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Regard Labour leader in Lincoln as worthy of respect (12)

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I believe the answer is:

considerable

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'worthy of respect' is the definition.
'considerable' can be an answer for 'worthy' (thesaurus). I am unsure of the 'of respect' bit.

'regard labour leader in lincoln' is the wordplay.
'regard' becomes 'consider' (synonyms).
'labour leader' becomes 'l' (the leading letter of 'labour').
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'lincoln' becomes 'abe' (I've seen this in another clue).
'l' put into 'abe' is 'able'.
'consider'+'able'='CONSIDERABLE'

'as' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for considerable that I've seen before include "Fairly large or numerous" , "of some importance" , "A lot (of) - worthy of respect" , "Major" , "Significant" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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