| HALFLENGTH | Portrait of Len? (4-6) |
| PANCAKEDAY | Another name for Shrove Tuesday, the last opportunity for a treat before the Christian period of Len |
| SHORTTERMMEMORY | Reminiscence of Len or Michael, perhaps, creating no lasting impression? |
| ENABLE | Make possible a reconciliation of Len and Abe |
| ENROLMENT | Registration of Len Merton, maybe (9) |
| GAME | First novel of Len Deighton's spy trilogy, Berlin ... |
| DEIGHTON | Len ?, author of the novels The IPCRESS File and Horse Under Water (8) |
| OPULENT | Opt to get around you, Len? That's rich! (7) |
| INTHELASTRESORT | Loony Len? He starts riot if all else fails! |
| ADO | Lead on Len? He left in the commotion (3) |
| NODULE | Do you see Len? That's swell! |
| HELEN | Len? He turned out to be a woman (5) |
| OFFTHEWALL | A portrait of Trump to be hung like this in the White House? Absurd any way! (3,3,4) |
| PENNYBLACK | Miniature portrait of Victoria, 12 for a 17? |
| JANVERMEER | The Procuress is thought to be a self-portrait of this Dutch artist |
| SUTHERLAND | Graham, artist born in 1903 noted for his controversial portrait of Winston Churchill (10) |
| ONTHEMONEY | Exactly where you might see a portrait of Jane Austen in the UK? |
| JAMES | Depicted in a portrait by John Singer Sargent, a novelist awarded the Order of Merit in 1916 who wrote The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove (5) |
| ISABELARCHER | Eponymous heroine of the 1881 Henry James novel The Portrait of a Lady (6,6) |
| LOTTO | Venetian artist of the Italian Renaissance whose paintings include Portrait of a Man with a Lizard and Portrait of a Woman Inspired by Lucretia (5) |