| BELLI | Attorney Melvin known as "The King of Torts" |
| MELVINBELLI | King of Torts |
| NADER | Ralph who founded the American Museum of Tort Law |
| FORDPINTO | Nineteen-seventies car with an exhibition in the American Museum of Tort Law |
| ARSENIC | Based on Persian for "gold", a toxic element with compounds including orpiment, or king's yellow as a pigment, once used as an untraceable of murder known as the king of poisons or poison of kings (7) |
| LIBEL | Sort of tort |
| PETULENGRO | Surname of the horse trader, violinist, businessman, writer and broadcaster known as the "King of the Gypsies" |
| REBELLION | Addressing attorney Melvin concerning uprising (9) |
| BELLIDANCING | Attorney Melvin cutting up a rug? |
| DETINUE | Crime of wrongful detention of property, replaced in the UK by the tort of wrongful interference with goods in 1978 (7) |
| PUMPKIN | Fruit known as the king of the vegetable patch, related to squashes, cucumbers, watermelons and courgettes, versatile in cookery as it can be served in sweet, savoury or spicy dishes (7) |
| ENGLISHOAK | Tree species native to Britain known as the king of the forest, in which Charles II hid from the Roundheads (7,3) |
| ORIENT | - Express; known as "the king of trains and the train of kings" and depicted in a novel by Agatha Christie, a vehicle created by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits in 1883 (6) |
| ESCOFFIER | Auguste ___ (1846-1935), French chef known as 'the king of chefs and the chef of kings' (9) |
| LIONS | Known as the "kings of the jungle", animals living in prides in savannas, grasslands and forests of India and Africa, and the Longleat estate in Wilshire (5) |
| LION | Animal known as "the king of the jungle" |
| BUYONEGETONEFRED | Guy known as 'the king of the coupon clippers'? |
| ELMORE | James known as the King of the Slide Guitar |
| KING | BB ___: singer and guitarist known as the 'King of the Blues' |
| ROYROGERS | Actor known as the King of the Cowboys |
