| IUS | Justice (3rd n.) and the court: lex |
| BREAK | Snap n and the puzzle theme |
| SLEEP | Half a mile in a month? ~n and the rest! |
| HILARY | Named after a French bishop, the spring term of the courts of England and Wales and the courts of Ireland as well as the universities of Oxford and of Dublin (6) |
| LAW | "The __ allows it, and the court awards it": "The Merchant of Venice" |
| RICHARDPOSNER | Author of "Breaking the Deadlock: The 2000 Election, the Constitution and the Courts" |
| KAYE | White Christmas and The Court Jester actor Danny |
| MEMORABILE | Remarkable, (n. adj.) or (3rd. n. subst.) |
| SILEX | Pebble, flint, and metaphorically, hard-heartedness (3rd n.) |
| LUX | Light and therefore, for poets, day (3rd n.) |
| ENS | N nn n and n and n |
| AEQUORIS | Of the sea (3rd n.), metaphor due to its marble-like flatness |
| PECUS | A herd (3rd n.) |
| NEMORA | Woods (nemus, 3rd n. nom., acc.) |
| BOVES | Oxen (3rd n.): poculi calidi reminisceris |
| ORIS | Os, ____ (3rd n.) of a mouth: buccae |
| CULMEN | Top, summit, apex (3rd n.) |
| AGMEN | That which is driven, an army, herd etc (3rd n.) |
| TERTIUM | Adv. for the third time, adj. third (n.sing.) |
| CUPIDITATE | With a good wish or, more commonly, in lust (3rd n. abl.) |
