| LOVES | ___ Labours Lost, Shakespeare play (5) |
| BEVIN | Ernest _; Labour trade unionist and General Strike organiser (5) |
| MILNE | Seumas ___, Labour Party director of communications (5) |
| LAMMY | David ___, Labour MP appointed foreign secretary in July 2024 (5) |
| BEVAN | Aneurin ___, Labour statesman who introduced the NHS (5) |
| BIRON | Pen name of character in Love's Labour's Lost (5) |
| LIGHT | 'for a ___ heart lives long' (Love's Labour's Lost) (5) |
| DEWAR | Donald ___, Labour MP who was first minister of Scotland from 1999-2000 (5) |
| ADDED | "Ba, pueritia, with a horn ____" (Love's Labour's Lost) |
| LABOURS | Love's ... Lost (Shakespeare) (6'1) |
| HOLOFERNES | Schoolmaster in William Shakespeare play Love's Labour's Lost |
| COSTARD | Clown in William Shakespeare play Love's Labour's Lost |
| MOTH | Page to Don Adriano de Armado in the Shakespeare play Love's Labour's Lost (4) |
| JAQUENETTA | A country wench in Shakespeare's play Love's Labour's Lost |
| DONADRIANODEARMADO | Fantastical Spaniard in William Shakespeare play Love's Labour's Lost |
| DULL | Constable in the William Shakespeare play Love's Labour's Lost |
| 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) |
| NAVARRE | Ferdinand's kingdom in Shakespeare's comedy Love's Labour's Lost (7) |
| UNSULLIED | "Now by my maiden honour, yet as pure / As the ____ lily, I protest" (Love's Labours Lost) |
