Letter L
Lee limes (anag) – another name for the hagfish
Like some beans and operating-theatre dishes
Large shirtless sportsman
Like some mortgages of the early 2000s
Landlocked country with two capitals
Like a couple on a moonlit stroll?
Like some fuels
Legendary warrior of great height
Like a lavishly ceilinged Chapel
Like some wire and comments
Like 007’s cocktail
Lowest (of tides)
Levy for car user
Linen and seed oil plant
Lancashire food
Landmass containing France and Vietnam
Limber, lithe and lively
Location beside which I do like to be
Lammas month
Lucky thing
Light yellow – rural woods etc (anag)
Likely to take action?
Lethargic quality
Like some of Brian Eno’s 17?
Last words in the name of a Renaissance artist
Last person to get it?
Later – UN bequests (anag)
Large (sum of money)
Lifeless – like some ducks?
Littoral edifices averting maritime mishaps
Lettuce type named for a geological feature
Look (backward and forward)
Less dense – firestarter
Lithe leapers
Like most envelopes
Large level tract of elevated land
Laugh or yell shrilly
Laugh or yell boisterously
Lou – pondside grass
Lawyer – dossier – surly
Like a parrot
Long-haired sporting pooch
Lesser in stature
Location by the byway?
Light, silly laugh
Local test of knowledge
Lawyer specialising in courtroom advocacy in England & Wales
Low-budget film; supporting feature
Large cash prize, often accumulated
Lace mist (anag) – flowering climbing plant
Like identical houses connected in a row
Literary term for bleak and miserable
Listening carefully
Laughing African carnivore
Lace, horn or maker
Lion or pussycat, say
Luvvie
Liverpool or Everton, say
Lord’s or Oval position
Line on map containing points of equal pressure
Local variety of language
Light cover
Loo in Louisiana?
Lennon or Assange?
Let (something happen)
Language of certain groups
Last stages of a contest
Like competitors in a close race
Like a passenger pigeon?
Lovey-dovey – unrealistic
Linney or Ingalls Wilder?
Left in France
Light or nectar?
Loose nightdress
Loyal assistant, as seen in a 1719 novel
Living barrier – noncommittal statement
Lady’s bedchamber
Leaving no room for ambiguity
Level quayside area
Leonard or Sacha Baron?
Legal system or theory
Lofty – improbable (of a story)
Lugubrious Hundred Acre Wood inhabitant
Like Doubting Thomas – castle pic (anag.)
Like the feet of someone feeling restless?
Lightener of hair
Longest Republic of Ireland river
Luxury train service
Low frequency speaker
Loire grape
Left rib (anag) – hazelnut
Load – contribution
Locks tidier
Locks washer
Licked confection
Line met by a tangent
Lidos (anag)
Level pegging
Less stimulating (coffee)
Lovely (anag)
Living boundary
Love, wild or poster?
London medical district
Lacking French
Let’s pretend
La Marseillaise, perhaps
Like a sour-tasting wine?
Light tapping
Location of Clacton-on-Sea
Leading expert
Lug secretion
Line created by rising and falling water
Long length of material fashioned as headdress
Let that ___ in
Like paper without lines
Lost – in the Black, perhaps!
Let’s pie (anag.) – quaint term for correspondence
Le chef (anag.) – spire – old arrow
Looted (anag.) – Spanish sword-making city, or one of its swords
Looking good on the box
Last Nato alphabet letter
Leaf-based lunch?
Loses it – photographs
Low horizontal cloud
Like easier-to-eat grapes
Lose one’s footing
Last morpheme, grammatically?
Little growth
Landform at river mouth
Liquid protecting lover of rays
Leap from plane
Lasagne or linguine?
Length of a parliament
Living place
Lost in ritual (anag) – display
Licence or justice?
Local way of talking
Let’s hear more!
Let go of (something)
Like a humbug?
Large sailing ship used for trade and warfare
Lou or Elvis?
Lancers left (anag) – disappointed
Leg adornment
Lengthy yarn
Like certain angles or accents
Last bit of wine
Like a violent hooligan
Limps to train (anag) – bouncer (?)
Like the Lion of Saint Mark
Lacking flavour – or force
Like the M25?
Language, source of ‘khaki’ and ‘purdah’
Like e.g. missiles which can’t travel far
Latin dictum equating drinking with honesty
Lucifer, after descent?
Loud garment – from a British overseas territory?
Lumberjack shirt material
Light dullish brown – shy
Lager/lemonade tipple
Late rest early in the day
Lamb or mutton dish
Lord’s vassal
Loaded – having the desired effect
Leap – captain
Lesser player
Line-up of gangsters?
Liquid remaining after cheese-making process
Lumbricus wriggler
Lignified – Toy Story hero
Later years
Lug discomfort
Leave, e.g. in a will
Like Hardy’s Jude Fawley
Leaves one’s vehicle in an obstructive manner
Like an illness caused by e.g. stress
List of contents
Like Voltaire’s Candide
Location of Lucknow and Bhopal
Lehár operetta from 1905
Ludicrous descent from the elevated to the banal
Lip or drawer?
Leather with a roughened surface
Love or hate, for instance
Liberty or The Little Mermaid?
Like cold tea or coffee?
List of technical terms used in a document
Lose one’s job
Legal ownership
Lavishly praise or boast about (something)
Loper (anag.)
Lively (like a Heinz tin?)
Location of the Alamo
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