Clues

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Leakes of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" 52
Leader who claimed to have put a fatal curse on J.F.K. 54
Lake that's the "true head" of the Mississippi 60
Last word of "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" 57
Literary figure whose name is a letter short of something he wrote 66
Length of a "Godfather" marathon, perhaps? 52
Language in which "mountain" is "fynydd" 60
Lagerlof's ''The Wonderful Adventures of ___'' 66
Last test before starting some advanced deg. programs 53
Loser to King in the "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match 65
Lead-in to ''plunk'' or ''plop'' 64
Like a baseball player who couldn't find his way to the field? 66
Like the "Iliad" or the "Odyssey" 53
Like Petruchio's wench in "The Taming of the Shrew" 65
Like Victor Hugo when he finished "Les Misérables" 63
Led Zep "Said there ain't no ___ in crying" 57
Like the verbs "cast" and "cost": Abbr. 59
Like a triangle with one angle between 90° and 180° 57
Like rescues depicted in Kevin Costner's "The Guardian" 69
Like Saint-Saëns's "Urbs Roma" Symphony 56
Like the northern Antilles Islands vis-à-vis the southern ones 65
Letters used in the catalog indexing for Matador Records 56
Like the perfect working relationship of lazy, lusty, greedy people? 68
Literary question and homophonic inspiration for this puzzle 60
Like proposals in the Politburo that have zero support? 55
Labor gp. whose song asked us to look for their label 53
Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven," e.g. 55
Lead-in for ''graph'' or ''legal'' 66
Lobbying gp. that offers personal protection classes 52
Leela on "Futurama" or any one of the X-Men 53
Longtime "The Price Is Right" model Parkinson 55
Lurid headline about religious figures and a piece of body art 62
Longtime TV host with a 1997 Lifetime Achievement Emmy 54
Literature about Randall Munroe's stick figure drawings? 60
Like sound recordings that aren't sharp, for short 54
Like the Beach Boys' "California Girls" 53
Like all the vowel sounds in "un bon vin blanc" 57
Like the city known as "the Cradle of Gold" 53
Language whence "jungle" and "shampoo" 58
Lucia's brother in "Lucia di Lammermoor" 54
Like Santa's suit after going through the chimney 53
Lovelace who was called "The Enchantress of Numbers" 62
Lee Pace's character on "Pushing Daisies" 55
Longoria-Parker of ''Desperate Housewives'' 59
L.A. rapper whose father is South Africa's National Poet Laureate 69
Like the characters in Christie's "The Mousetrap" 63
Larry who broke the color line in the American League 53
Lawrence Welk's "one"/"two" connector 61
Last name of the "No Country for Old Men" directors 61
Look for bargains (and a hint that explains this puzzle's theme) 68
LIU branch with the slogan "The choice is clear" 58
Lenny portrayer on "Laverne & Shirley" 52
Like the most remote location, to a shivering cold person? 58
Long-running PBS series produced by Newark's channel 13 (WNET) 66
Lange's role in the biopic "Sweet Dreams" 55
Long-legged sea animal seen along the Atlantic Coast 52
Lead role in "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" 58
Laurelin's partner in Tolkien's Two Trees of Valinor 60
Looney Tunes character who appears on some mud flaps 52
Longtime "ABC's Wide World of Sports" host 56
Like yellow-green and red-orange, on the color wheel 52
Lavish "60 Minutes" reporter Lesley with gifts, say? 62
Liqueur whose name means "a little bitter" 52
Lead character on TV's "The Pretender" 52
Lorne Greene in ''Battlestar Galactica'' 56
Like gas tanks and many prescriptions, again and again 54
Lion in Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia" 56
Lead-in to ''choo'' or ''plunk'' 64
Longtime Greenwich Village music venue, with "the" 60
Low spirits, as experienced by St. Louis's hockey team? 59
Longtime "What's My Line?" panelist Francis 57
Lord's Prayer words following "Thy will be done" 62
Like the ''tough'' of a Burt Reynolds film 58
Lew Wallace's "Ben-Hur: ___ of the Christ" 56
Longstanding media logo inspired by a Pennsylvania Dutch hex sign 65
Logo image for "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" 56
Lose one's temper while watching "127 Hours"? 59
Lincoln & Weissmuller; Markey & O'Sullivan 54
Longtime model Parkinson of "The Price Is Right" 58
Limerick, part one: "There was a young lass ___" 58
List of chapters and page numbers at the front of a bk. 55
Lady's feline tormentors in "Lady and the Tramp" 62
Last part of the last name of a ''Dallas'' actress 66
Letters within the theme entries that are, literally, next to nothing 69
Lane portrayed by Kate Bosworth in "Superman Returns" 63
L.A. nightclub where many future stars got their start 54
Language of the national anthem "Qaumi Tarana" 56
Language spoken across the border from southern China 53
Legendary queen of the Britons immortalized by Shakespeare 58
Longtime musical group with a world capital in its name 55
Like a next-door neighbor's lawn, or so it seems 52
Lower septet of black squares in this grid, typographically 59
Les Savy ___ (band that's much better live than on records, IMHO) 69
Language family that includes Ute, Shoshone and Comanche 56
Location of London's "Speakers' Corner" 57
Like most Spanish nouns ending in "a": abbr. 54
Like Sydney Carton at the end of "A Tale of Two Cities" 65
Lennon/Ono's "Happy ___ (War Is Over)" 52
Legal doctrine that bars contradiction of a prior statement 59
Lord John Boyd ___, winner of the 1949 Nobel Peace Prize 56