| Lightning in the middle of a hurricane? | 39 |
| Like churches serving two denominations | 39 |
| Layoff that results in a secret affair? | 39 |
| Like an athlete who wins a title match? | 39 |
| Loren's "The ___ Pilgrim" | 39 |
| Las Vegas Entertainer of the Year Danny | 39 |
| Longtime N.C.A.A. basketball powerhouse | 39 |
| Larry the Cable Guy's autobiography | 39 |
| Like a not-quite-ready computer program | 39 |
| Lady's Book publisher: 19th century | 39 |
| Lehane crime novel about a missing girl | 39 |
| Like the accent in "crème" | 39 |
| Like many a "CSI" crime scene | 39 |
| Like Siberian winters, compared to ours | 39 |
| Led Zep "___ to (Roy) Harper" | 39 |
| Laszlo player in "Casablanca" | 39 |
| Line in a bad Jerry Lewis impersonation | 39 |
| Like someone needing a lot of attention | 39 |
| Like 14% of the nationÂ’s population | 39 |
| Luxury liner trip for fans of Sherlock? | 39 |
| Like Olivia Newton-John's last name | 39 |
| Like a ship trapped in the Arctic Ocean | 39 |
| Like the problem of squaring the circle | 39 |
| Lennon hit appropriate for this puzzle? | 39 |
| Long Island town with a weather station | 39 |
| Last name of a trio of singing brothers | 39 |
| Larry & Carrie's favorite bird? | 39 |
| Linda's role in "Dynasty" | 39 |
| Landed peasant in the czars' Russia | 39 |
| Land toward which the wind blows a ship | 39 |
| Like a grenade reaching a bunker, maybe | 39 |
| Lingo heavy on pluralizing with Z's | 39 |
| Like a fuzzy computer image, informally | 39 |
| Lame, with an accompanying hand gesture | 39 |
| Leslie Caron film, with "The" | 39 |
| Laugh-producing game popular since 1958 | 39 |
| Lenny Bruce's comedian mother Sally | 39 |
| Learn all about the capital of Ecuador? | 39 |
| Ludlum's "The ___ Circle" | 39 |
| Language family that includes Quiché | 39 |
| Lehár operetta, with "The" | 39 |
| Like some blows to the side of the head | 39 |
| Like five-day workweeks, usually: abbr. | 39 |
| Largest city north of the Arctic Circle | 39 |
| Like Earth before the Manhattan Project | 39 |
| Luxury craft crossing the Atlantic, say | 39 |
| Like some conservative teaching methods | 39 |
| Last king of a united Sweden and Norway | 39 |
| Like students in the Head Start program | 39 |
| Like an infant's fingers, typically | 39 |
| Like the wars between Carthage and Rome | 39 |
| Like many "knock-knock" jokes | 39 |
| Like some equations solved in Algebra I | 39 |
| La -- (southern California resort city) | 39 |
| Liz Taylor movie "___ County" | 39 |
| Lifts one's front legs, horse-style | 39 |
| Like Disney's "Enchanted" | 39 |
| Like British soldiers in the Revolution | 39 |
| Location of a British driver's seat | 39 |
| Literary synonym for "tailor" | 39 |
| Like "Gulliver's Travels" | 39 |
| Like Britain's Private Eye magazine | 39 |
| Literally, "if it must be so" | 39 |
| Literary name for part of Great Britain | 39 |
| Lily that's Utah's state flower | 39 |
| Like Playboy's Playmate of the Year | 39 |
| LaBeouf of the last Indiana Jones movie | 39 |
| Large family's dwelling, in a rhyme | 39 |
| Like the village blacksmith's hands | 39 |
| Longtime Chicago Tribune movie reviewer | 39 |
| Like a certain period of burrowed time? | 39 |
| Like much of the Danube's territory | 39 |
| Leonard __: Roy Rogers's birth name | 39 |
| Longfellow's "mighty man" | 39 |
| Liszt's "Harmonies du __" | 39 |
| Last word in some family business names | 39 |
| Lemmon's "Missing" costar | 39 |
| Last word of South Carolina's motto | 39 |
| Life time of comic hero with pop singer | 39 |
| Like something you might get stuck with | 39 |
| Like a little old lady in tennis shoes? | 39 |
| Lottery winner's reaction, perhaps? | 39 |
| Literally, "resplendent land" | 39 |
| Leap into a crowd of rowdy concertgoers | 39 |
| Laurel of "The Flying Deuces" | 39 |
| Lincoln's pre-Presidential opponent | 39 |
| Like old schoolmasters, stereotypically | 39 |
| Little brat uses needles and wool again | 39 |
| Lines descending from a common ancestor | 39 |
| Lingerie shopping assistants, at times? | 39 |
| Lehman's "The Inside ___" | 39 |
| Lindsey's predecessor in the Senate | 39 |
| Longtime Lakers color commentator Lantz | 39 |
| Letters on a billet-doux's envelope | 39 |
| Last word of the first song of the year | 39 |
| Long-time Cleveland Orchestra conductor | 39 |
| Literally, "gem of buildings" | 39 |
| Letters in the song "Respect" | 39 |
| Least-likely invite to the office party | 39 |
| Letters before "Friday's" | 39 |