| SHADIEST | getting the least sun |
| ATHLETES | They make the most effort on the track and the least (8) |
| LAW | The statement 'Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong' is succinctly referred to as Murphy's ... - the corollary states it will do so at the least convenient time |
| ARMAGH | The least-populated city in Northern Ireland and the fifth smallest in the UK (6) |
| TALES | The least of the stories told (5) |
| EASIEST | The last seat is somehow the least hard |
| MEANEST | The writer is supported by a home of the least ostentation |
| NEAP | Tide with the least difference between the high and low |
| MINIMUM | I'm getting in first, mother is going out the least |
| LOWTIDE | Time when the least water is present on the beach (3,4) |
| ERSATZ | Phoney monarch was on the throne, the least worthy character? (6) |
| TIPOFTHEICEBERG | The smallest head of salad is the least of your troubles (3,2,3,7) |
| IDLEST | Iain Duncan Smith tried initially to take in the French, being the least hard-working? (6) |
| YELLOWEST | The least brave cry most quietly, getting left out |
| ROSA | ___ Luxemburg, who Hannah Arendt called the "least understood figure in the German left" |
| EFFICIENT | Having the ability to accomplish a task with the least amount of waste |
| DEPEND | Rely on the least shallow part of the pool reportedly (6) |
| MOST | Tom's out to achieve the maximum with the least effort (4) |
| ANAL | Detail-oriented, to say the least |
| SHACK | Fixer-upper, to say the least |
