| Like drinks garnished with umbrellas, often | 43 |
| Let someone else have your warding-off job? | 43 |
| Low-cal version of a hi-cal French dessert? | 43 |
| Large hunting dog with a liver-colored coat | 43 |
| Like the "ch" in "Bach" | 43 |
| Like ballplayers during the national anthem | 43 |
| Let a transcendental author speak his mind? | 43 |
| Loop of ___ (kidney part; anagram of HELEN) | 43 |
| Lleyton who was upset in the 2007 U.S. Open | 43 |
| Language group, including Urdu and Sanskrit | 43 |
| Like "Avatar" or "Hugo" | 43 |
| Low-cost airline that began service in 2000 | 43 |
| Litter that may not be ready for litter yet | 43 |
| Language with no word for "hello" | 43 |
| Lake ___, separating Switzerland and France | 43 |
| Like an offer that's under actual value | 43 |
| Like machines that aren't sophisticated | 43 |
| Limousine service for former Laker Johnson? | 43 |
| Longtime nemesis of the Washington Generals | 43 |
| Like the six longest answers in this puzzle | 43 |
| Long for one's lost Louisville Slugger? | 43 |
| Lippmann's "A Preface to ___" | 43 |
| Level of baseball that's for the birds? | 43 |
| Larry of the Black Arts Theater, and others | 43 |
| Like the beast in Hercules' first labor | 43 |
| Like some buildings with Corinthian columns | 43 |
| Like "bein' green," to Kermit | 43 |
| Like those who missed the group photo shoot | 43 |
| Like shirts with the tag showing, sometimes | 43 |
| Like bottles with S O S messages, typically | 43 |
| Law against certain intra-family marriages? | 43 |
| Like the first sprinter to leave the blocks | 43 |
| Line from ". . . All Ye Faithful" | 43 |
| Like flights in which passengers get bumped | 43 |
| Le Carré best seller, with "A" | 43 |
| Like Donald Trump's lips, half the time | 43 |
| Long-running MTV show, with "The" | 43 |
| Lazy way to fill the castle's trenches? | 43 |
| Lead role in "La Cage aux Folles" | 43 |
| Longtime magazine subscriber, once per year | 43 |
| Like some announcements that have been lost | 43 |
| Letters after Senator Judd Gregg's name | 43 |
| Longtime "Today" show personality | 43 |
| Like Robert Louis Stevenson and J.M. Barrie | 43 |
| Like the clothed owner of a distraught cat? | 43 |
| Language subfamily that includes Phoenician | 43 |
| LaBeouf of ''Transformers'' | 43 |
| Lovable "Li'l Abner" creature | 43 |
| Luxe loungewear in the men's department | 43 |
| Like "vav" in the Hebrew alphabet | 43 |
| Lord who was Elizabeth's brother-in-law | 43 |
| Linden co-star on "Barney Miller" | 43 |
| Locale for this puzzle's shaded squares | 43 |
| Literally, ''let it stand'' | 43 |
| Lindsey's "Tender Is the ___" | 43 |
| Language that gave us "boondocks" | 43 |
| Lake whose name means "big water" | 43 |
| Lake bordering the Silver and Golden states | 43 |
| Lamb's "___ From Shakespeare" | 43 |
| Like Kate, at the end of a Shakespeare play | 43 |
| Language that gave us "catamaran" | 43 |
| Language from which "curry" comes | 43 |
| London art museum, as it was formerly known | 43 |
| Locale for a Village People hit, informally | 43 |
| Like many wedding cakes and flapper dresses | 43 |
| Like a size 8 blouse vis-Ã -vis a size 10 | 43 |
| Louise of "Gilligan's Island" | 43 |
| Last word of "Angela's Ashes" | 43 |
| Last word in "Angela's Ashes" | 43 |
| Love handles produced from a Mexican snack? | 43 |
| Like many of Shakespeare's protagonists | 43 |
| Lake where Hannibal defeated the Roman army | 43 |
| Lou Grant's paper, with "The" | 43 |
| Like December, among the months of the year | 43 |
| Locale of the Carpathian Mountains, in part | 43 |
| Like victims of police brutality, sometimes | 43 |
| Like subscriptions to magazines you tire of | 43 |
| Like an incumbent who's lost reelection | 43 |
| Last name of three Indianapolis 500 winners | 43 |
| Language used on some Colorado reservations | 43 |
| Lab item that sounds like a popular website | 43 |
| Lyle _____Agriculture minister 1997 to 2003 | 43 |
| Letters featured in this puzzle's theme | 43 |
| Latin proverb about the power of the masses | 43 |
| Longfellow's "Tales of a ___" | 43 |
| Last word of a "White Album" tune | 43 |
| Language that gives us "cromlech" | 43 |
| Like the "guys" in a Piscopo film | 43 |
| Legendary "Midnight Special" host | 43 |
| Luke's mentor, in "Star Wars" | 43 |
| Like shipping and handling, typically: Abbr. | 44 |
| Little glass jars for booster vaccines, e.g. | 44 |
| Linda Ellerbee's "___ It Goes" | 44 |
| Lacking radiating appendages, as nerve cells | 44 |
| Longtime "What's My Line" name | 44 |
| Like Phileas Fogg during much of his journey | 44 |
| Like roughly 60% of human beings, ethnically | 44 |
| Like about 60% of the world's population | 44 |
| Lion in "The Chronicles of Narnia" | 44 |
| Longfellow's "The Bell of ___" | 44 |