Related Clues:

• Careless or slack
• Slack, not severe
• Easy, soft
• Indulgent, easy
• Merciful, not severe
• Loose or immoral
• 'Indulgent, easy (7)'
• Not severe in punishing
• One may get worried about 'er because she's so beastly long
• Strictly speaking, it's not let around nine
• Let it be about 15 across, but not strictly speaking
• One might not strictly speaking allow this to be about nine
• It's not, strictly speaking, for nine in the let
• Strictly speaking, that would be contrary
• Let it be about nine, but not in the strict sense