| ___ Jordan, who wrote "The Crying Game" | 49 |
| ___ jour (dish of the day, in French) | 37 |
| ___ Jr. (acting son, familiarly) | 32 |
| ___ Jr., West Coast hamburger chain | 35 |
| ___ Juan, capital of Puerto Rico | 32 |
| ___ Julia of "The Addams Family" | 42 |
| ___ jure (in one's own right) | 33 |
| ___ juris (in one's own right) | 34 |
| ___ juris (in one's own right): Lat. | 40 |
| ___ Kadabra (DC Comics foe of the Flash) | 40 |
| ___ Kadabra, The Flash's foe | 32 |
| ___ Kadiddlehopper (Red Skelton character) | 42 |
| ___ Kadiddlehopper, old TV hayseed | 34 |
| ___ Kadiddlehopper, Red Skelton character | 41 |
| ___ Kaepernick, Super Bowl XLVII QB for the 49ers | 49 |
| ___ Kagan, Obama nominee to the Supreme Court | 45 |
| ___ Kane (Susan Lucci role for over 40 years) | 45 |
| ___ Kane of "All My Children" | 39 |
| ___ Kane, Susan Lucci's Emmy-winning role | 45 |
| ___ kanfoth, Orthodox Jewish male's garb | 44 |
| ___ Karate (old brand of aftershave) | 36 |
| ___ Kádár, 1950s-'80s Hungarian leader | 48 |
| ___ Kebab (charcoal-grilled meat skewer) | 40 |
| ___ Keene (pseudonym associated with Nancy Drew) | 48 |
| ___ Kefauver, 1956 vice-presidential candidate | 46 |
| ___ Kemal, Turkey's first president | 39 |
| ___ Kennedy Smith (sister of J.F.K.) | 36 |
| ___ Kenobi of "Star Wars" | 35 |
| ___ Khalifa (world's tallest building) | 42 |
| ___ Khamenei (supreme leader of Iran) | 37 |
| ___ Khan ("The Jungle Book" tiger) | 44 |
| ___ Khan (tiger in "The Jungle Book") | 47 |
| ___ Khan (villain in "The Jungle Book") | 49 |
| ___ kid (angsty high-school type) | 33 |
| ___ King ("Stand By Me" singer) | 41 |
| ___ King (character on "The Avengers") | 48 |
| ___ king (how chicken might be served) | 38 |
| ___ Kingman, noted watercolorist | 32 |
| ___ Kitchen (organic food company) | 34 |
| ___ Kitchen (organic frozen food company) | 41 |
| ___ Kooser, former U.S. poet laureate | 37 |
| ___ Korbut, 1972 Olympic gymnastic sensation | 44 |
| ___ Korbut, 1972 Olympic gymnastics star | 40 |
| ___ Korbut, 1972 Soviet gymnastics star | 39 |
| ___ Kosh B'Gosh (kids' clothing line) | 45 |
| ___ Koussi, Chad's highest peak | 35 |
| ___ Krabappel of "The Simpsons" | 41 |
| ___ Krabappel, Bart Simpson's teacher | 41 |
| ___ Kristen of "Ryan's Hope" | 42 |
| ___ l'Évêque (strong cheese) | 39 |
| ___ l'oeil (optical illusion) | 33 |
| ___ l'oeil (visual deception in paintings) | 46 |
| ___ l'oeil (visual deception) | 33 |
| ___ la Douce (Shirley MacLaine role) | 36 |
| ___ Laënnec, inventor of the stethoscope | 43 |
| ___ Laboratories (Chicago pharmaceutical company) | 49 |
| ___ Lachaise (Paris's largest cemetery) | 43 |
| ___ Lackawanna (bygone railroad) | 32 |
| ___ Lacs National Wildlife Refuge | 33 |
| ___ Lady (decades-old commercial creation) | 42 |
| ___ Lady (Kennedy assassination figure) | 39 |
| ___ Lake (one of New York's Finger Lakes) | 45 |
| ___ land (place for out-of-touch types) | 39 |
| ___ land (where unreality reigns supreme) | 41 |
| ___ Landing (part of Philadelphia) | 34 |
| ___ lane (carpoolers' convenience) | 38 |
| ___ lane (carpoolers' place on the highway) | 47 |
| ___ Lane (Daily Planet employee) | 32 |
| ___ lane (where carpoolers drive) | 33 |
| ___ Lane (where the Muffin Man lives) | 37 |
| ___ Lane, home of London's Theatre Royal | 44 |
| ___ Lang ("Smallville" role) | 38 |
| ___ Lang (Superboy's girlfriend) | 36 |
| ___ Lang, Superboy's girlfriend | 35 |
| ___ Laredo, Mexico, on the Rio Grande | 37 |
| ___ Largo, "Thunderball" villain | 42 |
| ___ Lars (Luke Skywalker's "uncle") | 49 |
| ___ Latin (record label offshoot) | 33 |
| ___ Lauro (hijacked ship of 1985) | 33 |
| ___ Lavoisier, the Father of Modern Chemistry | 45 |
| ___ law (acronymic 1970 measure) | 32 |
| ___ Law (basic law of current flow) | 35 |
| ___ law (early Frankish legal code) | 35 |
| ___ law (early Germanic legal code) | 35 |
| ___ law (old Germanic legal code) | 33 |
| ___ law (principle of electricity) | 34 |
| ___ Lawn (James Monroe's home) | 34 |
| ___ Lawn-Highland (James MonroeÂ’s estate) | 45 |
| ___ Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron | 39 |
| ___ Layden (Rockne "horseman") | 40 |
| ___ layer (upper atmosphere part) | 33 |
| ___ Lazarus, "Miss Peach" cartoonist | 46 |
| ___ Leader, South Dakota's largest newspaper | 48 |
| ___ leaf (nature's codpiece) | 32 |
| ___ League (Middle Eastern alliance) | 36 |
| ___ League (Middle Eastern group) | 33 |
| ___ León (Mexican state bordering Texas) | 43 |
| ___ Lee (actress and former game show co-host) | 46 |
| ___ Lee Corp. (Fortune 500 company) | 35 |
| ___ Lee Gifford (former Regis Philbin cohort) | 45 |