| A Manhattan restaurant is named for him | 39 |
| A man's "better half" | 35 |
| A Mama of the Mamas and the Papas | 33 |
| A Mama of The Mamas & the Papas | 35 |
| A major one has no sharps or flats | 34 |
| A magnet is one, with its two opposite ends | 43 |
| A magnet attracts it in a physics experiment | 44 |
| A magician's deck may be full of them | 41 |
| A lumberjack might leave one behind | 35 |
| A low-flow showerhead will help lower it | 40 |
| A lot of thinking is done in them | 33 |
| A lot of Shakespeare's writing | 34 |
| A lot of music from the '60s was made on it | 47 |
| A lot of land, either way you look at it | 40 |
| A lot of foreign intelligence intercepts | 40 |
| A lot of a drill sergeant's drill | 37 |
| A lot of a car valet's income | 33 |
| A lot more than pleasingly plump | 32 |
| A lost driver may hang one, briefly | 35 |
| A lord in "The Winter's Tale" | 43 |
| A looker might give it ... or get it | 36 |
| A longtime magazine subscriber, e.g. | 36 |
| A long, amateurish piano recital, maybe | 39 |
| A long tale such as "Beowulf" | 39 |
| A long segment of "The Blues Brothers" | 48 |
| A long résumé may reflect one | 35 |
| A long one may have several legs | 32 |
| A locker room may have a strong one | 35 |
| A locale in Twain's "Roughing It" | 47 |
| A loaded gun is full of it (Abbr.) | 34 |
| A lively person may have a sparkling one | 40 |
| A little over half a century in old Rome | 40 |
| A little over a million dollars? | 32 |
| A little open, as an office door | 32 |
| A little one'll do ya, according to Brylcreem | 49 |
| A little one will "do ya," in old ads | 47 |
| A little of this, a little of that | 34 |
| A little of this and a little of that dish | 42 |
| A little of this and a little of that | 37 |
| A little of everything, on 'Jeopardy!' | 46 |
| A little night music for the lady | 33 |
| A little more than a quarter of a cord | 38 |
| A little more than a quart, to a Brit | 37 |
| A little more than 900 kilograms | 32 |
| A little less than 11 hours, on Saturn | 38 |
| A little larger than a double bed | 33 |
| A little extra burnishing, maybe, in brief | 42 |
| A little "out there," as humor | 40 |
| A lime-flavored version of it came out in 2004 | 46 |
| A lifeguard's whistle might create one | 42 |
| A liar's are on fire, so they say | 37 |
| A Letter for ____ : '45 film | 34 |
| A letter carrier has one (abbr.) | 32 |
| A letter + low in fat + huggable toy = ? | 40 |
| A letter + broadcast + loyal + a deer = ? | 41 |
| A Lesson From ____ : Fugard play | 34 |
| A leader no matter how you look at it | 37 |
| A lazy person might need to get off theirs | 42 |
| A large part of a waitress's income | 39 |
| A Lannister in "Game of Thrones" | 42 |
| A land of the Tigris and Euphrates | 34 |
| A knitter might have a ball with it | 35 |
| A knight takes one when being dubbed | 36 |
| A kind of fur, or Nova Scotia island | 36 |
| A kid'll eat the middle of one first | 40 |
| A kid'll eat the middle of it first | 39 |
| A kid'll eat the middle first | 33 |
| A kid will eat the middle of this first | 39 |
| A kid might be punished for showing it | 38 |
| A Kaufman companion at the Algonquin Round Table | 48 |
| A k a Edson Arantes do Nascimento | 33 |
| A job ticket often accompanies one | 34 |
| A Japanese immigrant's grandchild | 37 |
| A hung jury forced the judge to ___ | 35 |
| A household item that sounds like a person | 42 |
| A host of "The Gong Show" | 35 |
| A home away from home, for a day or two | 39 |
| A high-flying bird reaches the perch when . . . | 47 |
| A high school dropout might get it | 34 |
| A high one makes a burn less likely: Abbr. | 42 |
| A high one is good for pale people, briefly | 43 |
| A heptad of mischievous sprites turned laterally? | 49 |
| A heavy in "The Maltese Falcon" | 41 |
| A healthy-eating advocate always __ | 35 |
| A head of ''Time'' | 34 |
| A Hathaway who had a way with Will | 34 |
| A hard rain that's a-gonna fall? | 36 |
| A happening that happens to happen | 34 |
| A Handel concerto might have one | 32 |
| A hallowe'en celebrant, maybe | 33 |
| A Gypsy who rose via few clothes | 32 |
| A gymnastics coach must be a good __ | 36 |
| A Guthrie in "Alice's Restaurant" | 47 |
| A gunslinger may have an itchy one | 34 |
| A gun ready to be fired, for example | 36 |
| A Guinness world record adjective | 33 |
| A guillotine is used to remove them | 35 |
| A group of them is called a parliament | 38 |
| A group of them is called a knot | 32 |
| A grotesquerie from a horror show! | 34 |