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- Lexus rival
- Liability's opposite
- Liam Neeson action trilogy
- "Lies and the Lying ___ Who Tell Them" (Al Franken book)
- Lift
- Lifted
- Light brown and dull, as hair
- Light on one's feet
- Light purple
- Light show tool
- "Light" weapon
- Light-filled lobbies
- Like "ad hoc" or "ad hominem"
- Like "status quo" and "mea culpa"
- Like 20 Questions questions
- Like 2011, 2017 and 2027
- Like 97% of the United States, per the Census Bureau
- "Like ___!" ("Whatever!")
- Like a baby's fingers, perhaps
- Like a bad apple
- Like a beaver, in a saying
- Like a bubble bath
- Like a chill wind
- Like a commanding lead?
- Like a faithful friend
- Like a fired-up sports crowd
- Like a good explanation, say
- Like a good sponge cake
- Like a good tree or a bad deal
- Like a groan-inducing joke
- Like a juicy fruit
- Like a lion's coat
- Like a lot
- Like a loud crowd
- Like a parkour practitioner
- Like a passionate solver discovering a filled-in airline magazine crossword, say
- Like a post that's been shared a bajillion times
- Like a pyramid or sphere
- Like a revving engine
- "Like a Rolling Stone" singer
- Like a run that sends the game into extra innings, say
- Like a scratchy voice
- Like a skunk's tail
- Like a voluminous winter jacket
- Like a whodunit in which the butler did it [duh!]
- Like a wobbly screw
- Like about 80% of Indians, religiously
- Like about 88% of the U.A.E.'s residents
- Like Amazon forests, typically
- Like an authoritarian
- Like an Islay single malt, to Scotch enthusiasts
- Like an overtired toddler
- Like an S-Tier video game character
- Like an unpleasant, mocking comment
- Like an untouched attic
- Like beer from the tap, often
- Like black opals vis-à-vis diamonds
- Like Buffalo, N.Y., about 167 days a year, typically
- Like cabernet sauvignon vis-à-vis white zinfandel
- Like clothes in the hamper
- Like contact lenses for astigmatism
- Like darts
- Like early PC graphics
- Like ears and brains
- Like elephants distinguished by their smaller rounded ears
- Like expired parking meters
- Like eyes during an allergy attack
- Like F, in the alphabet
- Like flapjacks and Frisbees
- Like flickers and flamingos
- Like fondue, traditionally
- Like foods that increase thirst
- Like granola
- Like harem pants
- Like He and Xe
- Like hedgehogs and cacti
- Like Inspector Clouseau, despite all of his successes
- Like jerk chicken and chicken vindaloo
- Like jerky and dried fruit
- Like krypton
- Like lotus root and wax apples
- Like many a campfire story
- Like many bodybuilders, according to B.M.I. alone
- Like many dive bars and bird feeds
- Like many drama school students
- Like many English bogs
- Like many green mouthwashes
- Like many houses
- Like many Mormons
- Like many mustaches in film
- Like many replays in sports
- Like many ruins in Belize
- Like many working horses, but not many working dogs
- Like marshes
- Like milk that isn't worth crying over
- Like most autographs
- Like most manuscript submissions
- Like most of Mauritania and Malaysia, religiously
- Like music that sounds good to the ear
- Like novices
- Like Olympic pools
- Like one's feet after a beach day
- Like parts of Istanbul
- Like Peruvian pyramids
- Like purchases made while playing freemium games
- Like raw footage
- Like San Francisco, frequently
- Like Snoop Dogg, faith-wise, when he changed his name to Snoop Lion
- Like some allergy sprays
- Like some breath
- Like some buns and bedrooms
- Like some car exteriors and hairy legs
- Like some cars parked next to "No Parking" signs
- Like some columns and bonds
- Like some enemies
- Like some flaws
- Like some gins and cleaning products
- Like some humor that's more likely to elicit a chuckle than a guffaw
- Like some ironed shirts and fall air
- Like some kitchens
- Like some light hair and light ales
- Like some martinis and jokes
- Like some milk, idiomatically
- Like some minor celebrities
- Like some novelty straws
- Like some on-the-go purchases
- Like some passages
- Like some Quaker products
- Like some soils high in organic matter
- Like some suits
- Like some textiles
- Like some undercover detectives
- Like some upper lips and drinks
- Like some walls at Harvard and Dartmouth
- Like some wide-open spaces
- Like some wine and Christmas presents
- Like some wine barrels
- Like some wine casks
- Like some wolfhounds and whiskeys
- Like someone who knows everything about a niche subject, maybe
- Like Staten Island, among all N.Y.C. boroughs in population
- Like sticky summer weather
- Like streakers
- Like terrain that's good for sledding
- Like the accents in "déclassé"
- Like the appearance of armadillos and anacondas
- Like the areas beyond suburbia
- Like the Asian elephant vis-à-vis the African elephant
- Like the bread used for croutons
- Like the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey
- Like the crying face emoji
- Like the descendants of some dinosaurs
- Like the exteriors of armadillos
- Like the force of an armada
- Like the glass in many a Dale Chihuly sculpture
- Like the groaner wordplay in dad jokes
- Like the ingredients in a French chef's mirepoix
- Like the Islamic calendar
- Like the jungle at daybreak
- Like the most famous Hollywood celebrities
- Like the music of Rick James and James Brown
- Like the number of Oscars vis-à-vis the number of Emmys
- Like the origins of Buddhism and Hinduism
- Like the outfield walls of Wrigley Field
- Like the phrase "pen gwyn" ("white head"), from which the penguin gets its name
- Like the pope's guards
- Like the skin of a durian fruit
- Like the skin of snakes and fish
- Like the Statue of Liberty at night
- Like the strawberry champagne in Bruno Mars's "That's What I Like"
- Like the Taj Mahal and the Hagia Sophia, architecturally
- Like the taste of browned butter
- Like the taste of many I.P.A.s
- Like the texture of fine bedsheets
- Like the Vietnamese language
- Like the villain at the end of a "Scooby-Doo" episode
- Like throwback fashion
- Like throwbacks
- Like triplets vis-à-vis twins
- Like tungsten
- Like un homme with a Napoleon complex
- Like untended plots
- Like winters in Buffalo and Boulder
- Like zebras, but not tigers
- Likely gonna
- Likes and dislikes, collectively
- Lilac, e.g.
- Limber
- Lincolnesque, in a way
- Linda of the band 4 Non Blondes
- Line for Lassie
- Line running roughly parallel to Interstate 95
- Lines in mines
- Lines some over draw
- Lineup
- Linger (on), as a topic
- Lingo
- "Link" in a botanical chain
- Linking point
- Lipstick blunder
- Liqueur herb
- Liquor, informally
- List included with a board game
- List of candidates
- List that might have check boxes
- Listing on a W-2 form
- Listlessness
- Lit
- Lit class assignment
- Lit for fun, e.g.
- Literally, "the god"
- Literary protagonist who "generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it)"
- Little bit of dust
- Little flourish on a letter
- Little laugh
- Little redhead in a long-running Broadway show
- Little reminders
- Little scamp
- Little specifics, in slang
- Littlest bits
- Live
- Live (in)
- "Live and ___"
- Living ___
- Loathe
- Locale for camel racing
- Locale of a semiannual fashion week
- Locales for some urban gardens
- Loci
- Lock
- Lock combinations?
- Lock of hair
- Locker room emanations
- Locks up?
- Log ___ (water park ride)
- Loggers' competition
- Logic components in electric circuits
- Logo of the W.N.B.A.'s New York Liberty
- Lollipop holder
- Long (for)
- Long ___, Calif.
- Long look
- Long members of the onion family
- Long stories
- Long, detailed tales
- Long-___ squid
- Long-feathered flier
- Long-stemmed mushroom
- Longest river in South Asia (~2,000 miles)
- Longs (for)
- Longtime "Inside the NBA" analyst opposite Barkley
- Longtime "Saturday Night Live" announcer Don
- Longtime jazz bandleader with an Egyptian-inspired name
- Longtime Saints QB Drew ___
- Longtime Stallone role
- Longtime Supreme Court justice Frankfurter
- Longtime Tribeca restaurant where some say the Cosmopolitan was invented, with "the"
- Look at this!
- Look with a curled lip
- Looking for a fight, informally
- Looks below the surface?
- "Looks good to me," tersely
- Loose-cheeked, as a mastiff
- Lords' lands
- Lose a staring contest
- Lose it
- Loses emotional control, in gamer-speak
- Loses some hair, e.g.
- Losing causes?
- Losing propositions?
- Lost
- ___ Louis Gates Jr., host of PBS's "Finding Your Roots"
- Love a lot
- "Love in This Club" singer, 2008
- Love of Bologna
- Love of Italy?
- Love seats, e.g.
- Love, in Lyon
- Love, Italian-style
- Love, love, love
- Love, to a Frenchman
- Lovely, as a lass
- Lover boy in the House of Montague
- Lower leg bone
- Lowlands
- Lowly sorts
- LPs and 45s
- Lt. ___, communications officer on the original "Star Trek"
- Lucas's younger sister on "Stranger Things"
- "___ luck!"
- Lukewarm, as support
- Lumps in non-homogenized milk
- Lungs or liver
- Luxury fashion house based in Paris
- Luxury handbag brand
- Luxury Swiss watch brand
- Lying face down
- "m" or "n"
- M.L.B. shortstop Miguel
- Macaroni shape
- ___ macchiato (espresso drink)
- Machines in some print shops
- Macronutrient group?
- Made a basic math calculation
- Made a boo-boo
- Made a mistake
- Made eyes at in the manner of a satyr
- Made hay?
- Made less severe
- Made muffs
- Made some sounds in "Old MacDonald Had a Farm"
- Madison Square Garden, e.g.
- Madrid mister
- Madrid's ___ Sofía Museum
- Magic charms
- "Magic" items for Jack, in a classic fairy tale
- Magna ___
- Magnetic unit named for an inventor
- Mail, as payment
- Main ideas
- Maintains
- Majestic
- Major Iraqi port city
- Major metropolis on a bay of the same name
- Major purchase that might come with a down payment
- Majorca and Minorca
- Make a case (for)
- Make a copy of
- Make a delivery, in a way
- Make a delivery, say
- Make a right turn?
- Make accustomed (to)
- Make amends
- Make dirty
- Make extremely happy
- Make furious
- Make into law
- Make laugh
- Make over, as a factory
- Make right
- Make some introductions, say
- "Make that two!"
- Make up for one's sins
- Make up for past transgressions
- Maker of Bikini So Teeny nail polish
- Maker of the Hacky Sack and Hula-Hoop
- Makers of frightening but (thankfully) rare marine attacks
- Makes a sullen face
- Makes do for a while?
- Makeup of a reef
- Making a plate appearance
- Malaise, with "the"
- Malarkey
- Mammal that enjoys using a muddy riverbank as a slide
- Mammal with a long ringed tail
- Mammal with webbed feet
- Man who made animals talk
- Man's name that means "prosperous" in Arabic
- Man's name whose first four letters spell a word describing its last letter
- "Mangia!"
- Manicurist's board
- Manicurist's filing board
- Manipulates dishonestly
- Manner in which sports replays are shown, familiarly
- Mantra
- Manuscript marks
- Many a 24-hour eatery
- Many a baby food
- Many a character on "Breaking Bad"
- Many a character on "The Pitt," informally
- Many a Chilango
- Many a David Foster Wallace piece
- Many a John Williams composition
- Many a mailbox locale
- Many a middle schooler
- Many a musical chord
- Many a political piece
- Many a Porsche 911
- Many a printer
- Many a private investigator
- Many a rosé wine
- Many a Starbucks flavoring
- Many a wearer of a long robe called a thawb
- Many an Olive Garden entree
- Many buildings on campus
- Many characters in the 2007 comedy "Superbad"
- Many emails with urgent, all-caps requests
- Many first-time smartphone owners
- Many first-time voters
- Many members of Kuwait's al-Sabah royal line
- Many men on dating shows
- Many Moroccans
- Many-eyed giant of Greek myth
- ___ map
- Map lines
- ___ Maradona, Argentine soccer legend
- Marathoner's woe
- Marbled gemstone
- Marginalia, e.g.
- Marine apex predators
- Mario's dinosaur sidekick
- Mario's video game brother
- Mark down, say
- Mark on a freshly polished shoe
- Mark who wrote "Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired"
- Market for currencies, informally
- Marketplace of ancient Greece
- Mars comes third in it
- Mars follower, in Marseille
- Marsh plants
- Marsupial often mistermed a "bear"
- Marsupial that sleeps up to 20 hours a day
- Martial art whose name means "way of the sword"
- Martial art with bamboo swords
- Martial arts studios
- Martian explorer
- Martini garnish
- Marvel Comics villain with an explosive superpower
- Marvel superhero who can manipulate weather patterns
- Mary or Elizabeth
- Mass
- Massachusetts county in which the term "gerrymandering" was first applied
- Massive
- Massive amounts of winnings, so to speak
- Massive success
- Masters
- Masters of manipulation
- Mastery
- Matchmaker in "Fiddler on the Roof"
- Matchmaking site with a "synagogue attendance" filter
- Material for a ceramicist
- Material for a lecture
- Material for a reusable diaper
- Material for the blue eyebrows on the mask of Tutankhamen, in brief
- Material in reusable diapers
- Material refined through the Bessemer process
- Materialized
- Mathematician Paul
- Matt of "Oppenheimer"
- Matter to mull over
- Maturity approaching
- Maximum poker bet
- Maya Angelou's "Phenomenal ___"
- [Mayday! Mayday!]
- "Me too," formally
- Meager measure of compassion?
- Mean facial expression
- Mean-mugging look
- Meanders
- Means of getting trash to a basement dumpster
- Measure around the middle
- Measure of alcoholic content
- Measure up to, as in competition
- Measurement around the waist
- Meat-on-a-stick dish in Southeast Asia
- Meaty meal
- Medgar ___, one inspiration for the 1964 protest anthem "Mississippi Goddam"
- Media sales agent, in brief
- Medication order from a doctor, for short
- Medicinal plants
- Medieval cure-all
- Medieval stringed instruments
- Medium for some ephemeral art
- "___, meenie, miney, mo"
- Meetings in virtual "rooms"
- Mega-
- Megastar's venue
- Meh … or medium-temp
- Mell Lazarus comic strip that ran for 46 years
- Member of a militant Islamist movement in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Member of a noble family
- Member of the genus Pongo, informally
- Member of the winning 2025 Super Bowl team
- Members of the dolphin family that prey on dolphins
- Membership categories
- Memorable saying
- Memorial ___ Kettering (New York City medical facility)
- Menacing look
- Mental slip-up
- Mentally overpower, with "out"
- Mentally with it
- Mentioned
- Mentors
- Menzel of Broadway
- Menzel with a Tony for "Wicked"
- Mercury, Venus or Mars
- Merely hinted at
- Mertens of tennis
- Meshed (with)
- Messed (with)
- Messed up
- Messing around on TV?
- Messing up on the big screen
- Messy mix-up
- Metal block falling on Wile E. Coyote's head
- Metal mixture
- Metal pins on a bulletin board
- Metal-shaping tool
- Metallurgist's evaluation
- Metaphor for a bad goalie
- Metaphorical beginning or ending
- Metaphorical place of indecision
- Meter reading
- Metric unit of weight
- Mexican milk
- Mexican mister
- Mexican sandwich
- Mexican street corn
- Mexican street food typically served with cheese, chili and lime
- Michael ___, Steve Carell's role on "The Office"
- Michael nominated for Oscars in five different decades
- Michael of "The Man Who Would Be King"
- Michaels of "Saturday Night Live"
- Mickey Mouse's pet dog
- Microphone inventor ___ Berliner
- Microwaved
- Mid-March V.I.P., informally
- Middle of a drum kit, typically
- Middle of the human body
- Middle section of the body
- Mideast currency
- Mideast language
- Mideast leaders
- Mideast nation ruled by the House of Thani
- "Midnight Cowboy" con man
- Midsection measurement
- Midway Airport alternative
- Midwest birthplace of Marlon Brando
- Midwest city where Malcolm X was born
- Mike in "Breaking Bad," for example
- Mike or Michael in movies
- Mike who voiced Shrek in "Shrek"
- Milan's La ___
- Milan's land
- Milieu for bathyspheres, with "the"
- Military cap
- Military deserters, in brief
- Military hats that may be worn with epaulets
- Milkshake mix-ins that might get stuck in your straw
- Milky coffee drink
- Milky Way bits
- ___ Millan, celebrity dog trainer
- Mimicking
- Minced oath
- Minced-meat cake
- Minimal
- Minimal coverage provider?
- Minimum or maximum
- Minimum, in a way
- Minor snafu
- Minority group in Iraq and Turkey
- Mint ___ (classic cocktail)
- Minute amounts
- "Miracle on 34th Street" actress Maureen
- Miracle on the ___ (surprise French/English victory of W.W. I)
- Mischievous fairy
- Mislead
- Misleading poker bet
- Miss badly, maybe
- Miss Doolittle of "Pygmalion"
- Missing animal in "Zootopia"
- Mixed-breed dogs
- "Mob Psycho 100" genre
- Mobile stand at a meeting
- ___ mode (battery-saving state)
- Model airplane material
- Modern ending with You
- Modern way of creating images and text, for short
- Mohamed ___, Egyptian soccer star
- Moistens, as a fern
- Moisturizing product
- Molars and canines
- ___ mold
- Molière's or Mamet's field
- Molten rock in a volcano
- ___ moment
- Moment of high spirits?
- Momentary slip
- Monarch's official decree
- Monastic superior
- Money in Reykjavík
- Money in rock ’n' roll
- Money market account figures
- Monk's home
- Monotonous hum
- Monsieur, in Madrid
- Month when the N.B.A. and N.H.L. playoffs start, typically
- ___ Montoya, "The Princess Bride" character
- ___ Montoya, "The Princess Bride" swordsman
- Montréal traffic sign
- Moon believed to have a subsurface ocean
- Moon's path
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