| Like sudden-death playoffs | 26 |
| Like a close game, usually | 26 |
| Like Omar after a busy day | 26 |
| Lead-in for flops or hertz | 26 |
| Like Hemingway's prose | 26 |
| Letters for nine-to-fivers | 26 |
| Lemmon-MacLaine Oscar film | 26 |
| Loud talent contest of old | 26 |
| Locale for a New York diva | 26 |
| Lincoln Center institution | 26 |
| Logician's proposition | 26 |
| Like a bronze medal winner | 26 |
| Long-term home loan option | 26 |
| Like some holiday weekends | 26 |
| Like some sports contracts | 26 |
| Liftoff rocket's force | 26 |
| Lower part of the skeleton | 26 |
| Like the angry clockmaker? | 26 |
| Like an angry watch maker? | 26 |
| Land at a Spanish airport? | 26 |
| Levels of a haunted house? | 26 |
| Like Winnie-the-Pooh fans? | 26 |
| Like some expensive floors | 26 |
| Like many a bathroom floor | 26 |
| Lovable little Dickens lad | 26 |
| Like track-and-field races | 26 |
| Liz on "30 Rock" | 26 |
| Like Neptune's trident | 26 |
| Lacking in resonance, e.g. | 26 |
| Like a decorated Yule tree | 26 |
| Like the youngest Cratchit | 26 |
| Legendary home of Hercules | 26 |
| Lay one's ___ the line | 26 |
| Letters that pack a wallop | 26 |
| Like many fast-food orders | 26 |
| Lomé is its capital | 26 |
| Like some fast-food orders | 26 |
| Like many fast food orders | 26 |
| Like a drive-through order | 26 |
| Like some black guys on TV | 26 |
| Lone-minority bug breeder? | 26 |
| Like understanding parents | 26 |
| Lacking an ear, as it were | 26 |
| Lone Ranger's sidekick | 26 |
| Like overly tight clothing | 26 |
| Like Leno's monologues | 26 |
| Like some bars and beaches | 26 |
| Like many washing machines | 26 |
| Leafs' home, for short | 26 |
| Life savers, topologically | 26 |
| Like extremely heavy rains | 26 |
| Lean-___ (simple shelters) | 26 |
| Like some coins and salads | 26 |
| Living royally since birth | 26 |
| Lewis's Gopher Prairie | 26 |
| Like some industrial waste | 26 |
| Letter-shaped wagon tongue | 26 |
| Like "King Lear" | 26 |
| Limestone from hot springs | 26 |
| Lebanon's flag has one | 26 |
| Last word of a Kilmer poem | 26 |
| Like beech-front property? | 26 |
| Lattices around an island? | 26 |
| Lock that cannot be opened | 26 |
| Lock that doesn't open | 26 |
| Larry, Moe and Curly, e.g. | 26 |
| Like a Minuteman's hat | 26 |
| Like one with six-pack abs | 26 |
| Lear's daughters e.g. | 26 |
| Like the least risky bonds | 26 |
| Law enforcement in Lebanon | 26 |
| Long-short feet, in poetry | 26 |
| Like drinks with umbrellas | 26 |
| Large quantity of treasure | 26 |
| Louis Armstrong's horn | 26 |
| Lovers' secret meeting | 26 |
| Lake feeding the Blue Nile | 26 |
| Like old autocratic Russia | 26 |
| Lao ____ and Mao ____ Tung | 26 |
| Like a loin lamb chop bone | 26 |
| Louisiana school accesses? | 26 |
| Like a good-sounding piano | 26 |
| Listen to, as a radio show | 26 |
| Like some female elephants | 26 |
| Least populous U.N. member | 26 |
| Lucille Ball or Monty Hall | 26 |
| Like some Nashville vocals | 26 |
| Looking-glass land denizen | 26 |
| Lead-in for light or night | 26 |
| Like Hawthorne's tales | 26 |
| Layered wardrobe selection | 26 |
| Like some vaudeville shows | 26 |
| Like many TV movies: Abbr. | 26 |
| Length of a football drill | 26 |
| Like some farm cultivators | 26 |
| Like a universal recipient | 26 |
| Laid-back, personalitywise | 26 |
| Like part of Lake Victoria | 26 |
| Like a clock-stopping face | 26 |
| Lost drivers may hang them | 26 |