| HAMMURABI | Babylonian king who instituted one of the earliest surviving codes of law in recorded history (9) |
| GEORGE | King who instituted a decoration for bravery; a character in Joyce Grenfell's "don't do that" Nursery School monologue; or, a spoken word performer known as "the poet" (6) |
| PERI | Jacopo ___, composer of the earliest surviving opera |
| MONTEVERDI | Claudio -; composer whose L'Orfeo is the earliest surviving opera still regularly performed today (10) |
| PLAUTUS | Roman playwright whose comedies are the earliest surviving Latin literary works (7) |
| TAMBORA | Volcano on the northern coast of Sumbawa island, Indonesia, that in April 1815 exploded in the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. (7) |
| SHARIAH | Code of law derived from the Qur'an and Muhammad's teachings (7) |
| OFFENSIVE | Four in breach of law in America - the disagreeable type (9) |
| ISABELLAI | Queen of Castile who instituted the Spanish Inquisition with husband Ferdinand of Aragon (8,1) |
| ETIQUETTE | Codes of polite behaviour in society, described in books by Debrett's (9) |
| CHRONICLE | Recorded history (9) |
| VOICEMAIL | Say bloke is heard in recorded message (9) |
| AUDACIOUS | Bold account in recorded sound followed by American |
| PROTOCOLS | Codes of conduct |
| 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) |
| BEWARE | Be brave at first in bending the rule of law in advance notice of possible charges? (6,2,3,4) |
| ADZE | Hand tool for shaping wood. One of the earliest tools, it was widely distributed in Stone Age cultures in the form of a handheld stone chipped to form a blade. (4) |
| ARTDECO | Glass maker Rene Lalique was one of the earliest proponents of this design style of the 20s and 30s |
| ROBOT | The concept of artificial humans predates recorded history, but the modern term _____ derives from a Czech word that means forced labour or serf, used in Karel AÂŒapek's 1920 play R.U.R. (5) |
| CODEOFHAMMURABI | Babylonian king's law etched onto an ancient basalt stele at the Louvre in Paris: 3 wds. |
