| Lead-in to a 2000s "-gate" | 36 |
| Lead-in to "I really should get going" | 48 |
| Lead-in to "fire" or "trap" | 47 |
| Lead-in to "fare" (Var.) | 34 |
| Lead-in to "date" or "trap" | 47 |
| Lead-in to "boy" or "girl" | 46 |
| Lead-in to "boy!" or "girl!" | 48 |
| Lead-in to "apple" or "berry" | 49 |
| Lead-in to 'There's more!' | 38 |
| Lead-in to 'plop' or 'plunk' | 44 |
| Lead-in to 'I can't hear you!' | 42 |
| Lead-in to 'calm' or 'bright' | 45 |
| Lead-in to ''while'' | 36 |
| Lead-in for physics ... and pieman? | 35 |
| Lead-in for Mongolia or Hebrides | 32 |
| Lead-in for Fernando or Francisco | 33 |
| Lead-in for deux, trois or quatre | 33 |
| Lead-in for across, along, or around | 36 |
| Lead-in for "sees" or "seas" | 48 |
| Lead-in for "president" | 33 |
| Lead-in for "long" or "now" | 47 |
| Lead-in for "gram" or "graph" | 49 |
| Lead-in for "go bragh" | 32 |
| Lead-in for "boy!" or "girl!" | 49 |
| Lead-in for ''graph'' | 37 |
| Lead-in for ''Bravo'' | 37 |
| Lead-in following a second point | 32 |
| Lead ___-and-dog life (constantly quarrel) | 42 |
| Lead singer on "Octopus's Garden" | 47 |
| Lead singer of the Main Ingredient | 34 |
| Lead singer of the Isley Brothers | 33 |
| Lead singer of the Irish rock group The Corrs | 45 |
| Lead singer of the fictional Pussycats | 38 |
| Lead singer of the band Body Count | 34 |
| Lead singer of rock's Foo Fighters | 38 |
| Lead role on TV's "Providence" | 44 |
| Lead role on "Providence" | 35 |
| Lead role in producers Max and Leo's musical | 48 |
| Lead role in a classic Arthur Miller play | 41 |
| Lead role in a 60's TV drama | 32 |
| Lead role in a 1924 G.B. Shaw play | 34 |
| Lead role in "The Vampire Diaries" | 44 |
| Lead role in "The Piano" | 34 |
| Lead role in "Miracle on 34th Street" | 47 |
| Lead role in "La Cage aux Folles" | 43 |
| Lead role in "Hawaii Five-O" | 38 |
| Lead role in "Clueless" | 33 |
| Lead role in "A Chorus Line" | 38 |
| Lead role in 'La Cage aux Folles' | 41 |
| Lead rat in "Ratatouille" | 35 |
| Lead characters in "No, No, Nanette" | 46 |
| Lead characters in "Mork & Mindy"? | 48 |
| Lead character on "Saved by the Bell" | 47 |
| Lead character on "Pushing Daisies" | 45 |
| Lead character in a Mario Puzo novel | 36 |
| Lead character in "Zoolander"? | 40 |
| Lead character in "Salem's Lot"? | 46 |
| Lead character in "Saint Joan" | 40 |
| Lead character in "Planet of the Apes" | 48 |
| Lead character in "Jerry Maguire" | 43 |
| Lead character in "Grease"? | 37 |
| Lead character in "Footloose" | 39 |
| Lead bug in "A Bug's Life" | 40 |
| Lead Belly classic "Goodnight, ___" | 45 |
| Lead actress in "The Big Parade" | 42 |
| Lead actor in a war movie, at times? | 36 |
| Leachman of "Young Frankenstein" | 42 |
| Leachman of "The Last Picture Show" | 45 |
| Leachman of "Raising Hope" [Fox, 2010-] | 49 |
| Leachman of "Dancing with the Stars" | 46 |
| Leachman costar in "Young Frankenstein" | 49 |
| Leach title from "Henry VIII" | 39 |
| Lea's "The ___ Bulls" | 35 |
| Lea Michele on "Glee," e.g. | 37 |
| Le ___ Marché (Paris department store) | 41 |
| Le ___ (place to find a French article) | 39 |
| Le Smoking suit designer, initially | 35 |
| Le smoking creator's monogram | 33 |
| Le Sage's "Gil _____" | 35 |
| Le Sage's "Gil ___" | 33 |
| Le Sage novel "Gil ___" | 33 |
| Le Sage novel "Gil __" | 32 |
| Le quai des Tuileries adjoins it | 32 |
| Le Prince de Galles and La Villa Beaumarchais | 45 |
| Le petit prince's home planet | 33 |
| Le jour de ___ (New Year's Day): Fr. | 40 |
| Le Duc ___, 1973 Peace co-Nobelist | 34 |
| Le Duc ___ (Nobel Peace Prize refuser) | 38 |
| Le dernier ___ (the latest fashion) | 35 |
| Le Corbusier contemporary Mies van der ___ | 42 |
| Le Carre character, or Saskatchewan hill | 40 |
| Le Carré's Smiley, for one | 33 |
| Le Carré's George Smiley, e.g. | 37 |
| Le Carré's "___ Spy" | 37 |
| Le Carré best seller, with "A" | 43 |
| Léhar's "The Merry ___" | 40 |
| Lazy way to fill the castle's trenches? | 43 |
| Lazy play from Chicago's gridders? | 38 |
| Lazy place to store your tools in the kitchen? | 46 |
| Lazy person's racquet sport? | 32 |