| LBW | Dismissal governed by Law 36 of the Laws of Cricket as written by the MCC |
| OUT | Dismissal governed by Law 38 in the Laws of Cricket (3) |
| RUN | Dismissal governed by Law 38 in the Laws of Cricket (3) |
| EDJOYCE | Scorer of the first run for Ireland in Test cricket as he became the oldest Test debutant this century |
| POETIC | As written by the bard, I see (6) |
| BAIL | Described in Law 8 of the Laws of Cricket, either of the two crosspieces bridging the stumps of a wicket (4) |
| STUMPED | Dismissed according to Law 39 of the Laws of Cricket (7) |
| OVERRULE | Invalidate one of the laws of cricket, apparently (8) |
| OVER | Set aside part of the laws of cricket? (8) |
| ROBERT | Forename of either the polymath discoverer of the law of elasticity, the inventor of the Bunsen burner or the Royal Society co-founder regarded as the first modern chemist (6) |
| ARK | From Old English for "box", the wooden chest in which the tablets of the laws of the ancient Israelites were kept; any coffer; Noah's ship; a toy depicting said vessel; or, any boat (3) |
| ISAAC | Scientist who first wrote of the laws of gravitation, Sir ... Newton |
| ENERGY | Subject of the laws of thermodynamics |
| KEPLER | Formulator of the laws of planetary movement |
| EINSTEIN | Recipient of a Nobel prize "for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect" |
| RULES | Regulations, such as those in the Highway Code or Laws of Cricket (5) |
| HOOKE | Discoverer of the law of elasticity whose folio volume Micrographia illustrated with copperplate engravings was an early book published by the Royal Society (5) |
| MASSACTION | Chemical process governed by law in case brought by many people (4,6) |
| EPODE | A lyric poem as written by some dope in the East (5) |
| HIPS | The second "36" of 36-24-36 |
