| "Letters to a Young Contrarian" author Christopher | 60 |
| "Letting 'I ___' wait . . . ": Shak. | 54 |
| "Letting '___ not' wait . . . ": Macbeth | 58 |
| "Li'l Abner" and "Doonesbury," e.g. | 59 |
| "Lid" in each of this puzzle's theme entries | 58 |
| "Life is . . . not doing ___": O. W. Holmes Jr. | 57 |
| "Life is an ___ itself . . . ": O. W. Holmes Jr. | 58 |
| "Life Is ___ Short" (Mickey Rooney autobiography) | 59 |
| "Life Itself: A Memoir" autobiographer, 2011 | 54 |
| "Life made ___" (slogan of Real Simple magazine) | 58 |
| "Life ___ end in itself . . . ": O. W. Holmes | 55 |
| "Life ___" (2014 documentary about Roger Ebert) | 57 |
| "Life's Little ___" (Thomas Hardy collection) | 59 |
| "Life: A User's Manual" author Georges | 52 |
| "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" boat, typically | 61 |
| "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" host Robin | 56 |
| "Light My Fire" band appearing at Microsoft? | 54 |
| "Like --- of glass he could ...": "Invisible" | 65 |
| "Like Nashville with a ___" Shawn Mullins lyric | 57 |
| "Like nature's patient, sleepless ___": Keats | 59 |
| "Like the loser of a who's-thinnest competition" | 62 |
| "Like Water for Chocolate" author Esquivel | 52 |
| "Like Water for Chocolate" director Alfonso | 53 |
| "Like ___ votarist in palmer's weed": Milton | 58 |
| "Like ___ without a tail": "Macbeth" | 56 |
| "Listen up, 'cause this could be useful..." | 57 |
| "Listen, ___ the sound be fled": Longfellow | 53 |
| "Little Blue and Little Yellow" author Lionni | 55 |
| "Little Caesar" role for Edward G. Robinson | 53 |
| "Little Fluffy Clouds" band, with "the" | 59 |
| "Little girl with big ideas" of 1950s fiction | 55 |
| "Little House on the Prairie" co-star Karen | 53 |
| "Little House on the Prairie" merchant __ Oleson | 58 |
| "Little House on the Prairie" setting: Abbr. | 54 |
| "Little House on the Prairie" writer ___ Ingalls Wilder | 65 |
| "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" ___ Doctors | 54 |
| "Little Orphan Annie" character (with "The") | 64 |
| "Little Things" R&B musician, in her element? | 59 |
| "Little we see in Nature that is ___": Wordsworth | 59 |
| "Little we see in Nature that ___": Wordsworth | 56 |
| "Little Women" or "Little Men" novelist | 59 |
| "Little ___ Coupe" (1963 Beach Boys album) | 52 |
| "Little ___ in Slumberland" (pioneering comic strip) | 62 |
| "Little ___" (Marjorie Henderson Buell cartoon) | 57 |
| "Little ___" (Marjorie Henderson Buell comic strip) | 61 |
| "Little ___," 1994 Russian-American film drama | 56 |
| "Little" girl in "David Copperfield" | 56 |
| "Little" girl in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" | 60 |
| "Little" girl of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" | 60 |
| "Little" kids' book character with a strong work ethic | 68 |
| "Little" shepherdess of children's verse | 54 |
| "Little" singer of "Fingertips - Pt. 2" | 59 |
| "Little" singer of "I Will Follow Him" | 58 |
| "Live at the Hammersmith ___" Black Sabbath | 53 |
| "Live at the ___" (1988 Patsy Cline album) | 52 |
| "Live at ___" (1970 double-platinum album) | 52 |
| "Live Free or Die Hard" actor – in the Atlantic? | 65 |
| "Live free ___" (New Hampshire's motto) | 53 |
| "Live long and __": "Star Trek" blessing | 60 |
| "Live Through This (Fifteen Stories)" Mighty Joe ___ | 62 |
| "Live well" nutritional supplement chain, briefly | 59 |
| "Live Without ___" (1986 Van Halen tour video) | 56 |
| "Live Without ___" (Van Halen concert video) | 54 |
| "Lives like a drunken sailor on ___": Shak. | 53 |
| "Livin' la Vida __" (Ricky Martin tune) | 53 |
| "Livin' la Vida ___" (Ricky Martin hit) | 53 |
| "Livin' la Vida ___" (Ricky Martin song) | 54 |
| "Living in the ___" (Steve Miller Band song) | 54 |
| "Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story" star Sherilyn | 57 |
| "Lo! in ___ brilliant window-niche ...": Poe | 54 |
| "Lo, here ___, / Never to rise again": "Hamlet" | 67 |
| "Locked room" mystery writer John Dickson __ | 54 |
| "London Calling" band with "The" | 52 |
| "London Calling" group, with "the" | 54 |
| "Long as there's ___ that sets . . . " | 52 |
| "Long Day's Journey Into Night" playwright | 56 |
| "Long Day's Journey Into Night" writer | 52 |
| "Long live the king! Long live the king!," for example? | 65 |
| "Long Road Out of ___" (2007 Eagles album) | 52 |
| "Long ___ and Far Away" (James Taylor hit) | 52 |
| "Long ___, in a galaxy far, far away . . ." | 53 |
| "Longhaired ___" (1976 David Allan Coe album) | 55 |
| "Look at me, ___ helpless ..." ("Misty" opening) | 68 |
| "Look for the Silver Lining" lyricist Buddy De___ | 59 |
| "Look Homeward, Angel" dramatist _____ Frings | 55 |
| "Look not thou upon the wine when it ___": Proverbs | 61 |
| "Look to ___ troublous world": "Richard III" | 64 |
| "Look What ___ Done to My Song, Ma" (1970 hit) | 56 |
| "Look who just showed up! It's Attila!"? | 54 |
| "Look __, I'm Sandra Dee": "Grease" song | 64 |
| "Look'd he or red or pale, ___ . . . ?": Shak. | 60 |
| "Lookin' Out My Back Door" band, briefly | 54 |
| "Lookin' Out My Back Door" band, for short | 56 |
| "Looking Down The Barrel of ___" (Beastie Boys) | 57 |
| "Looks like ___" (amateur meteorologist's assessment) | 67 |
| "Lord of the Rings" setting, with "the" | 59 |
| "Lorna Doone" star and noted Street performer | 55 |
| "Lose one's head" or "lose one's shirt" | 67 |
| "Lose Yourself to ___" (2013 Daft Punk single) | 56 |
| "Losers," according to CNBC's Rick Santelli | 57 |