| A land was named for him | 24 |
| A landlord may do this | 22 |
| A language of New Zealand | 25 |
| A language of Pakistan | 22 |
| A language of Scotland | 22 |
| A language of South Africa | 26 |
| A language of Sri Lanka | 23 |
| A language spoken in Arizona | 28 |
| A Lansbury role on Broadway | 27 |
| A large chunk of Earth | 22 |
| A large chunk of the world | 26 |
| A large one may be named | 24 |
| A large part of Mongolia | 24 |
| A last name in astronomy | 24 |
| A law follows his name | 22 |
| A leader and follower? | 22 |
| A leader of modernism in art | 28 |
| A leader of the Dada movement | 29 |
| A leader to the Promised Land | 29 |
| A leading Japanese golfer | 25 |
| A leading lady Down Under | 25 |
| A legend in his own mind | 24 |
| A legitimate object of attack | 29 |
| A less-than-average tide | 24 |
| A letter may offer one | 22 |
| A leveret is a young one | 24 |
| A Levy who loved a Murphy | 25 |
| A library book may be on it | 27 |
| A librettist for Verdi | 22 |
| A lifetime at the North Pole? | 29 |
| A light bulb contains one | 25 |
| A light may be set on one | 25 |
| A lightbulb can represent it | 28 |
| A limited one can be valuable | 29 |
| A line may be drawn in it | 25 |
| A line winds in and out of it | 29 |
| A line winds out of it | 22 |
| A lion, but not a giraffe | 25 |
| A literary incongruity | 22 |
| A little above average | 22 |
| A little after, timewise | 24 |
| A little before the hour | 24 |
| A little better than average | 28 |
| A little Biblical misfortune? | 29 |
| A little bigger than med. | 25 |
| A little bit of everything | 26 |
| A little bit of haven? | 22 |
| A little bit of history | 23 |
| A little bit of sunshine | 24 |
| A little bit of trouble? | 24 |
| A little bundle of energy | 25 |
| A little faster than largo | 26 |
| A little for the road? | 22 |
| A little French number | 22 |
| A little German number | 22 |
| A little high in music class? | 29 |
| A little laughter (Var.) | 24 |
| A little less than 100% | 23 |
| A little more than two cups | 27 |
| A little of a large lot? | 24 |
| A little of everything | 22 |
| A little on the heavy side | 26 |
| A little on the slow side | 25 |
| A little over half the world | 28 |
| A little over three grains | 26 |
| A little over two lbs. | 22 |
| A little running water? | 23 |
| A little short, as of money | 27 |
| A little slow on the git-go | 27 |
| A little slower than moderato | 29 |
| A little teapot has one | 23 |
| A little while, to Burns | 24 |
| A Little with a lot of voices | 29 |
| A little worse than O.K. | 24 |
| A little, colloquially | 22 |
| A little, in sheet music | 24 |
| A live or a nine, e.g. | 22 |
| A load off one's mine? | 26 |
| A locale for a physics course | 29 |
| A lode off one's mine? | 26 |
| A lonely place, so they say | 27 |
| A long one may have legs | 24 |
| A long time in México | 24 |
| A long time in the past | 23 |
| A long, long, long time | 23 |
| A look at Loren, usually | 24 |
| A look might precede one | 24 |
| A loop doesn't have any | 27 |
| A loose one can trip you up | 27 |
| A lord in "Macbeth" | 29 |
| A Los Angeles N.F.L. team | 25 |
| A loser to Harry in '48 | 27 |
| A loser to Joe Louis: 1941 | 26 |
| A lot bigger than a breadbox | 28 |
| A lot may have a lot of them | 28 |
| A lot of a Maine forest | 23 |
| A lot of campaign rhetoric | 26 |
| A lot of cars and trucks | 24 |
| A lot of copy shop business | 27 |
| A lot of Eurasia, once: Abbr. | 29 |