| PELLET | Lee met the PM at tea but it was a sort of cover-up (6) |
| PELMET | Lee met the PM at tea but it was a sort of cover-up (6) |
| PSALMS | Songs performed by Sarah in the afternoon at the end of Christmas (6) |
| ENAMEL | Lee met a man in the paint industry (6) |
| PERCEVAL | Clever PA involved with the PM at one time (8) |
| TAR | There was a sort of ART to being a sailor in days gone by (3) |
| LOIN | 'Ajit' Hamid Ali Khan, as the whole town reportedly knew him, was a sort of lion (4) |
| DOWNINGSTREET | Where one finds letters of the afternoon at Ten (7,6) |
| SELECTCOMMITTEE | Comic, Lee, met test reorganizing this parliamentary body (6,9) |
| PALIMPSEST | Chum with misstep involved in a sort of cover-up |
| OAKFOREST | Like Birnam Wood, developed a sort of cover for king and head of entourage (3,6) |
| CARPORT | A sort of cover where foreign vehicles enter ... (7) |
| SPRAIN | Paris turned north, but it was a wrench (6) |
| HUBCAP | Revolutionary sort of cover provided for the motorist |
| FORGED | Careless godfather lost hat but it was a fake anyway |
| ATTAIN | By effort secure a dry afternoon at home (6) |
| ATTLEE | Prime minister at wit's end - flipping slippery character! |
| FIGLEAF | A fruity sort of cover-up (3,4) |
| DHOBI | Middling sort of cover-up found on the subcontinent (5) |
| CRUELSUMMER | Peter Ueberroth won Time Magazine's Person of the Year in 1984 for organizing the L.A. Olympics, but it was a ___ for Soviet Bloc athletes, whose countries boycotted the Games |
