| A master of the Masters | 23 |
| A Massachusetts symbol | 22 |
| A mass of stratified rock | 25 |
| A masked competitor waves it | 28 |
| A Mascagni opera, for short | 27 |
| A Mary O'Hara horse | 23 |
| A marquis outranks him | 22 |
| A Margaret Mead subject | 23 |
| A Manipuri dance drama | 22 |
| A man's enunciation | 23 |
| A man goes for a walk and ... | 29 |
| A man from Amman, e.g. | 22 |
| A majority of Israelis | 22 |
| A majority of August births | 27 |
| A major U.S. broadcaster | 24 |
| A major scale component | 23 |
| A mail carrier has one: Abbr. | 29 |
| A magician may use one | 22 |
| A Madrileña's title | 26 |
| A machine load floating? | 24 |
| A lump on a battery part? | 25 |
| A lumberjack, at times | 22 |
| A Loy of unalloyed delight | 26 |
| A low one is best, for short | 28 |
| A low digit's homophone | 27 |
| A lover of Elizabeth I | 22 |
| A love of kitsch, e.g. | 22 |
| A lot of what makes you you | 27 |
| A lot of the time, in poetry | 28 |
| A lot of talk show talk | 23 |
| A lot of similar bodies, say? | 29 |
| A lot of online content | 23 |
| A lot of oil moves through it | 29 |
| A lot of money, casually | 24 |
| A lot of mil. personnel | 23 |
| A lot of it is first-class | 26 |
| A lot of H.S. juniors take it | 29 |
| A lot of Eurasia, once: Abbr. | 29 |
| A lot of copy shop business | 27 |
| A lot of cars and trucks | 24 |
| A lot of campaign rhetoric | 26 |
| A lot of a Maine forest | 23 |
| A lot may have a lot of them | 28 |
| A lot bigger than a breadbox | 28 |
| A loser to Joe Louis: 1941 | 26 |
| A loser to Harry in '48 | 27 |
| A Los Angeles N.F.L. team | 25 |
| A lord in "Macbeth" | 29 |
| A loose one can trip you up | 27 |
| A loop doesn't have any | 27 |
| A look might precede one | 24 |
| A look at Loren, usually | 24 |
| A long, long, long time | 23 |
| A long time in the past | 23 |
| A long time in México | 24 |
| A long one may have legs | 24 |
| A lonely place, so they say | 27 |
| A lode off one's mine? | 26 |
| A locale for a physics course | 29 |
| A load off one's mine? | 26 |
| A live or a nine, e.g. | 22 |
| A little, in sheet music | 24 |
| A little, colloquially | 22 |
| A little worse than O.K. | 24 |
| A Little with a lot of voices | 29 |
| A little while, to Burns | 24 |
| A little teapot has one | 23 |
| A little slower than moderato | 29 |
| A little slow on the git-go | 27 |
| A little short, as of money | 27 |
| A little running water? | 23 |
| A little over two lbs. | 22 |
| A little over three grains | 26 |
| A little over half the world | 28 |
| A little on the slow side | 25 |
| A little on the heavy side | 26 |
| A little of everything | 22 |
| A little of a large lot? | 24 |
| A little more than two cups | 27 |
| A little less than 100% | 23 |
| A little laughter (Var.) | 24 |
| A little high in music class? | 29 |
| A little German number | 22 |
| A little French number | 22 |
| A little for the road? | 22 |
| A little faster than largo | 26 |
| A little bundle of energy | 25 |
| A little bit of trouble? | 24 |
| A little bit of sunshine | 24 |
| A little bit of history | 23 |
| A little bit of haven? | 22 |
| A little bit of everything | 26 |
| A little bigger than med. | 25 |
| A little Biblical misfortune? | 29 |
| A little better than average | 28 |
| A little before the hour | 24 |
| A little after, timewise | 24 |
| A little above average | 22 |
| A literary incongruity | 22 |
| A lion, but not a giraffe | 25 |