| DUEPROCESS | Heart of the U.S. legal system, with roots in the 19-Across |
| SULAWESI | Island’s legal system blocking appeals by one |
| ZOEBURDEN | Name of the investment banker in the 19 across series. (3,6) |
| ALOFT | High in the 19-Across |
| BLACKBIRD | They were taken to Australia and New Zealand in the 19th century. The female of this species makes a nest of plant stems, grass, twigs, and roots in the shape of a cup. In the New World, the name of t |
| ELGIN | There's a place reserved in Athens for the return of the sculpted marble pieces souvenired in the 19 |
| TDS | The Rams scored none of these in the '19 Super Bowl, and the Chiefs none in '21 |
| EPIS | One with roots in the Church of Eng. |
| EPISCOPAL | Church with roots in the Church of England |
| GINSENGS | Sign off to half engage society with roots in the Far East (8) |
| PUNCH | Traditional seaside puppet show with roots in the commedia dell'arte, _ and Judy (5) |
| HOUSEMUSIC | Genre with roots in the Chicago club scene |
| GYROS | Dish with roots in the Ottoman Empire |
| TARTAN | Textile with roots in the Scottish Highlands |
| GRISHAM | John, U.S. legal thriller writer noted for his 1991 novel The Firm (7) |
| BALDACCI | David, U.S. legal thriller writer whose first book Absolute Power was published in 1996 (8) |
| YIYUN | Li who won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for "The Book of Goose," about a literary hoax concocted by two French teen-agers in the nineteen-fifties (April, 2023) |
| SMARTSET | Literary magazine co-edited by H. L. Mencken in the nineteen-tens and twenties, with The |
| BATMAN | Wearer of a suit with nipples in the nineteen-nineties |
| TNOTE | Form of U.S. legal tender |