| Like late-autumn leaves | 23 |
| Like late-breaking news | 23 |
| Like late-night commuter trains | 31 |
| Like Latin, today | 17 |
| Like Latvia or Lithuania | 24 |
| Like laundromat washers, for short | 34 |
| Like laundry air | 16 |
| Like Laura Wingfield's menagerie | 36 |
| Like Laurel and Hardy in a '40s film | 40 |
| Like Lauren Hutton's front teeth | 36 |
| Like lava | 9 |
| Like lava flows | 15 |
| Like lava lamps, lately | 23 |
| Like law on the books | 21 |
| Like law school courts | 22 |
| Like lawmakers | 14 |
| Like lawn shrubs | 16 |
| Like lawn spots in need of reseeding | 36 |
| Like lawns | 10 |
| Like lawns in the fall | 22 |
| Like lawns in the morning | 25 |
| Like laws that may be used to combat rackets? | 45 |
| Like lawyers are supposed to be | 31 |
| Like LAX | 8 |
| Like LAX and JFK | 16 |
| Like LAX or JFK | 15 |
| Like LAX, around the clock | 26 |
| Like lazy Susans and car tires | 30 |
| Like le Carré's fiction | 30 |
| Like le mot juste | 17 |
| Like leaf blowers | 17 |
| Like leaks | 10 |
| Like leaning letters | 20 |
| Like Lear | 9 |
| Like leas | 9 |
| Like leas in winter | 19 |
| Like leather, perhaps | 21 |
| Like leaves | 11 |
| Like leaves in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" | 51 |
| Like leaves in late autumn | 26 |
| Like LeBron James vis-Ã -vis Kobe Bryant | 42 |
| Like Lecter | 11 |
| Like lederhosen | 15 |
| Like left-hand page numbers | 27 |
| Like left-side book pages | 25 |
| Like leftover beer | 18 |
| Like leftover chips | 19 |
| Like leftover snacks | 20 |
| Like leftovers | 14 |
| Like leftovers, often | 21 |
| Like leg warmers and Nehru jackets | 34 |
| Like legal pad paper | 20 |
| Like legal pads | 15 |
| Like legal proceedings held before going to court | 49 |
| Like legal voters | 17 |
| Like legends | 12 |
| Like Legolas in "The Lord of the Rings" | 49 |
| Like Legree | 11 |
| Like legumes | 12 |
| Like Lehar's "Widow" | 34 |
| Like Leif Ericson | 17 |
| Like Leif Eriksson | 18 |
| Like leisure suits | 18 |
| Like leisure suits and phonographs | 34 |
| Like leisurely vacations | 24 |
| Like lemon juice | 16 |
| Like lemon juice (var.) | 23 |
| Like lemonade | 13 |
| Like lemonade sans sugar | 24 |
| Like lemons | 11 |
| Like lemons and limes | 21 |
| Like lemurs | 11 |
| Like Lendl's lobs | 21 |
| Like Lennon/McCartney songs | 27 |
| Like Leno | 9 |
| Like Leno's monologues | 26 |
| Like Leno's patter | 22 |
| Like Leo | 8 |
| Like Leo's neck | 19 |
| Like Leonard Cohen's singing | 32 |
| Like leopards | 13 |
| Like leotards | 13 |
| Like leprechaun and four-leaf clover decorations | 48 |
| Like leprechauns | 16 |
| Like Lerner's "Day" | 33 |
| Like Leroy Anderson's musical cat | 37 |
| Like Leroy Brown | 16 |
| Like Leroy Brown, in a Jim Croce song | 37 |
| Like Leroy Brown, so the song says | 34 |
| Like Les Brown's band | 25 |
| Like Lesbos and Lemnos | 22 |
| Like less-caloric chicken pieces | 32 |
| Like lesser-known actors | 24 |
| Like lessons at Eton | 20 |
| Like Lethbridge | 15 |
| Like Letterman lines | 20 |
| Like Letterman's front teeth | 32 |
| Like Letterman's pet tricks | 31 |
| Like Letterman's show | 25 |
| Like letters from Lenin | 23 |