The SAW on rotated “leaky” Y-cuts LiTaO3 and LiNbO3 is a dominantly localized near surface slow shear-horizontal wave, which is weakly coupled to the fast shear bulk wave. Any surface perturbation can lead to radiation of bulk-acoustic waves from the device, increasing losses. To minimize this radiation, LSAW resonators are typically synchronous, with all electrodes in the IDT and in the reflectors having the same periodicity and shape. Moreover, the crystal cut and the thickness of the metallization are typically optimized to minimize the acoustic radiation [1]. We show here that the ends of the IDTs can be a source of bulk wave radiation and, hence, cause additional losses, similar to known effect of the leaky SAW scattering on gaps between IDTs.