| NOMOLOGY | Science of laws of the mind (8) |
| RURAL | Artist breaking 60% of laws of the country |
| LARUE | Lash of "Law of the Lash" |
| STATUTES | Laws of the land |
| EINSTEIN | Recipient of a Nobel prize "for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect" |
| AGRICOLA | Roman general who was father-in-law of the historian, Tacitus (8) |
| PERSIANS | Ancient law of the Medes and these people |
| 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) |
| MEDES | Unalterable code, the laws of the ... and the Persians |
| JUNGLE | Law of the -; derived from the laws and life codes of the wolves in the stories by Rudyard Kipling, an expression meaning "survival of the fittest" (6) |
| DRACONIAN | Extremely severe, as the laws of the archon of Athens (621 BC) (9) |
| MEDIA | Is this where the laws of the Medes were promulgated? (5) |
| DHARMA | In Hinduism, the eternal laws of the universe (6) |
| JURISPRUDENCE | The science of law |
| NEWTON | Knighted natural philosopher, formulator of laws of motion, etc. (5,6) |
| ISAAC | Knighted natural philosopher, formulator of laws of motion, etc. (5,6) |
| VAINNEWTON | Egotistical describer of laws of motion? |
| KEPLER | Discoverer of laws of planetary motion |
| ISAACNEWTON | Formulator of laws of motion (5,6) |
| ROUS | Stanley .... , 1961-74 FIFA President; previously a referee and administrator who rewrote the Laws of the Game (4) |
