| ALEXANDRITE | A law and ceremony identifying a variety of chrysoberyl |
| GASPERMEABLE | Cigarette butt from corpse keeps me over a barrel, identifying a variety of contacts |
| CATSEYE | Any of a group of gemstones such as a greenish-yellow variety of chrysoberyl (4,3) |
| OHM | Physicist with a law and a unit named after him |
| DEY | Susan of "L.A. Law" and "The Partridge Family" |
| DEYS | Susan of "L.A. Law", and surnamesakes |
| TVSHOWS | "L.A. Law" and "Law & Order" |
| SMITS | Jimmy of "L.A. Law" and "The West Wing" |
| EQUATOR | Associated with the sailors' initiation rite and ceremony known as crossing the line, the imaginary band in the region where sunsets and sunrises occur fastest on Earth (7) |
| ROBINGROOM | Where the monarch may get into the Westminster habit of pomp and ceremony (6,4) |
| INSTATE | Put into position with great pomp and ceremony (7) |
| ENACT | Make a law and the alien gets the can back (5) |
| TRIAL | The conclusion of a "Law & Order" episode, usually |
| COURTCASE | *The "order" part of a "Law & Order" episode |
| LEGISLATES | Makes a law and gets allies very confused (10) |
| SEDER | Passover feast and ceremony |
| CALLSIGNAL | A group of letters and numbers identifying a radio transmitting station, usually an amateur one (4,6) |
| ACACIA | A couple of accounts originally identifying a tree (6) |
| CALLSIGN | A code identifying a person broadcasting a message (4,4) |
| THU | Weeknight on which NBC aired "Hill Street Blues," "L.A. Law," and "ER": Abbr. |
