| Lead-in to preservation | 23 |
| Lead-in to ring or drum | 23 |
| Lead-in to sense or fiction | 27 |
| Lead-in to sent or vent | 23 |
| Lead-in to shame or boy | 23 |
| Lead-in to sine, cosine, or tangent | 35 |
| Lead-in to some royal names | 27 |
| Lead-in to some written advice | 30 |
| Lead-in to someone else's words, after "and" | 58 |
| Lead-in to stick and goods | 26 |
| Lead-in to suction | 18 |
| Lead-in to swell, witty, sweet or grand | 39 |
| Lead-in to tasse or john | 24 |
| Lead-in to the tee? | 19 |
| Lead-in to tiller | 17 |
| Lead-in to Tishri | 17 |
| Lead-in to type | 15 |
| Lead-in to Vegas | 16 |
| Lead-in to wash | 15 |
| Lead-in to while | 16 |
| Lead-in to wit or way | 21 |
| Lead-in with angle | 18 |
| Lead-in, briefly | 16 |
| Lead-in, for short | 18 |
| Lead-ins | 8 |
| Lead-ins to big days | 20 |
| Lead-ins to holidays | 20 |
| Lead-ins to many YouTube videos | 31 |
| Lead-ins to negotiations | 24 |
| Lead-off man at the plate | 25 |
| Lead-off on a tax form | 22 |
| Lead-off track on the Beatles' "Revolver" | 55 |
| Lead-off, for one | 17 |
| Lead-pipe cinch | 15 |
| Lead-pipe item | 14 |
| Lead-pipe thing? | 16 |
| Lead-pipe ___ | 13 |
| Lead-role player | 16 |
| Lead-tin alloy | 14 |
| Lead-tin alloy used for joining | 31 |
| Lead-tin alloys | 15 |
| Lead-up to a coup | 17 |
| Lead-up to a special delivery? | 30 |
| Lead-up to la | 13 |
| Lead-___ | 8 |
| Lead/tin alloy | 14 |
| Lead: Ger. | 10 |
| Lead? | 5 |
| Leadbelly standard "Goodnight, ___" | 45 |
| Leaded fuel component | 21 |
| Leaded gas component | 20 |
| Leaded or unleaded item | 23 |
| Leaden | 6 |
| Leaden, in London | 17 |
| LEADENNESS | 10 |
| Leader | 6 |
| Leader after Indian independence | 32 |
| Leader after Mao | 16 |
| Leader after Pericles | 21 |
| Leader against the Aztecs | 25 |
| Leader among Fauvist painters | 29 |
| Leader Arafat | 13 |
| Leader at a mosque | 18 |
| Leader at Indy | 14 |
| Leader at OPEC, maybe | 21 |
| Leader at Potsdam | 17 |
| Leader at Yalta | 15 |
| Leader before Hua | 17 |
| Leader before Lenin | 19 |
| Leader before Mubarak | 21 |
| Leader before the Ayatollah | 27 |
| Leader between Brezhnev and Chernenko | 37 |
| Leader born in Damascus | 23 |
| Leader born in Georgia | 22 |
| Leader called "a thug and a murderer" by Kerry in 2013 | 64 |
| Leader called "the Great" | 35 |
| Leader called a "traitor to his class," for short | 59 |
| Leader called Mahatma | 21 |
| Leader chooser | 14 |
| Leader deposed in 1955 | 22 |
| Leader dubbed Mahatma | 21 |
| Leader during the Golden Age of Athens | 38 |
| Leader during the Persian Gulf War | 34 |
| Leader elected by monks | 23 |
| Leader elected in 2005 | 22 |
| Leader executed by the Bolsheviks | 33 |
| Leader exiled in 1979 | 21 |
| Leader exiled on Saint Helena | 29 |
| Leader for Moses? | 17 |
| Leader for whom a Parisian airport is named | 43 |
| Leader for whom Houston's airport is named | 46 |
| Leader from Talah Minufiya | 26 |
| Leader given the posthumous title Rex Perpetuus Norvegiae | 57 |
| Leader in 19th-century Italian unity | 36 |
| Leader in a 1972 summit meeting with Nixon | 42 |
| Leader in a beret | 17 |
| Leader in a field | 17 |
| Leader in a holiday song | 24 |
| Leader in a mosque | 18 |
| Leader in a robe | 16 |