Letter L
Less likely to win the race
Less prompt.
Like a runner-up, often
Like aging on the International Space Station vis-a-vis on Earth
Like larghissimo compared with largo
Like largo with respect to adagio
Like rail vis-à-vis air
Like right-lane traffic, usually
Like the tortoise, vis-a-vis the hare
Larghissimo, among all musical tempos
Last at Belmont Park
Last at Daytona, say
Last one in, competitively
Last to finish
Least fleet
Least precipitate.
Least progressive
Like right-lane traffic. Typically
Like the last in a dash
Like the last place finisher
Like the rightmost lane on a highway
Like the three-toed sloth, among all animals
Late party arrivals?
Like traffic approaching construction
Larghetto
Luther Vandross or Anita Baker songs, e.g.
Leisurely lyricist?
*Like replays that reveal bad calls
Leisureliness
Leisurely voyages.
Like senior softball
Laggards in a line
*Like a weakly hit ground ball
Lessens one's pace
Loses speed
Loses velocity
lessens the speed of
Lose speed
Like an awful stand-up comedian?
Lens sys.
Lensman's acronym
Letters on cameras
LUMP in fibers/fibres
Lump in yarn
lump in yarn or fabric
land snail with no shell
like snail
line type
Lazy Mary, for instance.
Lead items?
Lines of type
Lines of type in one piece, from a linotype machine.
Lumbermill viaduct.
LOW section of a city
Live beneath one's station
Logged Z's
Living well below your means... for now
Losing period
Long periods of hitlessness
Launched, like the stone that slew Goliath
Like hash in diners
Like mud in election season
Like the stone that slew Goliath
"Lying thief," e.g.
Legato effect
Legato effect in music.
Legato indicator
Legato mark
Legato symbol on a score
Libelous remark
Line in music
Lush way of speaking?
Loudly enjoy some udon
Loudly enjoy soup
Loving licks from Odie
Like a drunk's speech
Like a sot's speech
Like drink-affected speech
Like drunken speech
Legato effects
Legato markings
Legatos
Like an unlucky winter Pedestrian Law-breaking
Like an unlucky winter pedestrian
Like pedestrians on winter streets, maybe
Like unfortunate winter pedestrians
Like a warm day in winter, perhaps
Like many a winter road
Like many ski slopes in April
Like melting snow
Like mixed precipitation
Like some curbs in winter
Like some puddles in winter
Like some winter sidewalks
Like some winter walkways
Like some wintry road conditions
Like the ground a few days post-snow
Like wet snow
Like winter roads during a thaw
Lacking candor
Leader of The Family Stone
Less than straight
Liable to pull a fast one
Like Fagin
Like Renard
Like Stallone?
Like Volpone
Like a cartoon fox, often
Like a certain grin or wink
Like a clever devil
Like a footsie player
Like a fox (or a dog, sometimes)
Like a fox or a dog
Like a fox, it's said
Like a human "dog"
Like a sneak
Like a sneaky devil
Like a three-card monte player
Like a trickster
Like a wink
Like a wink or a nudge, maybe
Like good pickpockets
Like innuendo
Like some digs
Like some dogs and devils
Like some dogs that are people?
Like some grins or winks
Like some looks
Like some winks
Like some winks and grins
Like some winks or grins
Like someone who may be hiding something
Like the Artful Dodger
Like the Smirking Face emoji
Low-key sneaky
Leonard __ (Roy Rogers)
Leonard __: Roy Rogers's birth name
Leonard ___ (Roy Rogers's real name)
Leonard ___ a.k.a. Roy Rogers
Leonard ___, a k a Roy Rogers
Leonard _____, alias Roy Rogers
Less apt to be straight
Less naïve
Least ingenuous
Least likely to get duped
Least open
Least transparent
Like the fox, among all animals
Letters denoting a garment size
Like a Scottish young 'un
Like a Shetland pony
Like a babe in Glasgow
Like a bairn
Like a wee bairn
Like many a bairn
Like wee bairns
Little of Scotland
Little on a loch
Little, by a loch
Little, in "Holy Willie's Prayer"
Little, in Aberdeen
Little, in Dundee.
Little, in Glasgow
Little, in Lanark
Little, in Leith
Little, in Lockerbie
Little, in Lothian
Little, in Scotland
Little, in the Lowlands
Little, to Burns
Little, to Lachlan
Little, to Robert Burns
Little, to Sandy
Little, to a Scot
Little, to a lass
Little, to a lassie
Little,to a Highlander
little Scottish
Lips sound
Loud kiss
Loud kiss sound
Loud lip noise
Loud slap
Loud kisses
Loud osculations
Lennie's ironic surname in "Of Mice and Men"
Less than regular
Like Hop-o'-My-Thumb
Like a bantam
Like fine print
Like poppy seeds
Like potatoes that aren't worth fretting over
Like some talk or print
Like the Lilliputians
Lower-case
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
little or minor
Local economy makeup ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme
Legal venue for nickel and dime cases?
Less bulky
Less huge
Like New Zealand vis-à-vis New Jersey, by population
Like a downsized company
Like molehills, vis-a-vis mountains
Least gigantic
Least of all
Like "Little Rhody"
Like Luxembourg, among European Union members
Little one in a large pond
Like a railroad with narrow tracks
Like some thin earrings
Lowercase letter with a dot
Longest parts of the alimentary canal
Lowercase vowel
Lines to read carefully
Little woodcut?
Lilliputians.
Little collectibles
Like toy trains
Little stem
Last character seen in "Hamlet"
Limited in outlook.
Lass awed by the big city, maybe
*Likely inexpensive place to get one's hair done
Lana Lang's home town
Like a snake oil salesman, and then some
Like a yes-man
Like an emcee who's overdoing it
"Light rail" vehicles
Lead-in to "home" or "phone"
Like "Jeopardy!" contestants
Like 4.0 students
Like Einstein
Like Octavia Spencer's character in "Thunder Force" (hint: she wears glasses)
Like a Mensan
Like a Whip
Like a WiFi-enabled toaster
Like a brainiac
Like a fridge probably loaded with spyware, e.g.
Like a member of Mensa
Like a member of Mensa Canada
Like a straight A student
Like a valedictorian
Like crossword puzzle solvers
Like crossword solvers, naturally
Like grade skippers
Like home devices with advanced capabilities
Like many appliances in modern homes
Like many bombs and cards
Like many phones nowadays
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