| Los Angeles neighborhood that's the former site of an Edgar Rice Burroughs ranch | 84 |
| Lorin __, who succeeded Szell as the Cleveland Orchestra's music director | 77 |
| Loretta who sang "Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)" | 99 |
| Lord Nelson's famous Trafalgar quote, "England expects that every man will ___" | 93 |
| Loose collection of influential corporations from Alf's home planet? | 72 |
| Looks proudly [get xword deals by signing up for our free news list! - avxwords.com] | 84 |
| Longtime Red Sox announcer Martin whose signature call was "Mercy!" | 77 |
| Longtime New York chef and writer who hosted the first food program on TV | 73 |
| Longtime G.E. chief with the best seller "Jack: Straight From the Gut" | 80 |
| Longtime coach of the University of Chicago who was a charter member of the College Football Hall of Fame | 105 |
| Longtime bar band that had a cameo on "The Simpsons" episode "Take My Wife, Sleaze" | 103 |
| Longfellow classic containing a code that is represented within the answers to the asterisked Down clues | 104 |
| Long-running western anthology, the only American TV series with its three initials | 83 |
| Long-running game show with a feature spelled out clockwise by this puzzle's circled letters | 96 |
| Long-extinct German dialect of which the epic poem "The Heliand" is the only known sample | 99 |
| Long-distance runner Ron once married to long-distance runner Mary Decker | 73 |
| Long rant about how the captain was mean, the shanties sucked, and everyone got scurvy? | 87 |
| Lone Star beverage intended to rival baked Alaska in popularity but which never caught on? | 90 |
| London-based dubstep artist whose name is pronounced like a math operation | 74 |
| London venue where plays based on "Make 'Em Say Uhh!" and "Mr. Ice Cream Man" are performed? | 116 |
| Lois Lane player of early TV, whose first name is a hint to this puzzle's theme | 83 |
| Location of what to ditch from all long solutions (and from Across/Down hints) for this all to work | 99 |
| Location of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World | 87 |
| Locale of St. Catherine's Monastery, said to be the world's oldest working monastery | 92 |
| Locale of a John McCain statue that calls him a "famous air pirate" | 77 |
| Locale called Minnahannock by the Algonquin Indians, bought by the Dutch in 1637 | 80 |
| Loaf reliably available at cousin Lotte's house when we used to go up to Cleveland for brunch | 97 |
| Lizzie Borden's blows – "Easy Pieces" ÷ proverbial crowd = | 82 |
| Live video of the 2008 presidential runner-up going about his daily life? | 73 |
| Little ___ Burdette (character in the “Smokey and the Bandit” movies) | 77 |
| Little ___ (nickname for the Russian neighborhood of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn) | 78 |
| Little ones who, they say, are made up of the ends of this puzzle's four longest entries | 92 |
| Literary series with "Monster Blood" and "Night of the Living Dummies" | 90 |
| Literary reply to "What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough" | 87 |
| Literary experimentalist Georges with "Life: A User's Manual" | 75 |
| Literary character whose name is said to mean "laughing water" | 72 |
| Literary character whose last words are "Thus, I give up the spear!" | 78 |
| Literary character whose last words are "The horror! The horror!" | 75 |
| Literary character who's "always good-tempered" and "not very clever" | 93 |
| Literary character who says "I'll chase him round Good Hope" | 74 |
| Literary character who says "Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt!" | 91 |
| Literary character who says "For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee" | 90 |
| Literary character who asks "Would you, could you, in the dark?" | 74 |
| Literary character played in film by Charles Laughton, Anthony Perkins and Geoffrey Rush | 88 |
| Literary captain who says "It's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one" | 111 |
| Literary captain who says "I'd strike the sun if it insulted me" | 78 |
| Literary captain who says "I am not what you call a civilized man!" | 77 |
| List that includes "full," "round" and "wide"? | 76 |
| Lip-synched, and word that can follow the first word in answers to asterisked clues | 83 |
| Lion's combatant for the crown, in "Through the Looking-Glass" | 76 |
| Linguistic term for a word that's almost the same as another word, like "affect" and "effect" | 117 |
| Line showing the relationship between an interest rate and maturity date | 72 |
| Line of greeting cards billed as "a tiny little division of Hallmark" | 79 |
| Line from 1989's "Dead Pesto Society" about grabbing ten cents? | 77 |
| Lindsay who tied with herself for a Worst Actress Razzie by playing two roles | 77 |
| Lindsay nominated for two "Worst Actress" Razzie Awards in 2007 for two roles in the same movie | 105 |
| Lindsay Lohan's role in "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" | 76 |
| Lincoln's description of pre-Civil War America ... or a hint to the circled letters | 87 |
| Lima alternative in the grocery aisle (sorry about this fill, I was sure I could fit [colander alternative in the kitchen] here) | 128 |
| Likely 2008 playoff team in both the American and National leagues, on the scoreboard | 85 |
| Like you after drinking Red Bull, according to commercials, in scientific terms | 79 |
| Like this puzzle's theme, to solvers concerned with puzzle symmetry? | 72 |
| Like the Wicked Witch of the West at the end of "The Wizard of Oz" | 76 |
| Like the upcoming elections, and a hint to the four longest Across answers | 74 |
| Like the Oscars ... or the answers to this puzzle's seven asterisked clues? | 79 |
| Like the order of the letters in the first words of the starred entries, before being shaken up | 95 |
| Like the NCAA basketball tournament's opening game between the two last-seeded teams | 88 |
| Like the maximum-height New York City apartment building that's not required to have a fire evacuation plan | 111 |
| Like the Jordan River, according to "Michael Row the Boat Ashore" | 75 |
| Like the haircut I just got from this old Polish dude that then I had to fix | 76 |
| Like the answers to the 10 asterisked clues, more often than any other English words, according to a 1999 study | 111 |
| Like St. Nick's "little mouth," in "The Night Before Christmas" | 87 |
| Like some elite U.S. athletes (or an apt alternate title for this puzzle) | 73 |
| Like snide remarks from old Russian despots? (#4 in David Yale's "Pun Enchanted Evenings") | 104 |
| Like pronouns such as "myself" which refer back to the subject of the clause | 86 |
| Like people in a group hug, presumably (and a group hug involving Tributes #7, #8, and #11) | 91 |
| Like one wearing a studded belt, black wristbands and black-rimmed glasses | 74 |
| Like Michelangelo's "David" or Rodin's "The Thinker" | 80 |
| Like fish for fish & chips -- or this puzzle's four theme entries | 73 |
| Like fewer and fewer children, as from diseases like whooping cough (grrrr...) | 78 |
| Like each answer in this puzzle - also each word in each clue - in length | 73 |
| Like dictionaries without a word meaning "raisable castle door"? | 74 |
| Like computer operating systems that allow many people to work simultaneously | 77 |
| Like an insufferable, privileged sophomore who hates everyone ... and is melodramatic about it | 94 |
| Like a subtitled black-and-white movie in which everyone smokes and wears sunglasses | 84 |
| Like a "Better active today than radioactive tomorrow" sentiment | 74 |
| Like 49.1 pecent of the population, according to a 2000 report by the U.S. Census Bureau | 88 |
| Lifeline removed from the latest season of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" | 84 |
| LIEUT: "He says you're ___." DESIGNER: "That's not true!" | 85 |
| License plate (and character played by Michael Douglas) in "Falling Down" | 83 |
| Librettist who rhymed "a lot o' news" with "hypotenuse" | 79 |
| Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" word for "scratch, dog-style" | 83 |
| Letters with ''messenger'' or ''transfer'' | 74 |
| Letters for the names "buried" in this puzzle's theme answers | 75 |
| Letters automatically displayed in the "Wheel of Fortune" bonus round | 79 |
| Letters after "messenger," "ribosomal" or "transfer" | 82 |
| Letter that, as it appears in the middle of this grid, can precede the first words of the starred entries | 105 |
| Letter that some feel should have its own day, rather than pi having Pi Day | 75 |
| Letter appearing only in down answers; its opposite appears only in across answers | 82 |
| Letter abbr. that tells the reader there's something else in the envelope | 77 |