| LaBeouf of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" | 73 |
| LaBeouf of acting petulant and then being excused by James Franco in the New York Times | 87 |
| Lady Gaga's "Applause" and Katy Perry's "Roar" | 74 |
| Lady in the 1965 sitcom pilot episode "The Lady in the Bottle" | 72 |
| Lady Vols coach Summitt who is the winningest NCAA basketball coach ever | 72 |
| Lady who "had class with a capital 'K,'" per a 1932 Ethel Merman tune | 87 |
| Lame alternative to "Couldn't be bothered with writing that five paragraph essay" | 95 |
| Lame last-minute Halloween costume idea #1: raid the knife drawer, put a gold chain around your neck, and next thing you know you're a ___ | 142 |
| Lame last-minute Halloween costume idea #2: grab a broom, put a book under your arm and like magic, you're a ___ | 116 |
| Lame last-minute Halloween costume idea #3: slap on a sheet, borrow some Birkenstocks and suddenly you're an ___ | 116 |
| Lame last-minute Halloween costume idea #4: tape some toothpicks to a negligee and bam, you're a ___ | 104 |
| Lame reality TV term driven into the ground by this season's "Big Brother All-Stars" | 98 |
| Landmark in Elvis Presley's "It Happened at the World's Fair" | 79 |
| Landmark inaugurated 3/31/1889 whose shape is suggested by nine squares in this puzzle's completed grid | 107 |
| Landmark named "Eighth Wonder of the World" upon completion in 1936 | 77 |
| Lang. that doesn't really contain that many words for "snow" | 74 |
| Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They send me to eat in the kitchen / When company comes" | 103 |
| Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They send me to eat in the kitchen / When the company comes" | 107 |
| Language from which "cotton" and "candy" are derived | 72 |
| Language from which "jungle" and "pundit" are derived | 73 |
| Language in which "k" and "v" are the words for "to" and "in" | 101 |
| Language in which "Pakistan" means "land of the pure" | 73 |
| Language producing ''shampoo'' and ''pajamas'' | 78 |
| Language that gave us "slogan," originally meaning "battle cry" | 83 |
| Language we got the words "basmati" and "juggernaut" from | 77 |
| Language where "Jak se máš?" means "How are you?" | 75 |
| Large, wraparound sunglasses -- often worn at night to make critics less visible | 80 |
| Last half of a tiny food contaminant (with first half of, um, you know...) | 74 |
| Last letter in most plurals (but not in this puzzle's six longest answers, which are the only plurals in this grid) | 119 |
| Last name of brothers who combined for 6,916 total bases (60 more than all-time leader Hank Aaron) | 98 |
| Last part of the country to report election returns, usually, with "the" | 82 |
| Last words from Hamlet (well, he goes on for a while after that, but these words sum it up) | 91 |
| Latin phrase in the etymology of the word whose symbol is "&" | 75 |
| Latin term for coming back to life at the exact midpoint of a video game level? | 79 |
| Laurel and Hardy film with the line "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!" | 109 |
| Lauren who played cruise director Julie McCoy on "The Love Boat" | 74 |
| Law, before the "Mad Madam" from Disney's "The Sword in the Stone" showed up? | 101 |
| Lawrence who co-wrote "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi" | 92 |
| Lawrence who wrote the screenplay for "Raiders of the Lost Ark" | 73 |
| Lead singer of the band whose name is derived from a "Barbarella" villain's name | 94 |
| Lead-in for "across," "along," or "around" | 72 |
| Lead-in to ''kidding'' and ''gonna take it'' | 76 |
| Lead-in to "Five Dollars" and "Sixpence" in song titles | 75 |
| Leader of Husker Du whose "Dog On Fire" became the "Daily Show" theme | 89 |
| Leader played by Rod Steiger in the 1981 Libyan film "Lion of the Desert" | 83 |
| Leader repeatedly praised in the (doctored) Mandarin edition of Bill Clinton's "My Life" | 102 |
| Leader who said "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind" | 81 |
| Leader's name that's etymologically related to "chess" | 72 |
| Leave that asshole zookeeper behind forever, provided you can find a way into the sewer | 87 |
| Leave the infant of "In Treatment" star Gabriel in the sun too long? | 78 |
| Lebowitz who said "Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying" | 93 |
| Lee who got a Best Actress nomination for "Days of Wine and Roses" | 76 |
| Lefty with the fourth-highest career batting average in baseball history | 72 |
| Legend born 4/24/1942 whose name's 9 letters are the only ones in this puzzle grid | 86 |
| Legendary crooner who entertained tourists wearing raspberry-tinted sunglasses | 78 |
| Legendary Memphis site where Jerry Lee Lewis recorded "Great Balls of Fire" | 85 |
| Legendary San Francisco music/comedy club where Lenny Bruce and Woody Allen have performed | 90 |
| Legislation recently re-introduced by Edward Kennedy and Carolyn Maloney: Abbr. | 79 |
| Lennon reportedly described her as looking like "a bloke in drag" | 75 |
| Lennon song with the lyric "You may say I'm a dreamer ..." | 72 |
| Lennon's "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except __ My Monkey" | 82 |
| Lennon/McCartney song whose title words follow "They'll be glad, you're not ..." | 98 |
| Lennon/Ono with the Plastic Ono Band "Instant Karma! (We ___)" | 72 |
| Leonard McCoy: "Why is your tennis serve so darn good?" Spock: "___" | 88 |
| Les Cowboys Fringants "La Grand-Messe" track "Ti-___" | 73 |
| LeShan who wrote "It's Better to Be Over the Hill Than Under It" | 78 |
| Letter abbr. that tells the reader there's something else in the envelope | 77 |
| Letter appearing only in down answers; its opposite appears only in across answers | 82 |
| Letter that some feel should have its own day, rather than pi having Pi Day | 75 |
| Letter that, as it appears in the middle of this grid, can precede the first words of the starred entries | 105 |
| Letters after "messenger," "ribosomal" or "transfer" | 82 |
| Letters automatically displayed in the "Wheel of Fortune" bonus round | 79 |
| Letters for the names "buried" in this puzzle's theme answers | 75 |
| Letters with ''messenger'' or ''transfer'' | 74 |
| Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" word for "scratch, dog-style" | 83 |
| Librettist who rhymed "a lot o' news" with "hypotenuse" | 79 |
| License plate (and character played by Michael Douglas) in "Falling Down" | 83 |
| LIEUT: "He says you're ___." DESIGNER: "That's not true!" | 85 |
| Lifeline removed from the latest season of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" | 84 |
| Like 49.1 pecent of the population, according to a 2000 report by the U.S. Census Bureau | 88 |
| Like a "Better active today than radioactive tomorrow" sentiment | 74 |
| Like a subtitled black-and-white movie in which everyone smokes and wears sunglasses | 84 |
| Like an insufferable, privileged sophomore who hates everyone ... and is melodramatic about it | 94 |
| Like computer operating systems that allow many people to work simultaneously | 77 |
| Like dictionaries without a word meaning "raisable castle door"? | 74 |
| Like each answer in this puzzle - also each word in each clue - in length | 73 |
| Like fewer and fewer children, as from diseases like whooping cough (grrrr...) | 78 |
| Like fish for fish & chips -- or this puzzle's four theme entries | 73 |
| Like Michelangelo's "David" or Rodin's "The Thinker" | 80 |
| Like one wearing a studded belt, black wristbands and black-rimmed glasses | 74 |
| Like people in a group hug, presumably (and a group hug involving Tributes #7, #8, and #11) | 91 |
| Like pronouns such as "myself" which refer back to the subject of the clause | 86 |
| Like snide remarks from old Russian despots? (#4 in David Yale's "Pun Enchanted Evenings") | 104 |
| Like some elite U.S. athletes (or an apt alternate title for this puzzle) | 73 |
| Like St. Nick's "little mouth," in "The Night Before Christmas" | 87 |
| Like the answers to the 10 asterisked clues, more often than any other English words, according to a 1999 study | 111 |
| Like the haircut I just got from this old Polish dude that then I had to fix | 76 |
| Like the Jordan River, according to "Michael Row the Boat Ashore" | 75 |
| Like the maximum-height New York City apartment building that's not required to have a fire evacuation plan | 111 |
| Like the NCAA basketball tournament's opening game between the two last-seeded teams | 88 |