (major axis of an elliptical orbit) | 44 |
| ___ Line (international boundary) | 33 |
| ___ line (elaborate barrier system) | 35 |
| ___ Lindstrom (Ingrid Bergman's daughter) | 45 |
| ___ Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking's creator | 46 |
| ___ Lindgren, creator of Pippi Longstocking | 43 |
| ___ Linda, Calif. (Nixon's birthplace) | 42 |
| ___ Linda, CA (Nixon Library site) | 34 |
| ___ lily (Utah's state flower) | 34 |
| ___ Lily (Utah Native Plant Society newsletter) | 47 |
| ___ lily (Beehive State bloomer) | 32 |
| ___ Lilly and Company (pharmaceutical giant) | 44 |
| ___ Lilly and Co. (maker of Prozac) | 35 |
| ___ Lilly (pharmaceutical giant) | 32 |
| ___ light (movie maker's lamp) | 34 |
| ___ light (arc lamp used in moviemaking) | 40 |
| ___ Life ("Porgy and Bess" character) | 47 |
| ___ liberales (studies at universidades) | 40 |
| ___ Levy, four-time Super Bowl coach for Buffalo | 48 |
| ___ Levy, Cohan's first wife | 32 |
| ___ Levenson (vixen on "The Office") | 46 |
| ___ Levant, one of the Hyères | 32 |
| ___ Letterman (TV talk-show host) | 33 |
| ___ Leslie, three-time W.N.B.A. M.V.P. | 38 |
| ___ Leppard (British heavy metal band) | 38 |
| ___ Leoni, Italian sculptor-medalist | 36 |
| ___ Leone, highest of the Lepontine Alps | 40 |
| ___ Lemon of "30 Rock" | 32 |
| ___ Lemon ("30 Rock" role) | 36 |
| ___ Lemaris, early love of Superman | 35 |
| ___ Lee, who lived in a kingdom by the sea | 42 |
| ___ Lee Parks, civil-rights activist | 36 |
| ___ Lee of "Funny Face" | 33 |
| ___ Lee Nolin of "Baywatch" | 37 |
| ___ Lee Gifford (former Regis Philbin cohort) | 45 |
| ___ Lee Corp. (Fortune 500 company) | 35 |
| ___ Lee (actress and former game show co-host) | 46 |
| ___ León (Mexican state bordering Texas) | 43 |
| ___ League (Middle Eastern group) | 33 |
| ___ League (Middle Eastern alliance) | 36 |
| ___ leaf (nature's codpiece) | 32 |
| ___ Leader, South Dakota's largest newspaper | 48 |
| ___ Lazarus, "Miss Peach" cartoonist | 46 |
| ___ layer (upper atmosphere part) | 33 |
| ___ Layden (Rockne "horseman") | 40 |
| ___ Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron | 39 |
| ___ Lawn-Highland (James MonroeÂ’s estate) | 45 |
| ___ Lawn (James Monroe's home) | 34 |
| ___ law (principle of electricity) | 34 |
| ___ law (old Germanic legal code) | 33 |
| ___ law (early Germanic legal code) | 35 |
| ___ law (early Frankish legal code) | 35 |
| ___ Law (basic law of current flow) | 35 |
| ___ law (acronymic 1970 measure) | 32 |
| ___ Lavoisier, the Father of Modern Chemistry | 45 |
| ___ Lauro (hijacked ship of 1985) | 33 |
| ___ Latin (record label offshoot) | 33 |
| ___ Lars (Luke Skywalker's "uncle") | 49 |
| ___ Largo, "Thunderball" villain | 42 |
| ___ Laredo, Mexico, on the Rio Grande | 37 |
| ___ Lang, Superboy's girlfriend | 35 |
| ___ Lang (Superboy's girlfriend) | 36 |
| ___ Lang ("Smallville" role) | 38 |
| ___ Lane, home of London's Theatre Royal | 44 |