| STRIKEUPTHEBAND | Spooner's to cycle past Royal Courts of Justice? Let's hear some music (6,2,3,4) |
| STRAND | Thoroughfare in London, location of the Royal Courts of Justice (6) |
| ASTRIDE | Maybe cycle past a stone, going across (7) |
| STJAMES | The royal court of the UK, to which foreign diplomats are accredited (2,5) |
| CHANCERY | Division of the courts of justice (8) |
| HOMECOMINGQUEENS | Members of royal courts who may be crowned at halftime |
| AULIC | Of royal courts |
| 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) |
| FORENSIC | Relating to courts of law (8) |
| JUDICIARY | Relating to courts of law |
| MARCOPOLO | Venetian traveller to the courts of Kublai Khan ? (5,4) |
| HAGUE | The _, seat of government of the Netherlands; location of the International Court of Justice (5) |
| THEHAGUE | Seat of government of the Netherlands; location of the International Court of Justice (3,5) |
| CHAPEL | Small type of church or holy sanctuary; a choir attached to a royal court or the aforementioned place of worship; a printing office; or, a trade union of journalists (6) |
| DOCKS | Wharfs; bony tops of tails; or, from Flemish for "chicken coops, rabbit hutches, sties", enclosures for the accused in courts of law (5) |
| 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) |
| ECHO | "In the Courts of the Conqueror" author Walter R. ___-Hawk |
| BARRISTER | A lawyer who speaks in the higher courts of law (9) |
