| JUDICIARY | Relating to courts of law |
| FORENSIC | Relating to courts of law |
| DOCKS | Wharfs; bony tops of tails; or, from Flemish for "chicken coops, rabbit hutches, sties", enclosures for the accused in courts of law (5) |
| TRIBALS | Courts of law |
| CANCELLI | Lattice work barriers or enclosures seen in courts of law or churches (8) |
| BARRISTER | A lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law (9) |
| SOLICITOR | Lawyer representing clients in the lower courts of law (9) |
| HILARY | Named after a French bishop, the spring term of the courts of England and Wales and the courts of Ireland as well as the universities of Oxford and of Dublin (6) |
| EDICTS | Orders journalist to get information to courts (6) |
| MAKESUP | ___ ___ to : courts, curries favour with? (5,2) |
| MARCOPOLO | Venetian traveller to the courts of Kublai Khan ? (5,4) |
| LEETS | Historically, courts of record held by some manorial lords; or, Scots for rolls of candidates suitable for posts (5) |
| ASSIZE | Courts of ____ heard major cases in England and Wales until they were replaced by the 1971 Courts Act |
| ARMSTRONG | Louis Stadium, one of the show courts of the US Open tennis tournament (9) |
| STRAND | Thoroughfare in London, location of the Royal Courts of Justice (6) |
| STRIKEUPTHEBAND | Spooner's to cycle past Royal Courts of Justice? Let's hear some music (6,2,3,4) |
| ATRIA | Courts of sorts |
| STEEL | Courts of record formerly backed trustworthiness |
| HILLIARD | Nicholas -; limner and portrait miniaturist at the courts of Elizabeth I and James I (8) |
| ECHO | "In the Courts of the Conqueror" author Walter R. ___-Hawk |
