Letter L
Like a game going into overtime
Like a game going into sudden death
Like a game headed into overtime
Like a game heading into extra innings
Like a game heading into overtime
Like a game heading into sudden death
Like a hockey game heading into a shoot-out
Like a metronomic beat.
Like a tie score
Like a tied score
Like a two-and-two count
Like all bra band sizes
Like all federal election years
Like all known perfect numbers
Like all leap years
Like an Olympic year
Like certain odds, paradoxically
Like congressional election years
Like each answer in this puzzle - also each word in each clue - in length
Like every leap year
Like every other integer
Like every other number
Like every other positive integer
Like exactly one prime number
Like four or a score
Like half of the integers
Like left-hand page numbers
Like left-side book pages
Like most Olympic years
Like n, where n = 2k (and "k" is a whole number)
Like numbers divisible by two
Like only one prime
Like only one prime number
Like presidential election years
Like scoreless games at halftime
Like some money
Like some numbers and scores
Like some odds, ironically
Like some odds, oxymoronically
Like some oxymoronic odds
Like some splits
Like teams heading into overtime
Like the number of answers in a crossword, usually
Like the number of this clue
Like the numbers 2, 4 and 6
Like the score 20-20
Like the score for the first play of a Scrabble game
Like the smallest prime number
Like the sums of two primes in Goldbach's conjecture
Like this clue number
Like this clue's number
Like tour that doesn't make money
Like two or four
Like two, but not one
Like two, but not three or five
Like two, four or six
Like two, not one
Like two, say
Like two, twenty-two, and two hundred and twenty-two
Like well-trimmed bangs
Like whole numbers after they're multiplied by two
Like zero
___ little (to any extent)
Laid smooth.
Leveled (out)
Leveled off
levelled
Less biased
Less bumpy
Less irregular
Less jagged
Less lopsided
Less unsteady.
Level, essentially
Leveling device
Leveling instrument
Leveling tool
Leveling tool, e.g.
Like 50/50 vis-à-vis 60/40
Least bumpy
Least out-of-line
LATE hours
Latter part of the day
Like very few newspapers these days
Lady's formal wear
Lady's formalwear
Late-shift laundry job?
Leaving no remainder
Leaving no remainder, in an arithmetic problem
Like some bets
Large group of numbers?
Level odds
Levels (off)
Levels (out)
level betting
Late afternoon church service
Late-day prayer
Late-day religious service
Late-day prayers
Leaderless?
Large social gathering, e.g.
Long jump or 100-meter dash
Long jump, e.g.
*Lists of wrestling matches, say
Like artiodactyls (pigs, sheep, deer, etc.)
"Let us now go ___"
Level out
Like a one-for-one swap
" . . . lived happily __ after"
"Loving" and "lasting" leader
Last word in the Lord's Prayer, before "Amen"
Last word of a three-word declaration that's often, for some reason, turned into three one-word sentences
Last word of the 23rd Psalm
Lasting attachment
Lasting beginning?
Lasting introduction
Lasting lead-in?
Lasting leader
Lasting start
Lasting starter
Lasting word?
Less than never?
Loving introduction
Loving leader
Loving or green
Lincoln's co-speaker at Gettysburg
large area of submerged marshland
Largest subtropical wilderness reserve in North America
Landscaping item
Laurel and ivy.
Laurels, e.g.
Last name of musical brothers Don and Phil
Last word of a famous poem.
lichen, genus
Last name in civil rights
Lady with a great racket
Legendary Chris of the courts
Lloyd's maiden name
Longtime Navratilova rival
Liverpool football club
Liverpool football team
Liverpool soccer team
Liverpool team
"Lift ___ Voice and Sing"
"__ Little Kiss": 1987 hit
"__ little bit helps"
"___ Little Thing" (Alex Blumberg and Ayana Elizabeth Johnson podcast)
"___ little breeze . . . "
"_____ Little Movement" (Dorsey Brothers hit)
Lifehouse: "___ Somebody"
Loaded bakery item
Loaded roll
Liquid repetition in abundance
Lead-in days
Lead-in periods
Lead-ins to big days
Lead-ins to holidays
Lead-up times
Leading periods
"Live Young" water brand
"Live young" sloganeer
Lake Geneva resort
Lake Geneva spa
Lake of Geneva resort
Lake of Geneva spa.
___-les-Bains, spa town on Lake Geneva
Landlord's action
Landlord's last resort
Landlord's ouster
Landlord's threat
Landlord's weapon
Landlord, at times
Lawyer's delight.
Little Evelyn.
Last word of the Lord's Prayer
Lesser or greater thing, in a moral quandary
Like Apollyon
Like Austin Powers' nemesis
Like Beelzebub
Like Bond foes
Like Cruella de Vil
Like Darth
Like Darth Maul
Like Darth Vader
Like Darth Vader Daughter of
Like Dr. Facilier or Shan Yu
Like Edmund in "King Lear"
Like Hannibal Lecter
Like Hannibal Lecter and Voldemort
Like Hela and Thanos
Like IT, in "A Wrinkle in Time"
Like Iago and Voldemort
Like Iago, say
Like James Bond antagonists
Like Jekyll's alter ego
Like Lecter
Like Lex Luthor
Like Lex Luthor or the Green Goblin
Like Lord Voldemort
Like Lucifer
Like Michael Myers of "Halloween"
Like Mr. Hyde
Like Mr. Hyde, e.g.
Like Old Nick
Like Old Scratch.
Like Professor Moriarty
Like Satan
Like Satan and his minions
Like Scar or Jafar
Like Scar, in "The Lion King"
Like Snidely Whiplash
Like Thanos in the Marvel universe
Like Voldemort
Like Walter White
Like a "mwa-ha-ha" laugh
Like a good horror film villain
Like a good villain
Like a hellkite
Like a horror film villain
Like a jezebel
Like a predictable twin in horror films
Like a sadistic puzzle maker
Like a sadistic puzzlemaker
Like a soap opera twin
Like a soap opera twin, sometimes
Like a stereotypical fairy-tale stepmother
Like a superhero's archenemy
Like a supervillain
Like a twin in horror films
Like a twin in horror movies
Like a villain
Like a witch's eye
Like crossword writers who make you sweat and Google, e.g.
Like fairy tale stepmothers
Like foes of 007
Like good foes?
Like hellhounds
Like malevolent spirits
Like many a movie genius
Like many a movie twin
Like many a soap opera twin
Like many a witch's spell
Like one soap-opera twin
Like some fictional twins
Like some film geniuses
Like some grins or twins
Like some movie twins
Like some omens
Like some spirits
Like some twins
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