Clues for the word "LAW"
We've had 407 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 870 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mindfood Daily crossword on May 26, 2026.
Definition of law
- n. - In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or order according to which an agent or a power acts.
- n. - In morals: The will of God as the rule for the disposition and conduct of all responsible beings toward him and toward each other; a rule of living, conformable to righteousness; the rule of action as obligatory on the conscience or moral nature.
- n. - The Jewish or Mosaic code, and that part of Scripture where it is written, in distinction from the gospel; hence, also, the Old Testament.
- n. - An organic rule, as a constitution or charter, establishing and defining the conditions of the existence of a state or other organized community.
- n. - Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute, resolution, judicial, decision, usage, etc., or recognized, and enforced, by the controlling authority.
- n. - In philosophy and physics: A rule of being, operation, or change, so certain and constant that it is conceived of as imposed by the will of God or by some controlling authority; as, the law of gravitation; the laws of motion; the law heredity; the laws of thought; the laws of cause and effect; law of self-preservation.
- n. - In matematics: The rule according to which anything, as the change of value of a variable, or the value of the terms of a series, proceeds; mode or order of sequence.
- n. - In arts, works, games, etc.: The rules of construction, or of procedure, conforming to the conditions of success; a principle, maxim; or usage; as, the laws of poetry, of architecture, of courtesy, or of whist.
- n. - Collectively, the whole body of rules relating to one subject, or emanating from one source; -- including usually the writings pertaining to them, and judicial proceedings under them; as, divine law; English law; Roman law; the law of real property; insurance law.
- n. - Legal science; jurisprudence; the principles of equity; applied justice.
- n. - Trial by the laws of the land; judicial remedy; litigation; as, to go law.
- n. - An oath, as in the presence of a court.
- v. t. - Same as Lawe, v. t.
- interj. - An exclamation of mild surprise.
Referring Clues
- Belli's bailiwick
- TV's "L.A. ___"
- Bailey's bailiwick
- Jurisprudence
- Part of 54-Down
- Corpus juris
- Johnnie Cochran's field
- Post-graduate pursuit
- Kind of partner
- Maker or breaker lead-in
- Police, with "the"
- Barrister's concern
- Bad thing to break
- Song and album by the Doors
- "It's the ___!"
- Court subject
- Some post-graduate study
- "A shrewd pickpurse": Howell
- Order's partner
- Bar topic
- One on the books
- Perry Mason's field
- Judge's study
- "The Paper Chase" topic
- Bar code?
- Judges administer it
- Something "on the books"
- Perry Mason's profession
- Police, with "the," informally
- Jurist's reading
- Scientist's formulation
- Postgrad field
- Murphy's is well known
- Postgraduate study
- Counselor's area
- 66-Across topic
- Lead-in for breaker or maker
- Word with blue or lemon
- Statute
- Word with maker or breaker
- Murphy's ___
- It's on the books
- What a criminal breaks
- Case or civil follower
- Court TV topic
- Long-armed thing
- Attorney's area
- Georgetown major
- Word with martial or Murphy's
- Guiding principle
- Word that follows the first word of 20-, 32-, 42-, and 53-Across
- Mason's profession
- Constitutional matter
- Graduate study
- "___ & Order" (show in which "vic" means "victim")
- Martial ___
- One for the books
- Practice with briefs
- Judge's concern
- Supreme Court subject
- Jude who's not obscure
- See 49-Across
- 58-Across of 2004
- Litigator's field
- A kind of it begins the answers to starred clues
- Practiced profession
- It's practiced on "The Practice"
- Central Park landscape architect Frederick ___ Olmsted
- ___ of large numbers (statistics topic)
- Murphy's is well-known
- People's Sexiest Man Alive of 2004
- Court concern
- "Where there is no ___, there is no freedom": Locke
- Murphy's ___
- Mason's field
- Barrister's field
- Business involving briefs
- Field with cases
- Attorney's profession
- Attorney's field
- Precept
- Attorney's expertise
- Grad-school specialty
- Murphy has one
- Something on the books
- Postgraduate field
- Newton formulation
- Order partner
- Dictator's word
- Murphy had one
- Attorney's field of expertise
- Some practice it
- Partner of order
- "The Practice" practice
- Barrister's practice
- Order precursor
- Post-grad study, perhaps
- Rule
- It's often found with order
- It's often broken
- Something to practice
- It has a long arm?
- "The Paper Chase" subject
- Word with "blue" or "lemon"
- Successful legislation
- Long-armed entity
- Supreme Court's sphere
- ___ of averages
- Brief subject
- Something in a code
- Graduate area of study
- "Order" partner
- British P.M. after Lloyd George
- Barrister's bailiwick
- One might cover lemons
- Bar study
- Certain clerk's concern
- "Boston Legal" profession
- Lay down the ___
- "The Practice" practice
- ___ of averages
- Trying profession?
- You get it with your order
- Criminal follower
- Turow topic
- Allred's area
- Word with common or criminal
- Perp chaser, with "the"
- Kind of practice
- Word hidden in 17-, 24-, 56- and 66-Across
- One may be passed or broken
- Enforcers, with "the"
- House work
- Mason's specialty
- It may be studied at Vanderbilt
- Sheriff's concern
- Axiom
- Type of firm in "The Firm"
- Regulation
- It has collars and stays
- Post-grad pursuit
- Court standard
- Judy's study
- Former bill
- Legislation
- Commandments
- Bar concern
- 'Alfie' star (2004)
- Matlock's field
- Denny Crane's field
- 9-Down output
- '___ & Order: Criminal Intent'
- Legisla-tion
- 'The Practice' practice
- Ally McBeal's field
- '___ & Order'
- McBeal's field
- '___ and Order'
- Congress creation
- Judge's field
- Trial topic
- Enactment
- Edict
- Ordinance
- Jude ___ of "Hugo"
- Learned Hand's field
- Learned hand's field
- See 12 Across
- Curler Kelly
- Mandate
- "___ & Order"
- Decree
- Word after leash or lemon
- Specialty of a Library of Congress
- Blue ___
- Principle
- Graduate program
- Scientific truth
- Trial subject
- Code component
- Speed limit, e.g.
- Type of suit
- Lines: Part 3
- Professional practice
- Actor Jude
- "No smoking," in some places
- Finch's field
- Martial or Murphy's ___
- What the police enforce
- Word with "maker" or "breaker"
- Proverbially long-armed entity
- Profession with partners
- It has a long arm
- Judy's field
- ___ partner
- Area with briefs and cases
- Latin is often heard in it
- Goes with order
- Legislative output
- ___ of the jungle
- Legal field
- Mendel had one
- ___ school
- Word after common or case
- Legal rule
- Dershowitz's field
- Ruling
- ' & Order'
- Alicia Florick's field
- "against the ___"
- British Columbia curler Kelly
- Attorney-at-___
- What a court interprets
- Order companion
- Postgraduate major
- Community ordinance
- Congress makes it
- Bill, after being signed by the president
- Judges lay it down
- ___ firm
- "The Good Wife" field
- Major for many presidents
- Lemon ___
- Relationship statement, in science
- Murphy's
- Robert Kardashian's field
- "The ___ is a ass": Dickens
- It might be laid down
- The Clintons studied it
- Order's counterpart
- Cops, with "the"
- Lemon
- What the police uphold
- It has a "long arm"
- Piece of legislation
- Bill's future, maybe
- Despot's word
- Governing rule
- City rule
- Brief topic
- Trial concern
- Physics class equation
- Prosecutor's field
- Some postgraduate study
- Subject for a bar discussion
- Part of a bar code?
- Autocrat's word
- Anarchist's aversion
- Important physics equation
- Case study?
- With 39-Down, business for attorneys
- What bills may become
- Police, informally
- Attorney's concern
- Actor Jude ___
- "L.A. ___"
- Congressional act
- Order's companion
- What police officers uphold
- Attorneys study it
- The long arm of the ___
- Murphy's or Gresham's
- JOHNNY ___ (THE COPS)
- Good thing to obey
- The police enforce it
- Thing to obey
- Thing to obey or follow
- Postgraduate study, perhaps
- It gets laid down
- Thing to obey to keep from being arrested
- System of rules
- Bill's aspiration
- 24-Across' field
- If you fight it, it might win
- Stryper "Against the ___"
- Unwritten ___
- "I Fought the ___"
- As a rule, it curtails the walk back
- It's usually kept in Delaware
- It's legal to crack some walnuts
- Walk most of the way back, as a rule
- Legal help in putting a wall up
- It's kept in Delaware, but broken in Wall Street
- Crack some walnuts, as a rule
- It's supposed to be kept in Bulawayo
- It should be kept in Delaware
- Sotomayor's specialty
- It's rightly kept in Delaware
- Some lay it down
- What a bill covers
- Magistrate's focus
- Brief subject?
- Specialty of 101 Across
- Subject for Grisham
- Darrows field
- Clerk's field
- "The ___ is a ass": Dickens's Mr. Bumble
- Body of rules
- Scientific principle
- USA Patriot Act, e.g.
- It's often broken in Los Angeles West
- Start walking back, as a rule
- See 22
- Typical John Grisham subject
- Result of a veto override
- It's kept in Delaware, but broken in Wales
- What Gandhi once practiced
- '70s Ohio band that followed the rules?
- Bar focus
- It's not damaged by being broken
- What the "attorney" is "at"?
- Subject of a bar exam
- "The Talented Mr. Ripley" actor Jude
- Police enforce it
- It's legal to have relationships in it
- Marshal's concern
- Item on the books
- Jurist's study
- Its practice doesn't make it perfect
- Obama's postgrad study
- As laid down in Delaware?
- What "torah" means
- The "L" of LSAT
- As a rule, it's half walled up
- Its spirit may be broken
- Something to obey
- Common practice
- House work?
- Ginsburg's field
- Foundation of a civil society
- Jurist's concern
- It may be laid down
- Field with many partners
- Counselor's subject
- Case study?
- Word after Murphy's or lemon
- Matlock's concern
- It's badly broken
- Part of LSAT
- Bar code?
- Judge’s specialty
- It's broken in Wales, but not in Bulawayo
- In legal matters, there's many a point
- LSAT part
- One may be purposely broken
- Jurist’s focus
- Legal profession
- Bar subject
- It's usually kept half walled up
- Practice in USA's "Suits"
- Breaking one is risky
- Legal code
- It's laid down
- Bit of legislation
- Proven postulate
- Bill, eventually
- Topic discussed by the bar
- Annalise Keating teaches it
- Charlotte E. Ray's field
- It can be broken, but not fixed
- It can be broken in Bulawayo
- Fred Gray's expertise
- Word before "school" or "firm"
- What a dictator's word is
- One badly broken?
- Bench subject
- If it's action you want, go to it!
- Physicist's principle
- It's echoed, at first, by certain lords
- No one should break it
- It's just an act
- Saul's field in "Better Call Saul"
- Field with cases and briefs
- Court of ___
- Mother-in-___
- Public defender's expertise
- Cop's concern
- ___ of diminishing returns
- Legislator's creation
- ABA Journal topic
- "The ___ allows it, and the court awards it": "The Merchant of Venice"
- The "L" in LSAT
- "___ & Order: SVU"
- Murphy's -
- What a bill may become
- Hammurabi's area of expertise
- Translation of "torah"
- "Buckle up! It's the ___"
- "Captain Marvel" actor
- Ketanji Brown Jackson's field
- Sonia Sotomayor's field
- Capitol Hill output
- Kim Wexler's field on "Better Call Saul"
- Break it and you risk jail time
- What attorneys practice
- ___ of attrition
- Appealing subject?
- What an attorney practices
- "She-Hulk: Attorney at ___"
- Grisham's field
- One may cover estates
- What's broken for a record?
- Legislative act
- Justice's domain
- Canon
- Legal decree
- Saul Goodman's field in "Better Call Saul"
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- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 01, 2026
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- Penny Dell Daily - February 17, 2026
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