| COPPERBEECH | The law of the forest? (6,5) |
| AREPARTANDPARCELOF | "Hackney-coaches ____ the law of the land; they were settled by the Legislature; plated and numbered by the wisdom of Parliament" (Dickens, in Sketches by Boz) |
| CANON | ___ Law is the law of the Catholic Church. (5) |
| ESTATE | Focus of the law of the land? |
| BALOO | Character from The Jungle Book who teaches Mowgli the Law of the Jungle |
| IMPACT | Effect the law of the devil? |
| MOSAIC | Concerning the Law of the Jews from Mt Sinai (6) |
| JUNGLE | In Kipling's works, 'the law of the ...' wasn't survival of the strongest but the expected way of behaving displayed by the animals |
| MUFTI | Muslim legal expert and advisor on the law of the Koran (5) |
| GOSTRAIGHT | Leave right away, to stick to the law of the land (2,8) |
| SPOUSE | One per customer, please: As long as monogamy is the law of the land, a person can have only one at a time |
| ERA | Legislation controversially declared "the law of the land" by Joe Biden in 2025: Abbr. |
| ISAACNEWTON | Formulator of the law of gravitation |
| TREESURGEON | Does he operate in the forest? (4,7) |
| SLIDINGDEER | Best skater in the forest? |
| EINSTEIN | Recipient of a Nobel prize "for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect" |
| ARK | From Old English for "box", the wooden chest in which the tablets of the laws of the ancient Israelites were kept; any coffer; Noah's ship; a toy depicting said vessel; or, any boat (3) |
| LEXTALIONIS | The law of retaliation (3,8) |
| REST | The uncleared part of the forest? (4) |
| OAKTREE | In Britain, what is the "Monarch of the Forest"? (3,4) |
