| EDICTAL | Of an order issued by government (7) |
| EDICT | An order issued by a sovereign or government (5) |
| AMNESTIES | Official pardons issued by governments |
| PASSPORTS | Documents issued by governments to facilitate travelling abroad and to authenticate identity |
| DECREES | Orders issued by ones in authority (7) |
| TEMPLAR | Word for a member of an order of knights established by Crusaders around 1119; or, a barrister of the Middle or Inner two of the four Inns of Court in London (7) |
| SUMMONS | Court order issued on Sunday after some discussion (7) |
| CODERED | Immediate stop order issued to trains on London Underground (4,3) |
| FRANCIS | Old coin is for the founder of an order (7) |
| RODENTS | Mammals of an order characterised by two continuously growing incisors in the upper and lower jaws |
| OCTOPOD | Any of an order of cephalopod molluscs that have eight arms bearing sessile suckers |
| WRIT | Formal written order issued by a court (4) |
| DIKTAT | Harsh order issued by authority (6) |
| EDICTS | Orders issued by the government or monarchy (6) |
| PRIMATE | Mammal of an order that includes apes, bushbabies, humans, lemurs, tarsiers, marmosets and monkeys ( |
| UPANDDOWN | Variable marching orders issued by the Duke of York (2,3,4) |
| DIRECTIVE | Order issued from above (9) |
| DISUSE | Order issued -our pits were destined to fall into this (6) |
| BARONET | Member of an order, not of the peerage or knightage, but an entirely separate dignity of their own (7) |
| EDICTOFNANTES | Order issued in 1598 granting substantial rights to French Protestants (5,2,6) |
