| NEGLIGENCE | A decomposed snail in a ginger beer bottle in 1928 led to the case which laid the foundation of laws about ____ |
| AQUA | Band whose song "Barbie Girl" led to the case Mattel v. MCA Records |
| SHARIA | Foundation of law in Qatar |
| ALICANTE | One tin and initially three beer bottles in Spanish resort (8) |
| BELL | Virginia Woolf's elder sister whose home at Charleston was a retreat for the Bloomsbury set; an artist in the Abstract style whose paintings include Flowers in a Ginger Jar and Cotton, Lavender and Qu |
| FLORENCE | And 19 English nurse whose work during the Crimean War laid the foundations of modern nursing (8,11) |
| NEWTON | Sir Isaac -; scientist who laid the foundations of classical mechanics in his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (6) |
| IBSEN | Norwegian dramatist whose work laid the foundations of modern drama |
| NUT | A seed in a hard shell to which the bonce is likened; a ginger biscuit; or, the hexagonal companion of a bolt (3) |
| RACE | A ginger root; a class of wine; a division of humankind; an onward rush; a rapid current of water; a millrun; or, a contest in speed or getting ahead (4) |
| PASCAL | "By space the universe embraces me and swallows me up like an atom, by thought I embrace the universe." He was a French mathematician who laid the foundation for the modern theory of probabilities. Wh |
| INLAY | Printed card or booklet attached to the case of a CD, DVD or cassette; or, the technique or process of boulle or marquetry (5) |
| VASARI | Italian painter and architect whose Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects laid the foundation for the study of art history (6) |
| MOGGY | A pet form of "Margaret" that is given as a nickname to a cat, a cow, a ginger cake or a scarecrow (5) |
| TYNDALL | Irish physicist who laid the foundation for our understanding of climate change and of the greenhouse effect (7) |
| SNAP | A winning cry drawing attention to a pair of matching playing cards or to two similar things generally; a quick bite to eat; or, a ginger biscuit (4) |
| GREAT | Ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel which laid the Transatlantic telegraph cable in 1865 (5,7) |
| EASTERN | Ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel which laid the Transatlantic telegraph cable in 1865 (5,7) |
| SHELLS | Outer layers of oological objects whose colours are used to identify the avians which laid them (6) |
| AUGER | A plumber's snake; a gimlet, wimble or other boring tool; or, a sea snail in the genus Terebra with a drill bit-like tapering spiral shell (5) |
