Related Clues:

• Let up, following half a century to be let
• Took it gently with a seed
• Was in the van, but not lightly, by the sound of it
• To have been the leader sounds no light matter
• Cross to the editor, just to make it hard
• Got on with it gently
• One did this in with the winner
• Drawn, but not lightly, by the sound of it
• What the leader did to lend weight to it, by the sound of it
• Add this is bad
• It gave one comfort that it might have been let follow fifty
• Sounds heavy enough to have been in the van
• The responsibility of having been in charge sounds heavy
• Sounds as if it's no light matter to be in command
• Sounds heavy to have been in the van