| Kid who first appeared in O. Henry's "The Caballero's Way" | 76 |
| Kid's art activity ... or something seen four times in this puzzle's solution? | 86 |
| Kid's trains or, alternately, chocolate snack peddled by Ms. Chanel? | 72 |
| Kid-lit character who had a "Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" | 81 |
| Kid-lit title character who cries, "Oh, the things I now rule!" | 73 |
| Kid-lit title character who says "I am the ruler of all that I see!" | 78 |
| Kids' programming series that produced "Conjunction Junction" and "I'm Just a Bill" | 111 |
| Kids' song about an acorn "lying on the cold, cold ground" | 72 |
| Killers "Day & Age" bonus track "Forget About What ___" | 79 |
| Kilmer poem containing the line “Poems are made by fools like me” | 73 |
| Kind of arena that might host the Hugger Games (and a group hug involving tributes #1, #2, and #6) | 98 |
| Kind of cuisine in which onions, bell peppers and celery are the "holy trinity" | 89 |
| Kind of participle found in the sentence "While working on my computer, the dog pestered me for dinner" | 113 |
| Kind of production that "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" parodies | 74 |
| Kind of splint that immobilizes the wrist and thumb while allowing movement of other fingers | 92 |
| King Missile novelty hit with the lyrics "I can leave it home, when I think it's gonna get me in trouble / or I can rent it out, when I don't need it" | 168 |
| King who infamously demanded half of Rome's Western Empire as a dowry | 73 |
| King with the immortal line "Who is it that can tell me who I am?" | 76 |
| King, to Juan[LAST WEEK: The hidden name was Claudette Colbert, whose name appears across the grid's center row as CLAW / DEBT / COAL / BEAR.] | 146 |
| Kiss "You know your man is working hard. He's worth a ___" | 72 |
| Knighted Julius Caesar portrayer who helped decriminalize homosexuality in Britain | 82 |
| Knitted garments for women (and the longest common word that uses just the left typing hand) | 92 |
| Knock-off board game suffix found after "Dino," "Dog," or "Ocean" | 95 |
| Known as "the Impaler," prince who inspired "Dracula" | 73 |
| Knuckleballer Yoshida, currently the only professional woman pitcher in the U.S. (for the Chico Outlaws) | 104 |
| Korean heartthrob with the singles "I'm Coming" and "Inside of You" | 91 |
| LaBeouf of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" | 73 |
| LaBeouf of acting petulant and then being excused by James Franco in the New York Times | 87 |
| Lady Gaga's "Applause" and Katy Perry's "Roar" | 74 |
| Lady in the 1965 sitcom pilot episode "The Lady in the Bottle" | 72 |
| Lady Vols coach Summitt who is the winningest NCAA basketball coach ever | 72 |
| Lady who "had class with a capital 'K,'" per a 1932 Ethel Merman tune | 87 |
| Lame alternative to "Couldn't be bothered with writing that five paragraph essay" | 95 |
| Lame last-minute Halloween costume idea #1: raid the knife drawer, put a gold chain around your neck, and next thing you know you're a ___ | 142 |
| Lame last-minute Halloween costume idea #2: grab a broom, put a book under your arm and like magic, you're a ___ | 116 |
| Lame last-minute Halloween costume idea #3: slap on a sheet, borrow some Birkenstocks and suddenly you're an ___ | 116 |
| Lame last-minute Halloween costume idea #4: tape some toothpicks to a negligee and bam, you're a ___ | 104 |
| Lame reality TV term driven into the ground by this season's "Big Brother All-Stars" | 98 |
| Landmark in Elvis Presley's "It Happened at the World's Fair" | 79 |
| Landmark inaugurated 3/31/1889 whose shape is suggested by nine squares in this puzzle's completed grid | 107 |
| Landmark named "Eighth Wonder of the World" upon completion in 1936 | 77 |
| Lang. that doesn't really contain that many words for "snow" | 74 |
| Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They send me to eat in the kitchen / When company comes" | 103 |
| Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They send me to eat in the kitchen / When the company comes" | 107 |
| Language from which "cotton" and "candy" are derived | 72 |
| Language from which "jungle" and "pundit" are derived | 73 |
| Language in which "k" and "v" are the words for "to" and "in" | 101 |
| Language in which "Pakistan" means "land of the pure" | 73 |
| Language producing ''shampoo'' and ''pajamas'' | 78 |
| Language that gave us "slogan," originally meaning "battle cry" | 83 |
| Language we got the words "basmati" and "juggernaut" from | 77 |
| Language where "Jak se máš?" means "How are you?" | 75 |
| Large, wraparound sunglasses -- often worn at night to make critics less visible | 80 |
| Last half of a tiny food contaminant (with first half of, um, you know...) | 74 |
| Last letter in most plurals (but not in this puzzle's six longest answers, which are the only plurals in this grid) | 119 |
| Last name of brothers who combined for 6,916 total bases (60 more than all-time leader Hank Aaron) | 98 |
| Last part of the country to report election returns, usually, with "the" | 82 |
| Last words from Hamlet (well, he goes on for a while after that, but these words sum it up) | 91 |
| Latin phrase in the etymology of the word whose symbol is "&" | 75 |
| Latin term for coming back to life at the exact midpoint of a video game level? | 79 |
| Laurel and Hardy film with the line "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!" | 109 |
| Lauren who played cruise director Julie McCoy on "The Love Boat" | 74 |
| Law, before the "Mad Madam" from Disney's "The Sword in the Stone" showed up? | 101 |
| Lawrence who co-wrote "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi" | 92 |
| Lawrence who wrote the screenplay for "Raiders of the Lost Ark" | 73 |
| Lead singer of the band whose name is derived from a "Barbarella" villain's name | 94 |
| Lead-in for "across," "along," or "around" | 72 |
| Lead-in to ''kidding'' and ''gonna take it'' | 76 |
| Lead-in to "Five Dollars" and "Sixpence" in song titles | 75 |
| Leader of Husker Du whose "Dog On Fire" became the "Daily Show" theme | 89 |
| Leader played by Rod Steiger in the 1981 Libyan film "Lion of the Desert" | 83 |
| Leader repeatedly praised in the (doctored) Mandarin edition of Bill Clinton's "My Life" | 102 |
| Leader who said "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind" | 81 |
| Leader's name that's etymologically related to "chess" | 72 |
| Leave that asshole zookeeper behind forever, provided you can find a way into the sewer | 87 |
| Leave the infant of "In Treatment" star Gabriel in the sun too long? | 78 |
| Lebowitz who said "Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying" | 93 |
| Lee who got a Best Actress nomination for "Days of Wine and Roses" | 76 |
| Lefty with the fourth-highest career batting average in baseball history | 72 |
| Legend born 4/24/1942 whose name's 9 letters are the only ones in this puzzle grid | 86 |
| Legendary crooner who entertained tourists wearing raspberry-tinted sunglasses | 78 |
| Legendary Memphis site where Jerry Lee Lewis recorded "Great Balls of Fire" | 85 |
| Legendary San Francisco music/comedy club where Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen have performed | 90 |
| Legislation recently re-introduced by Edward Kennedy and Carolyn Maloney: Abbr. | 79 |
| Lennon reportedly described her as looking like "a bloke in drag" | 75 |
| Lennon song with the lyric "You may say I'm a dreamer ..." | 72 |
| Lennon's "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except __ My Monkey" | 82 |
| Lennon/McCartney song whose title words follow "They'll be glad, you're not ..." | 98 |
| Lennon/Ono with the Plastic Ono Band "Instant Karma! (We ___)" | 72 |
| Leonard McCoy: "Why is your tennis serve so darn good?" Spock: "___" | 88 |
| Les Cowboys Fringants "La Grand-Messe" track "Ti-___" | 73 |
| LeShan who wrote "It's Better to Be Over the Hill Than Under It" | 78 |
| Letter abbr. that tells the reader there's something else in the envelope | 77 |
| Letter appearing only in down answers; its opposite appears only in across answers | 82 |
| Letter that some feel should have its own day, rather than pi having Pi Day | 75 |
| Letter that, as it appears in the middle of this grid, can precede the first words of the starred entries | 105 |
| Letters after "messenger," "ribosomal" or "transfer" | 82 |
| Letters automatically displayed in the "Wheel of Fortune" bonus round | 79 |
| Letters for the names "buried" in this puzzle's theme answers | 75 |
| Letters with ''messenger'' or ''transfer'' | 74 |