| Legendary criminal played by Treat Williams in a 1981 movie | 59 |
| Legendary group of ancient Israelites exiled by the Assyrians | 61 |
| Legendary Hollywood agent Irving "Swifty" ___ | 55 |
| Legendary Houston rapper who overdosed on "purple drank" | 66 |
| Legendary hybrid creature reportedly spotted in Michigan | 56 |
| Legendary jazz pianist who worked with Tiny Grimes and Slam Stewart | 67 |
| Legendary Mel, baseball's "Little Giant" | 54 |
| Legendary NYC club that's now an expensive clothing boutique | 64 |
| Legendary NYC club whose last concert was Patti Smith | 53 |
| Legendary queen of the Britons immortalized by Shakespeare | 58 |
| Legendary skateboarders chronicled in "Lords of Dogtown" | 66 |
| Legendary slayer of the Minotaur who became king of Athens | 58 |
| Legends of Hollywood stamp honoree between Edward G. and Cary | 61 |
| Legis. introduced into every session of Congress from 1923 to 1970 | 66 |
| Legislation that protects people with impairments: Abbr. | 56 |
| Legislative act that imposes punishment without a trial | 55 |
| Leigh's counterpart in the 1998 version of "Psycho" | 65 |
| Lemony Snicket's count and one of Snoopy's brothers | 59 |
| Lena who played Glinda in the movie version of "The Wiz" | 66 |
| Lenape advocate of Indian unity and resistance, ca. 1760's | 62 |
| Lenders' requirements in lieu of collateral, at times | 57 |
| Length equal to ''the whole'' shebang | 53 |
| Length of a "Godfather" marathon, perhaps? | 52 |
| Lennon's "Double Fantasy" collaborator | 52 |
| Lennon/Ono's "Happy ___ (War Is Over)" | 52 |
| Lenny portrayer on "Laverne & Shirley" | 52 |
| Leo Getz portrayer in the "Lethal Weapon" sequels | 59 |
| Leo Sayers' hit ''When ___ You'' | 52 |
| Leon who won a Pulitzer for his biography of Henry James | 56 |
| Leon who won both a Pulitzer and a National Book Award in 1963 | 62 |
| Leonard and Sheldon's neighbor on "The Big Bang Theory" | 69 |
| Leonard Bernstein called her "The Bible of opera" | 59 |
| Leonard Cohen "Live at the ___ of Wight 1970" | 55 |
| Leonard Nimoy's 2009 "Star Trek" role, e.g. | 57 |
| Leonard's roommate in "The Big Bang Theory" | 57 |
| Leonard's roommate on "The Big Bang Theory" | 57 |
| Leonardo da Vinci's "___ and the Swan" | 52 |
| Leonardo's role in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" | 66 |
| Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael, for short | 57 |
| Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo's OS? | 56 |
| Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Donatello, initially | 56 |
| Leoncavallo opera whose title means "The Clowns" | 58 |
| Leopold's "perfect crime" co-conspirator | 54 |
| Leopold's celebrated murder co-defendant of the 1920's | 62 |
| Lepidopterist's thought while chasing a butterfly? | 54 |
| Leprechaun's book detailing the truth about flounders? | 58 |
| Les Savy ___ (band that's much better live than on records, IMHO) | 69 |
| Leslie Nielsen comedy of 1995 (I don't remember it either) | 62 |
| Leslie's BFF on "Parks and Recreation" | 52 |
| Leslie's love interest on "Parks and Recreation" | 62 |
| Leslie's pal on "Parks and Recreation" | 52 |
| Less frantic in do-it-yourself hooch establishment (10) | 55 |
| Less polite way of saying "no thanks" to offered food | 63 |
| Less than ideal place to be if you need to leave town quickly? | 62 |
| Less Than Jake "The Brightest ___ Has Burned Out" | 59 |
| Lesson sung to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" | 66 |
| Let people know if you're coming to their wedding | 53 |
| Lethal additive to elderberry wine, in a Kesselring black comedy | 64 |
| Letter greeting never read by its intended recipient | 52 |
| Letter than rhymes with the ones just before and after it | 57 |
| Letter that appears twice in the Schrödinger equation | 56 |
| Letter that begins and ends this puzzle's six longest answers | 65 |
| Letter that resembles the "y" of Disney's signature | 65 |
| Letter that rhymes with its preceding and following letter | 58 |
| Letter that's not really at the end of the Greek alphabet | 61 |
| Letter to the editor that might be received immediately | 55 |
| Letter used with theta and phi to represent spherical coordinates | 65 |
| Letterman bit exemplified in the six starred theme entries | 58 |
| Letters after "messenger" or "transfer" | 59 |
| Letters before "Freddie Knuckles" and the like | 56 |
| Letters before Ronald Reagan or Abraham Lincoln, at sea | 55 |
| Letters before Speedwagon (the band) or Speed Wagon (the car) | 61 |
| Letters chanted during a Ryan Lochte race at the Olympics | 57 |
| Letters dropped from six answers "come together" here | 63 |
| Letters following ''E'' at McDonald's? | 58 |
| Letters given in the bonus round of "Wheel of Fortune" | 64 |
| Letters granted automatically on "Wheel of Fortune" | 61 |
| Letters meaning "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews" | 63 |
| Letters on Enos Slaughter's cap on his Hall of Fame plaque | 62 |
| Letters on Lou Brock's cap on his Hall of Fame plaque | 57 |
| Letters on the indexing of all Matador Records releases | 55 |
| Letters on the shirts of the losers of the Miracle on Ice | 57 |
| Letters sometimes given in ''Wheel of Fortune'' | 63 |
| Letters that come before www.ariespuzzles.com (yep, I just did it) | 66 |
| Letters that might precede a blogger's point of view | 56 |
| Letters that must be bought on "Wheel of Fortune" | 59 |
| Letters used in the catalog indexing for Matador Records | 56 |
| Letters with "messenger" or "transfer" | 58 |
| Letters within the theme entries that are, literally, next to nothing | 69 |
| LeVar, on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" | 52 |
| Level that a struggling MLB player might be demoted to | 54 |
| Levels that are split in this puzzle's theme entries | 56 |
| Lew Wallace's "Ben-Hur: ___ of the Christ" | 56 |
| Lewis Carroll's ''The Hunting of the ___'' | 62 |
| Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the ___" | 54 |
| Lex Luthor's sidekick in "Superman" (1978) | 56 |
| Lexicographer James who was the O.E.D.'s first editor | 57 |
| Li'l Abner's ''OK'' to Mammy Yokum | 58 |
| Liam Neeson voiced him in "The Chronicles of Narnia" films | 68 |
| Liam Neeson voices him in the "Narnia" films | 54 |