Clues Starting With l Likely to shoot recklessly (7-5) Legal authorities excluding one sign (8) Liberals seem upset by society's work on injustice (3,10) Lie about with Eddy being abandoned (7) Lowers exchange rate rashly, leaves audit without independence (10) Land surrounded by water (6) Loud warning to sailors (7) Lounges (5) Live in retreat — most mean (7) Like the sea? (6) Look into Mafia to come back and thrive (5) Level in rugger, having lost every other one — win following defeat? (7) Lose fight admitting that was painful (3,3) Left date that’s too old (7) Little wrinkles, removing head in butchery jobs (8,5) Low-carb diet's sound in Ecuador's capital (5) Line connecting points of the same atmospheric pressure (6) Large ethnic group of eastern South Africa (4) Lend SMS a hidden meaning (7) Leader described by prominent journalist as 'conceited' (9) Look, I'm not sure about coming in as substitute (5) Luxury line includes zit treatment (5) Letter (from St Paul?) (7) Leo, for example (13) Line in what you're reading to classes (6) Lift prize cup of the highest quality (3-6) Listen to the end of our bust-up in anger (4,3) Liqueur distilled from cherries (6) Langdon's heart captured by desperate lament (5) Live next to a field (4) Loud and grating (8) Luxury hotel and golf resort in Perthshire — legal genes (anag) (10) Like some accounts with exaggerated depiction (9) Large quantity (informal) (10) Lost in thought in having escaped Titanic: going to break up (10) Lazy superstar, we're told (4) Line for throwing in East End ball game (4) Long-billed water bird (7) Leftie eating endless leeks smelt awful (6) Leave the outskirts of Seville with upper-class twit (3,3) Lowering of Parisian somewhere below ground (10) Likely (8) Long streamer displayed by group, role-playing (8) Leading fashion house creations (5,7) Lessens (6) Leopard (anag) — released conditionally (7) Lamb joint (6) Less wild path for conquering warrior (9) Like a pub where all the hard liquor's been drunk down (3,2,7) Little picture of poinsettias (5) Loyal staff running with baton in team-building exercise (7,8) Leave (6) Loud piercing cry (6) Lairs (4) Lament for one buried in cathedral (5) Ladies maybe excited by TS Eliot (7) Lamb Chop-Orville double act from this pair's island? (5,3,6) Longing for England, Browning now reviewed parade? (5,4) Liquid disinfectant (6) Locomotion (6) Legendary lover admitted dealing in drugs (6) Lesser deity (7) Like a rowing boat? (5) Like a shot that’s one foot off (5,4) Love playing game to the end (5) Laments about teachers not getting money — hypocrites! (7,6) Locate patient lost in market area (9,4) Love affair within a limit (9) Like the construction of a honeycomb? (8) Legal officials working overtime on sign (8) Low basin for washing the privates (5) Labour excluded from government training session (7) Light flickering from fine sparkly fabric (5) Light comedy with improbable boudoir antics (7,5) Libertine (4) Lager, bitter and stout (4) Long short time (4) Left most of Essex with liver upset — worse things can happen (6,4) Living with difficulties from dodgy repairs? (5,5) Live alongside former lover on island, splitting expenses (7) Low sound on beat failing to generate excitement (7) Link between two words (6) Less serious (7) Lust is sadly seen over Brighton & Hove? (8) Lovers stripped with poet to embrace love in the water (9) Long heroic poem (4) Lower oneself (5) Log on (4,2) Leave (informal) (4,3) London columnist (6) Lacking gravity, that's plain (12) Like unbaked bread (6) Large jug (7) Like the peacemakers, biblically (7) Lotion applied to the skin to make it less oily (10) Lead (8) Like some humour the writer's penned, surprisingly strong? (4) Labour leader making a change, mostly wrong about everything (9) Logical (8) Language, dialect (inf.) (5) Lowest point (5) Leisure (4,3) Lad clutching top of designer group (4) Label meat cooked for partners in the ring (3,4) Learn when determined (9) Line in solid design of aeronautical engineering triumph (8) Luxuriate (4) Loosely-coiled amount of yarn (5) Large organ of the abdomen (5) Logically decide what could produce a snore (6,3) Leaping as non-U greeting (9) Lowly soldiers embarrassed about rank (5) Lewis initially accepts blame for shooting game (5) Land where people break into song (7) Legal decision (7) Large white roundish Asiatic legume – usually dried (8) Look again for academic work (8) Like shoulders of beef or lamb, they can be smoked (6) Location of a debutante's first gown (7) Look cross (5) Like a fry-up? (6) Lawman, it's said, puts down government supporters (9) Lilting Irish accent (6) Laud vet following surgery after duck produced eggs (8) Leader of Conservatives in bumbling oaf is humiliating disaster (6) Lacking colour (4) Like to stay in bed and take it easy (5) Line to put into program for computer (6) Lifeless (9) Liner after refit carrying old oil (6) Lacking professional expertise (7) Live within one's means, as a contortionist could (4,4,4) Long slender sword (6) Lump fish circling loch (4) Ludicrous cost in writing material available for sale (2,5) Lose one's cool in 2 (4) Look into first of rooms: see drunken principal (8) Lavish (10) Lack of agreement or harmony; bitter discord (6) Listen to (something) (arch) (7) Letters sent to public figures from admirers (3,4) Lacking refinement, cultivation or taste (7) Largely woolly letter from abroad? (6) Level in cup match, right? (4) Long process gently nursing husband (7) Look for brochure American left (8) Lovely tune, ultimately inspiring start of hymn — listen! (4,4) Lack of consensus (12) Liveried servant (7) Laid down (9) Longing (6) Ludicrous (informal) (6) Leader pushed to back of room gets through (5) Lines on baby's foot (8) Largest anthropoid ape (7) Last of the three names of an ancient Roman indicating his house or family (8) Liverpool Lime Street, for example (7) Live or die, that's come out nicely (5) Late decree — ordered to slow down (10) Legendary ship making a river journey (4) Lawbreakers (9) Look lively! (4,2,2) Like the morning sun? (6) Let China clay initially be moulded by expert (9) Long-standing resentment (7) Liberal entering has been received topless — he'd get an eyeful! (5) Landing strip (6) Last letter from Athens? (5) Look for line expunged in glossy (4) Lack expression to be obvious (2,7,6) Legendary Viking king with links to Ivarr the Boneless (variant spelling) (5) Large sailing ship trading for the East India Company before 1858 (8) Lets out, or lets out again (8) Little Bo-Peep is cursory, for one? (7,5) Liqueur seen to spoil a small cloth (10) Little spikes: personally, I have 20 (5) Large spotted feline (6) Lots of blades involved in making this cloth (4) Little (5) Largely failing to save edition of holy books (5) Loud horn (6) Like the living dead with axes? There's nothing silly about that (10) Lacking delicacy, time to be more passive? (8) Light grey coloured (4) Little green man (5) Lecturer has staple treatment applied for the inexperienced (1-6) Large quiet pile with desirable parking (5) Leave me alone, teacher foolishly bids tutor (2,3,7) Limit on height of church is to stimulate new ideas (9) Like hens, eat a quantity of grain (4) Large musical composition (4) Luscious oranges and melons primarily growing in this? (4) Large rock formerly down under 26 (6) Look angry (4) Liable to change (6) Leap (4) Lose voter? Terrible for president (9) Looking embarrassed by love? Have another go (4) Let loose by heads of unusually nice prison in Norway (5) Leaving contentious point on painful condition (6,3) Like the ideal knight? (7) Little known runner? (4,5) Lovely island castle (6) Large seaweed with long, tough stalks (4) Live (5) Leave time to get star into successful promo (3,3,4) Lacking courtesy (3-8) Like the king of the jungle (7) Like couple in song, endlessly? Strong point (5) Last parts of national anthem in various keys, without winds (8) Line I cry out as part of song (5) Loud string player shielding a wind player (8) Large gathering (5) Loosen (5) Layperson (7) Language natural to native speakers (8) Listeners (4) Lewis Carroll or George Eliot, say (9) Ladies possibly wanting occupation, I admitted (6) Like a mansion said to be damp and unhealthy (6) Leader of bloggers is to curse, put out when one's included little-known words? (11) Lady setter in trim condition picked up (6) Latin American cousin of the raccoon (5) Literally, 'dwarf dog', from the Welsh (5) Learn dances to an organ (5) Lack of experience of top-class doctor in New York (7) Live as Liberal in college, always a sceptic (10) Longs for order during main revolution (5) Look over moves to suppress mad cow disease (7) Long shot from footballer going over close to netting (9) Low-fat dairy product (7,6) Lockers (4) Little girl's make-up case guards PIN, enigmatically (5,3,5) Lacking (6) Lower house of the Irish parliament (4,7) Large farm outbuilding (4) Large cushion filled with foam or granules for sitting on (7) Lindisfarne or Castle Acre? (6) Left-wing dictator and dictator's bird tailed (6) Last letter from America? (3) Letter from internet company returned (3) Legitimate (5) Long-distance lorry driver (7) Large amount on a pension, perhaps, worked hard (8) Leg bone (6) Love, I talk a lot about big beasts (7) Lack of assertiveness (8) Long-limbed South American primate (6,6) Latest time for finishing something (8) Low-lying, often reclaimed lands (6) London insurance market (6) List of those eligible to vote (9,4) Looped cross, ancient Egyptian symbol of life (4) Look happy (5) Leave out (4) Leading lady curtailed test in protest (9) Lieutenant initially laid into lusty corporal (7) London area's one mistake? Chasing game (7) Low land that floods (5) Liable to become intoxicated about leading edge in computers, like Macs (8) Language always supporting smart designer of software, say (8) Lord (4) Land's ground seemed to contain nitrogen (7) Leave unobtrusively (5,3) Loan shark (6) Linens for the dining table (6) Large crow (5) Live with students and young fellow hack in terrible dive (5-4) Lounge with book in front of fire (5) Look! Queues in America for Virgin and EasyJet (8) Louisiana city (3,7) Liquid applied to the skin (6) London football club, founded 1881 (6,6) Large and unwieldy (5) Letter from abroad for volunteer soldiers until recently (5) Lure (6) Line of people waiting (5) Latin graduate admitted to dodgy translation of prayer (4,4) Little bit of poetry mother's penning (7) Leading setter's charges immediately reduced (9) Looking to keep home that houses nothing innovative (10) Liked by many (7) Largest city of the Loire valley (6) Large water jug with a wide mouth (4) Lupins hid me (anag) — garden plants (11) Look after small personal problem for careless shepherd (6,2,4) Loud males in heat somehow made them suicidal (6,3,6) Like arty composition getting lost (6) Lent a hand (6,3) Last of air removed from high cloud and carbon injected as entertainment (6) Leave wrapping right round bird (6) Latin-American dance (5) Large book (5) Languid and ineffectual (13) Look lively! (5,1,3) Lawlessness (7) Line nailed by author, only just (6) Lingo, tad barking? (3,5) Loose rocks over elevated cave shown (8) Leafy recess (5) Large waves swamping tips of pontoon anchor (7) Line about number turning up close to fantastic US city (7) Leather strip (5) Long piece of (tedious) writing (6) Layer (7) Large out-of-control fire (7) Light touch or push (5) Long green edible vegetable seed pods (4) Legit (5) Largest continent (4) Leave freezing block entire? That would make no difference (3,2,3) Like hard wood (3) Limit set by a developed place for what a ground can hold (8) Lean Italian nurses a woman (5) Last character elected with Conservative element (4) Like pie, or a piece of cake (4) Leading female character (7) Large flatfish (7) Look after European that Parisian conservation group finds persuasive (8) Locks securing books and eyewash (3,3) Look to see that letters are correct (10) Limpet and rocks firmly fixed (9) Let cash fall out of bag (7) Left TV programme, missing the forecast of good weather (3,3,2,5) Lhasa's region/country (5) Large structure for open-air events (5) Like a siren copper turned up, entering drug cutting area (9) Labour (4) Lash (4) Loan shark practice (5) Live on edge nearby (6) Line connecting points on a weather chart (6) Lax (5) Leaves container (6) Long thin pipe (6) Legendary Greek hunter, who after his death was placed among the stars (5) Largest of the National Theatre's three stages (7) Long (4) Love great ending to series (5) Language using few words needs no introduction (4) Leave out (4) Lip, brink (4) Large crow (5) Language of poetry beginning to wither away (4) Light-coloured (5) Like-minded party people eating battered fish (7) Little sound that echoes just the same? (4) Land soldier who's dropped, not straight, clutching uniform (8) Look old on mother's ruin (6) Like ditchwater? (4) Latest war over the sea (4,5) Long angry speech (6) Lively (4-8) Lover of fine food (7) Lament for the dead (5) Listen in with royal receiving a fake shock (6) Losers (4-4) Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation (5) Long narrow passage (5) Likelihood (11) Leg bone (5) Lineage (8) Large blade with phoney coating's a cracker (12) Loud insistent call oddly tender (9) Like canine amputee in yard? (5,4) Lately discovered radio operator in London borough (6) Live from day to day with hardship (3,3) Length of wait spelled out in detail, maybe to extremes (4,4) Legal ownership (5) Like a zombie? (7) Language as spoken in a particular place (7) Little old star, no posh god (6) Let up (6) Laid back, office siesta criticised (6) Lineage (8) Low-water mark (5) Lair (3) Lucky (informal) (5) London area south of Hyde Park (13) Lecturer caught finally in forbidden instruction (4) Lie about soldier being promoted for a major job (3,3) Lord installs square safe (5) Long to decorate? Not I! (4) Learner (7) Looked good impaled (7) Logical basis for a course of action (9) Long right jabs this close to heavyweight (6) Large flatfish prized as food (6) Location of the Great Salt Lake (4) Liquid refreshment (8) Locks (4) Leaders of gardeners' and zoologists' unions meet privately to seek a higher offer (6) Little time for tea or coffee (5) Lingered (7) Live bear (5) Last killer leaving America dry (4) Long narrative poem (4) Large arboreal lizard (6) Leaves less polluting van in York (8) Left-hander (8) Large inlet of the North Atlantic between Virginia and Maryland (10,3) Little-known degree held by Guardian's head of entertainment (7) Left in pieces after contestant finally made a mistake (7,2) Large leaf taken from soil often flipped over (5) Legal (6) Lacking profundity (7) Like gran's rough play (4,4) Long piece of (tedious) writing (6) Layer (7) Large out-of-control fire (7) Light touch or push (5) Long film got abridged for release (3,2) Leading thinker's work on female brilliance is outstanding (3-6) Letter (often dropped in speech) (5) Little fish thoroughly sautéed — it's first for gut-busting cuisine (3-3) Line in Catch-22 (6) Love trendy coats Oscar's wearing (7) Low-lying Caribbean islands (4) Like some puzzles in mathematics (8) Like some big game one bungled in series (7) License first person at work showing enthusiastic interest (7) Lout in a mob rampaging is individually exposed (3,2,1,4) Light, playful musical composition (7) Let fly, as good dressmakers should? (4,1,3) Leader of a group of Brownies or Cub Scouts (5) Lip (4) Larceny (5) Licked sweet (8) Legal obligation (to be one of twelve) (4,4) Labour, chore (4) Left murder victim's identification tag (5) Leaving nursing home, sign on form for discharge (5) Latest version making me old? (3,5) Lethargy shown by overweight Miguel taking clothes off (7) Lament getting temperamental around November (6) Low dull noise (coming from the stomach?) (6) Like top kisser? Charlie excited on one date, finally has fiddle (6,3) Legendary figure to go brown: Greek character around lake getting sun (8) Lesion (anag) — it's found underfoot (6) Lost nursing home initially remains here? (7) Laborious effort (7) Low dam across a river to raise its level upstream (4) Line on a map connecting points of equal elevation (7) Letter that's regularly dropped! (5) Lonely, fail to go back into romantic meeting (8) Little light fish (3) Letters from interesting people (10) Late entertainer, greatest in the cemetery? (3,8) Little child is involved in a deception — gets punishment (10) Low evergreen heath plant (5) Local resort repaired Queen's Ride (6,7) Latin American dance with a rumba rhythm (5) Lame man's first goal (4) Lower number attached to name (6) Lacking consistency (6) Let loose (5) Less tasty (7) Laterally (8) Lost control (when under pressure) (7) Large quantity (4) Lungs of sheep, bullocks and pigs used in pet food (6) Large vessel that people drink from in turn at a feast (6,3) Like that hotel round Westminster area (4) Least strong (7) Leaving out (9) Low budget film made mainly for showing on TV (1-5) Large long-horned African antelope (4) Ladies and gentlemen relaxed briefly (4) Low and trimmed-down portable night vision aid (9) Leave out gender-specific term (4) Lot of winter sports equipment (source not revealed) encountered (6) Large gathering of people with something in common (4) Like a lamb? (4) Like washing still wet, not mangled by a doctor of sorts (6) Latitude with lavish downpours, do we hear? (4,4) Liquid wood preservative (8) Legal name-changer (4,4) Lively energy (informal) (4) Large sofa with padded arms and back (12) Little doggies carrying master's shoes (5) Left-leaning (informal) (5) Locate and correct computer program code errors (5) Loose coins ruin her plans (8) Leaves from Asia — temperature in that part of world has shifted (4) Like a bird (5) Live (6) Left over quail prepared by colonel without formality (10) Lay eyes on (6) Looked glad (6) Last letter home has finally tragic element (4) Line dance? (5) Love to break quickly into a modern industry (9) Lily heading off from old rotten borough (4) Lyric outside lifted little room (6) Legal expenses (paid by the loser!) (5) Leave Egypt's borders around eleven (4) Lazy drooping posture (6) Large cooking pot used by soldiers (or campers) (5) List what fibbers do endlessly, one such as Boris (9) LSD, say (12) Lose impetus (3,3,2,5) Live together (7) Location, we're told, upset Welshman, a tourist (9) Lacking accuracy (9) Large scissors with strong blades (6) Literary world to stroke good person in welcome (4,6) Look at (3) Liable (3) Look associated with cunning jumbo? (8) Label attached to a southern county: 'It's saucy!' (7) Local agent's ultimate green housing (6) Leave by a slip road (4) Let's Do It songwriter (4,6) Leisurely walk (6) Laxative (5) Let's shake hands! (3,2,5) Less expensive (7) Large dark enclosed space (6) Legal profession upsetting Bertha (3,3) Lord that is holy person, coming before all others (8) London arcade in which Heather is embraced by actor Richard? (10) Like part of Africa, loves idiosyncrasy (7) Letter and next two found between opposing letters in manuscript (5) Like unedited report and leader in Guardian, agreeing (9) Lazy (4) Legendary sailor's succinct religious view? (6) Lager top and fizzy cola served here? (5) Lent hat to cricketer (4,6) Lusty husband later becoming gross (6) Lord Chancellor's means of authenticating state documents (5,4) Legal document (4) Least in sins (anag) (11) Like an expensive car? That's a relief (5) Literal result of picking the wrong key (4) Looked angry as flag finally taken down (8) Little child has item to play with (4) List includes Independent Party (7) Losing hair, Uriah Heep's playing southern city of old (7) Large prawns (6) Laura ___ , Welsh fashion and textile designer, d.1985 (6) Loudspeaker — dog? (6) Lover of alcohol (5) Lets boxing man off in scraps (8) Lacking home cover for certain (4) Lug around (4) Light grey-brown colour (4) Lion-like (7) Lamb's mum (3) Log into a Tory's daft predictions (9) Lie in bed tossing? It's most unpalatable (8) Less substantial artist with true representation of books etc (10) Letters sent going after job (4) Largest of the Inner Hebrides (4) Lad tending horses - yeast blob (anag) (6,3) Lover (4) Laminate used for worktops — police workers supply it (6,4) Look at half a dozen we sent over (4) Lives protected by others in combat (6) Line used in good books showing taste (7) Loud breather chucked away (5) Like streakers, dodging about to avoid capture at last (8) Large African mammal (5) Lamp's laboriously cleaned out with a soft touch (7) Laughed at reading 1 down — setter had put in funny clue (9) Large black dots in eyes (6) Launder (4) Large book (6) Like life? (12) Lingo of a particular group (5) Last game in a competion (5) Limits of expansion in dull material (5) Lawyers next to God, here in Scotland! (5) Ludicrous (8) Little lake for little children — an old gold pip (anag) (8,4) Lifelong shoemaker, so devoted? (2,3,4) Lasting a long time (7) Let in (5) Leaders of banks accept some economic restrictions, as this effectively is a way to control inflation (4,4) Level up, housing sick boy (7) Latin American country that ceased to be part of the Spanish Empire in 1821 (6) Levis (4,5) Liquefied by great heat (6) Look, fellows, current's coming in! (4) Leaving? Rousing cheer initially let out (7) Light glancing touch (4) Left over (4) Lecherous (7) Liverpool player reportedly was crossing river for epic struggles (4,4) Like court, or something happening there (6) Like you or me, fudged hard option (10) Like a family with no right to be joyful (6) Liberal or Republican in charge (4) Like Hamlet or Othello? (6) Lioness written about by Joy Adamson in Born Free (4) Large amphibious reptile (abbr) (5) Love lost in damp fog (4) Loot German journalist showed off (9) Lost again, wandering in state of wistfulness (9) Limber (6) Light-sensitive area at the back of the eyeball (6) Leave behind urn? (6) Law broken by government after a day to decide (7) Last time in, for example (4) Letters translated on unusual map provide illumination (6,4) Ladder with its step shortened (3) Large fruit bat (6,3) Lantern's opening by ten gets wet (4) Look Conservative leader up and find unpleasant smarmy person (5) Label (8) Less cooked, flipped over rump prodded by skewer, finally (5) Love affairs, generally secret (6) Light horse-drawn carriage with four wheels — a homburg (anag) (8) Lacking stiffness (4) Length, extent (4) Limbs (4) Last bit (4) Lean — over (5) Love movie nobody catches involving pair exclusively (3-2-3) Loutish individual (7) Limit leading posters for despicable sorts (5) Like something one might get from a letter? (8) Leader avoiding fresh hazard (4) Landed on island, in custody of Catholic queen's army (8) Lab test (anag) — medication (7) Literary anticlimax (6) Lengthen pamphlet after person making regular cuts (8) Lots missing a penalty, sadly (6)
