| ___ Lane (where the Muffin Man lives) | 37 |
| ___ lane (where carpoolers drive) | 33 |
| ___ Lane (Daily Planet employee) | 32 |
| ___ lane (carpoolers' place on the highway) | 47 |
| ___ lane (carpoolers' convenience) | 38 |
| ___ Landing (part of Philadelphia) | 34 |
| ___ land (where unreality reigns supreme) | 41 |
| ___ land (place for out-of-touch types) | 39 |
| ___ Lake (one of New York's Finger Lakes) | 45 |
| ___ Lady (Kennedy assassination figure) | 39 |
| ___ Lady (decades-old commercial creation) | 42 |
| ___ Lacs National Wildlife Refuge | 33 |
| ___ Lackawanna (bygone railroad) | 32 |
| ___ Lachaise (Paris's largest cemetery) | 43 |
| ___ Laboratories (Chicago pharmaceutical company) | 49 |
| ___ Laënnec, inventor of the stethoscope | 43 |
| ___ la Douce (Shirley MacLaine role) | 36 |
| ___ l'oeil (visual deception) | 33 |
| ___ l'oeil (visual deception in paintings) | 46 |
| ___ l'oeil (optical illusion) | 33 |
| ___ l'Évêque (strong cheese) | 39 |
| ___ Kristen of "Ryan's Hope" | 42 |
| ___ Krabappel, Bart Simpson's teacher | 41 |
| ___ Krabappel of "The Simpsons" | 41 |
| ___ Koussi, Chad's highest peak | 35 |
| ___ Kosh B'Gosh (kids' clothing line) | 45 |
| ___ Korbut, 1972 Soviet gymnastics star | 39 |
| ___ Korbut, 1972 Olympic gymnastics star | 40 |
| ___ Korbut, 1972 Olympic gymnastic sensation | 44 |
| ___ Kooser, former U.S. poet laureate | 37 |
| ___ Kitchen (organic frozen food company) | 41 |
| ___ Kitchen (organic food company) | 34 |
| ___ Kingman, noted watercolorist | 32 |
| ___ king (how chicken might be served) | 38 |
| ___ King (character on "The Avengers") | 48 |
| ___ King ("Stand By Me" singer) | 41 |
| ___ kid (angsty high-school type) | 33 |
| ___ Khan (villain in "The Jungle Book") | 49 |
| ___ Khan (tiger in "The Jungle Book") | 47 |
| ___ Khan ("The Jungle Book" tiger) | 44 |
| ___ Khamenei (supreme leader of Iran) | 37 |
| ___ Khalifa (world's tallest building) | 42 |
| ___ Kenobi of "Star Wars" | 35 |
| ___ Kennedy Smith (sister of J.F.K.) | 36 |
| ___ Kemal, Turkey's first president | 39 |
| ___ Kefauver, 1956 vice-presidential candidate | 46 |
| ___ Keene (pseudonym associated with Nancy Drew) | 48 |
| ___ Kebab (charcoal-grilled meat skewer) | 40 |
| ___ Kádár, 1950s-'80s Hungarian leader | 48 |
| ___ Karate (old brand of aftershave) | 36 |
| ___ kanfoth, Orthodox Jewish male's garb | 44 |
| ___ Kane, Susan Lucci's Emmy-winning role | 45 |
| ___ Kane of "All My Children" | 39 |
| ___ Kane (Susan Lucci role for over 40 years) | 45 |
| ___ Kagan, Obama nominee to the Supreme Court | 45 |
| ___ Kaepernick, Super Bowl XLVII QB for the 49ers | 49 |
| ___ Kadiddlehopper, Red Skelton character | 41 |
| ___ Kadiddlehopper, old TV hayseed | 34 |
| ___ Kadiddlehopper (Red Skelton character) | 42 |
| ___ Kadabra, The Flash's foe | 32 |
| ___ Kadabra (DC Comics foe of the Flash) | 40 |
| ___ juris (in one's own right): Lat. | 40 |
| ___ juris (in one's own right) | 34 |
| ___ jure (in one's own right) | 33 |
| ___ Julia of "The Addams Family" | 42 |
| ___ Juan, capital of Puerto Rico | 32 |
| ___ Jr., West Coast hamburger chain | 35 |
| ___ Jr. (acting son, familiarly) | 32 |
| ___ jour (dish of the day, in French) | 37 |
| ___ Jordan, who wrote "The Crying Game" | 49 |
| ___ Jordan, real name of the Green Lantern | 42 |
| ___ Jon (women's fashion line) | 34 |
| ___ Jon (women's clothing label) | 36 |
| ___ Jon (women's apparel label) | 35 |
| ___ joint (place to eat, drink, and dance) | 42 |
| ___ Johnston, former fiancé of Bristol Palin | 47 |
| ___ Johnson, 1960 decathlon champ | 33 |
| ___ Johnson of "The NBA on TNT" | 41 |
| ___ John's (Domino's competitor) | 40 |
| ___ Johansson, 1959-60 world heavyweight champion | 49 |
| ___ Joel Osment of "The Sixth Sense" | 46 |
| ___ Joe, killer exposed by Tom Sawyer | 37 |
| ___ Joe, "Tom Sawyer" character | 41 |
| ___ Joe ("Tom Sawyer" character) | 42 |
| ___ Joe ("Huckleberry Finn" character) | 48 |
| ___ João de Meriti (Brazilian city) | 38 |
| ___ Joan Hart of TV's "Sabrina" | 45 |
| ___ Jinx (old comic book character) | 35 |
| ___ Jessy Raphael (TV talk-show host) | 37 |
| ___ Jemison, first black woman in space | 39 |
| ___ Jeeves of P. G. Wodehouse stories | 37 |
| ___ Jeeves (search engine founded in 1996) | 42 |
| ___ Jean (Marilyn's birth name) | 35 |
| ___ Jean (Marilyn Monroe, affectionately) | 41 |
| ___ Jean (Marilyn Monroe's birthname) | 41 |
| ___ Jay Lerner of Lerner & Loewe | 36 |
| ___ Jannings, Best Actor of 1928 | 32 |
| ___ James, singer played by Beyoncé | 38 |
| ___ Jam (Rihanna's record label) | 36 |
| ___ Jam (Eddie Vedder's band) | 33 |