Related Clues:

• Merciful, not severe
• Kind-hearted and compassionate
• 'Indulgent, easy (7)'
• Not severe in punishing
• It's all very fine to let about a pound of it get hard
• One might expect mercy from a pound in 8 across
• One may get worried about 'er because she's so beastly long
• Strictly speaking, it's not let around nine
• About a pound of concrete to make it mild
• Let it be about 15 across, but not strictly speaking
• Kind of colourful around him
• 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