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(5) Leaves to eat, wrong, to drink (3) Legendary Rolling Stone Lights, ..., action! Liquid unit, fluid ... Lose some bounce and gain weight (5) Listening to one who is joining the army? Larry's agent on "Curb Your Enthusiasm," whose father was played by veteran actor Louis Nye Last letters of many chemical elements London clock Leaders in Sheffield nabbing O'Mara with cocaine (4) Lunch container (6,3) Legacy document, last ... and testament Less risky, the ...option Listing at back of book ___ Lane, Superman's love "Laugh-In" comic ___ Johnson Longing for a siesta "Let Me Love You" singer Ora Leave it ___ (unchanged): 2 wds. Large concert venue Lily pad locale Like a snail Loose ___, Radio 4 programme (4) Large birdcage Leader of a meeting … or that leader's seat Language of Pakistan "___-la-la!" 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(5) Law enforcers slim down policy (4,4,4) Leading man and woman occupied by a sudden disruption (8) Left-wing political movement (6) Length of previous pavilion (6) Letters from strapping lads to New Statesman Light-brown horse and a wild plant Like a 26 Down (8) Like autonomous cars Like one on the wagon missing drinking can (9) Like some iron, approximate in weight (7) Line joining opposite corners Look at graduate returning with pair of hoops for childish game Look left on plane for its destination Lord and Lady, e.g. (6) Lord or Lady, briefly (6) Love to be a woman (5) Lyric poet's inspiration (5) Lands' End competitor (2 wds.) Large colorful handkerchiefs "Last week on . . ." portion of a show Leaves and makes excuses initially unconvincing Length of the musical "Come From Away" "Let's Make a ___" -- 1960s US game show with Monty Hall (4) Like a cat's fur Like a jeweler's case filled with diamonds (with "A") Like some cheap at-home repairs (Abbr.) Log-in entries Lookout spot on a ship __ lace; French export Lodges Lie next to __ like; imitates "_ Line? (TV game show of guessing occupations) (5,2) "__ Little Thing" (Beatles) Like some iron, approximate in weight Love to be a woman Landing site Law enforcers slim down policy Length of previous pavilion Largest of the Solomon Islands in the S.W. Pacific (11) Lead out English charttopper (5) Lucky animal La __: Real Madrid's division Lake called the world's highest navigable, in the Andes on the border between Bolivia and Peru (8) Large spiral-horned African antelope related to the bushbucks and kudus; Taurotragus oryx (5) Largest city of Inner Mongolia by urban population, located on the north bank of the Yellow River, west of the region's capital Hohhot (6) Labourer against entering service (5) Leaf on a palm tree Like despots and supervillains Links club Let go of Last line of defense in soccer Landing guess: Abbr. 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Laid mores out and preached Largest city in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (6) Leaf gets woman home Learned river ran back with tide at sea Left one medium object as restriction Like a wild horse, without provisos Likely to succeed when playing the correct song? Lily -, actress born Elsie Hodder who created the title role in 1907 English language version of Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow Lisa managed to go by boat Liz -, national poet of Scotland from 2011-16 (8) Long post about a stockpile Long weekend happening to be a competition Lord, 51, surrounded by spouse's undomesticated animals Lore confused by job Lost driver's maneuver, at times Loudly proclaims Leg for one that’s crawling, or for all ages? Legal expert has an interrogation shortened under uneducated Australian bloke Life forces pizza topping from one’s mouth? 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Lyrical author followed by jerk Land measure Large city in South Korea (pop about 2.5 million), known as the "Textile" City" (5) Laps, making a right funny sound (6) Lebron James, notably, for short Leavesfur everywhere Leicestershire opener who made 179 against Glamorgan in 2023 (5,5) Let out about the damaged easel (7) Like a green air freshener's smell, perhaps Like a moth to the _____ Liver or lung part Loading a gun again is wonderful (5) Lyft rival Light supper Like cold cuts Lawn spoilers Large monitor lizard of the East Indies (6,6)