| labour mp for leicester east from 1987; current chair of the home affairs committee | 83 |
| longest river in africa | 23 |
| louisville slugger, e.g. | 24 |
| lastly | 6 |
| let loose | 9 |
| leave some of the roof overhang! | 32 |
| luxurious | 9 |
| louisa --- alcott, author | 25 |
| leisurely walker | 16 |
| like, say, one urban area without a leader, peculiar thing | 58 |
| le ..., french newspaper | 24 |
| loutish individual | 18 |
| lentil dish | 11 |
| Lets leveret loose on the ground floor | 38 |
| Late time for the bowler to appear? | 35 |
| Letter, ie spelt badly | 22 |
| Lightness of spirit | 19 |
| Luminescent beetle | 18 |
| Legal plea of having been elsewhere | 35 |
| Load to capacity | 16 |
| Lloyd George's followers | 24 |
| Look longer initially at all times | 34 |
| L is for London, for example | 28 |
| Labelled | 8 |
| Lasted | 6 |
| Large peninsula in northern Europe | 34 |
| Large cupboard for storing food | 31 |
| Large brass-band instrument | 27 |
| Luxury motor, for short | 23 |
| look at summer destination in iceland, say | 42 |
| look to bear north-east with winds from west africa | 51 |
| lacking a partner, like a drawn game, apparently | 48 |
| lacking will to overtake republican reaching us highway | 55 |
| Land size measure | 17 |
| Little rascal | 13 |
| Largest continent | 17 |
| Love, in Lima | 13 |
| Legal action | 12 |
| Like some swimsuits | 19 |
| Like old records | 16 |
| Latest thing | 12 |
| Long-distance meas. | 19 |
| Legendary model of purity | 25 |
| Lie low | 7 |
| Luxury boat | 11 |
| like a sheep | 12 |
| location of the alamo | 21 |
| largest digit? | 14 |
| literary sketch | 15 |
| leaders of really upright military police usually suppress disturbance | 70 |
| later, drunk is on the ball | 27 |
| lions, tigers, and bears | 24 |
| luau wreath | 11 |
| like sashimi | 12 |
| live | 4 |
| L.G.B.T.Q.+ pride symbol | 24 |
| letterhead image, maybe | 23 |
| lav | 3 |
| Live ostentatiously | 19 |
| Letter of the law? | 18 |
| Leftover meal crumb | 19 |
| Luke Skywalker's mentor | 23 |
| Like custard | 12 |
| Lilies of the Field Oscar winner, Sidney .. | 43 |
| Like hair payment, included for now | 35 |
| Longfellow might have found clothing in it | 42 |
| Liquid in consistency | 21 |
| Large region of a country or empire | 35 |
| lethal stuff at a liquor centre | 31 |
| latter-day measures of speed | 28 |
| leaves unpackaged? | 18 |
| Lady Gaga repeats this for a song title | 39 |
| Last scene in a movie | 21 |
| Latin word meaning "great" | 26 |
| lectures in zoom meetings at last | 33 |
| lead-free roof on shed could be grey | 36 |
| lga or lax approximation | 24 |
| lead-in to phone or gram | 24 |
| last name of two basketball all-stars of the 1990s | 50 |
| Looks over, positive about five unknown seconds | 47 |
| Low singer. Minnie, maybe! | 26 |
| Loosely held together | 21 |
| Layer through which a hatchling has broken | 42 |
| Laboratory tube used to convey or measure liquids | 49 |
| Lacking in aims | 15 |
| Lift up some quite practical floor covering | 43 |
| Limit with respect to stern | 27 |
| Language family including French and Spanish | 44 |
| Lazy ......, revolving tray on a table | 38 |
| large plant in the middle sometimes covered by negligible illumination | 70 |
| lion originally voiced by moira kelly | 37 |
| Legal record deleted it in error | 32 |
| Leave a strip touching | 22 |
| Loving to make call after a party | 33 |
| Liqueur new teacher initially refused us | 40 |
| lonnie ----, glasgow-born king of skiffle | 41 |
| location of merry men of mey tidal race | 39 |
| language spoken in andorra, balearics etc | 41 |
| location of ailsa golf course | 29 |
| less common name for biggest of violin family | 45 |
| london theatre and street | 25 |
| Legume on left in ring | 22 |
| Lee Ryan's band | 15 |
| Long-bodied vehicle | 19 |
| live east of e.g. durham, around power plant | 44 |
| leo, say, with drink for volunteers | 35 |
| like a single person, say | 25 |
| London players are captivating south: north also? Not so! | 57 |
| Lacking confidence, I'd end tiff somehow | 40 |
| Linguistic flaw in news by newspaper head | 41 |
| Lamp is put up over entrance | 28 |
| Language of south Asia | 22 |
| Lacerated; annoyed | 18 |
| liquid in a pickle jar | 22 |
| lean bird goes around lake | 26 |
| last pro ran amok, as some air routes go | 40 |
| like a misworn sweater? | 23 |
| late night with .... ...., supernatural horror movie starring david dastmalchian | 80 |
| length of wings or a life | 25 |
| Logs for burning | 16 |
| Low-pitched band instrument | 27 |
| Lead an operation | 17 |
| Loop with slipknot | 18 |
| Lustrous satin fabric | 21 |
| Laze on sofa | 12 |
| Lacked feeling | 14 |
| Loose-fitting hood | 18 |
| Legal ruling | 12 |
| Large ice sheet | 15 |
| Laughing expression | 19 |
| Leap nimbly | 11 |
| Level the soil | 14 |
| Long slender weasel | 19 |
| Looked over shoulder | 20 |
| Like tiger - or NCO perhaps! | 28 |
| Live with former partner in stoic arrangement | 45 |
| look forward to answer, interrupting a humorist | 47 |
| like nearly all prime numbers | 29 |
| likely to make blunders | 23 |
| lively | 6 |
| like a lot of bar food | 22 |
| lucky for fish the hook’s first removed | 41 |
| little swimmer’s time on pedalo wound up | 42 |
| little dog, favourite poodle | 28 |
| lover with nothing on – one fools around | 42 |
| late split trapping chancellor of the exchequer | 47 |
| little bit of butter european spread | 36 |
| like an old mattress | 20 |
| like an inveterate procrastinator, often | 40 |
| losing words | 12 |
| lepidopterist's tools | 21 |
| like many minions | 17 |
| like attractive people and stolen items | 39 |
| leonardo ...... (fibonacci alias) | 33 |
| lawsuit following rude, vacuous response | 40 |
| looks back on religious education with people in a club | 55 |
| locked in, so to speak | 22 |
| looses, as laces | 16 |
| like all airpods, but only some headphones | 42 |
| looks at first of elephants? affirmative | 40 |
| lament | 6 |
| livid | 5 |
| little piggy | 12 |
| lansbury of "murder, she wrote" | 31 |
| lost interest | 13 |
| limit, informally | 17 |
| lower-body exercises | 20 |
| longtime host of "jeopardy!" (1940–2020) | 42 |
| less-jolting joe | 16 |
| least likely to see egyptian god lie | 36 |
| leave inside tree with pm | 25 |
| last book guatemala children digested | 37 |
| look at fewer things at any cost | 32 |
| loudly kiss a herb, nothing but a minor fault | 45 |
| last objective on river | 23 |
| land to record tv programme | 27 |
| lacking cap with fine lining | 28 |
| lost us president? as if! | 25 |
| large bird seen in the american sky? | 36 |
| legal seizure of holy books after diarist is evicted | 52 |
| let it go or make hunchback score | 33 |
| lillie langtry on tv fracas in cannes resort | 44 |
| london district, not one of the canaries! | 41 |
| lover getting married again | 27 |
| like a horse without a tail, steer into biannual event | 54 |
| low church instance of loitering | 32 |
| laid up in the french city | 26 |
| laundress might sprinkle hot stuff | 34 |
| ladle etc, to pour out italian food | 35 |
| lock in geezer's trendy writing prowess | 39 |
| lover of a plunge in stream | 27 |
| listen to top dog | 17 |
| lost many a time when hit high | 30 |
| lord, there's no telling what's upset bandleader | 48 |
| legally controlled jump? | 24 |
| limit set of questions on flyleaf | 33 |
| light ale removed after anaesthetic | 35 |
| lead effort to place daughter brutally abandoned | 48 |
| little boy blue, the naval hero | 31 |
| leading vessel with number flipped | 34 |