| SNOOPS | Investigates cutlery being laid the wrong way |
| CHARABANC | E.g. transport accident out East involving a rail laid the wrong way |
| FIREWORKS | Noisy display of anger with cutlery being thrown around (9) |
| 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 |
| PAVED | _ the way for: laid the foundation for? |
| LAITY | People being laid back after losing the vote |
| DIAL | Face the possibility of being laid up (4) |
| GRASSED | Informed on one being laid out on the lawn? (7) |
| 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) |
| EGGS | Said to turn to diamonds 100 years after being laid on Good Friday, symbols of birth, life and of spring, used in the tradition of jarping and depicted in chocolate at Easter (4) |
| AESOP | Who told "The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs" |
| CABOT | Explorer who laid the groundwork for the British claim to Canada |
| EGG | The Goose That Laid the Golden ___ |
| EASTERN | The Great ---, ship which laid the first Transatlantic telegraph cable (7) |
| MARTYRS | They laid the foundations for modern trade unionism: The Tolpuddle ___ (7) |
| REPEL | Offend sick person being laid up (5) |
| BEDRIDDEN | Instructed to get Eastern doctor in, being laid up (9) |
| LADETTE | Vulgar woman partly regretted always being laid back (7) |
| RAVAGED | Was furious about state being laid waste |
| PIGSINBLANKETS | Silk pants being laid out as festive treat (4,2,8) |
