| LOVES | _ Labours Lost, Shakespeare play (6) |
| ASHTON | Joe ___, Labour MP for Bassetlaw from 1968-2001 (6) |
| CRIPPS | Sir Richard Stafford ___, Labour Chancellor, 1947-1950 (6) |
| ELLMAN | Dame Louise ___, Labour MP for Liverpool Riverside until 2019 (6) |
| HEALEY | Denis _; Labour politician and former Chancellor of the Exchequer (6) |
| CASTLE | Barbara ___, Labour politician and minister in the Wilson governments (6) |
| DOBSON | Frank _, Labour Secretary of State for Health 1997-99 (6) |
| REEVES | Rachel ___, Labour chancellor of the exchequer from July 2024 (6) |
| ASHLEY | Jack ___, Labour politician and disability campaigner, born in 1922 (6) |
| ARMADO | A king starting "Much Ado" with the Spaniard in "Love's Labour's Lost" (6) |
| SCRAPS | 'They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the ___' (Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost (1595) |
| ANGELL | Norman ___, Labour MP noted for his work on the economic futility of war, The Great Illusion, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933 (6) |
| IRVINE | Lord ___, Labour politician criticised for the cost of his 10 4 (6) |
| JOWELL | Tessa ___, Labour politician who was Olympics minister from 2005 to 2010 (6) |
| ALICIA | Silverstone of "Love's Labour's Lost" |
| BLEARS | Hazel ____, Labour Party chair before Harriet Harman |
| LABOURS | Love's ... Lost (Shakespeare) (6'1) |
| DONADRIANO | & 13D Fantastical Spaniard in William Shakespeare play Love's Labour's Lost (3,7,2,6) |
| DEARMADO | Fantastical Spaniard in William Shakespeare play Love's Labour's Lost (3,7,2,6) |
| HOLOFERNES | Schoolmaster in William Shakespeare play Love's Labour's Lost |
