Law crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Law” are COURT, FORCE or CRIME, with 5 letters. Below are 37 answers from 4 to 13 letters, best match first in each length, then what each top answer means and how to tell them apart.

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The best answers, explained

BILL 4 letters · noun

a statute in draft before it becomes law “they held a public hearing on the bill”

COURT 5 letters · noun

a room in which a law court sits “television cameras were admitted in the courtroom”

POLICE 6 letters · noun

the force of policemen and officers

MEASURE 7 letters · noun

a statute in draft before it becomes law

OFFENDER 8 letters · noun

a person who transgresses moral or civil law

EXECUTIVE 9 letters · noun

persons who administer the law

CONTRACTOR 10 letters · noun

(law) a party to a contract

LEGISLATION 11 letters · noun

law enacted by a legislative body

CONSTABULARY 12 letters · noun

the force of policemen and officers

JURISPRUDENCE 13 letters · noun

the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do

Telling them apart

With 5 squares, COURT, FORCE, CRIME, AWARD, BENCH and MUFTI all fit. The third letter tells them all apart: U → COURT · R → FORCE · I → CRIME · A → AWARD · N → BENCH · F → MUFTI. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 6 squares, POLICE, EFFECT, RELIEF, LEGACY, DEVISE and FRAMER all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: P → POLICE · E → EFFECT · R → RELIEF · L → LEGACY · D → DEVISE · F → FRAMER. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 7 squares, MEASURE, SHERIFF and BEQUEST all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: M → MEASURE · S → SHERIFF · B → BEQUEST. Fill in that crossing answer first.

Other forms of this clue

Clues often use another form of the word, and the answer then takes the same form: “lawed” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “law” means

• noun: the collection of rules imposed by authority (“civilization presupposes respect for the law”)
• noun: legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity (“there is a law against kidnapping”)
• noun: a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
• noun: a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature (“the laws of thermodynamics”)

A clue usually points at one of these senses, so the right answer is the one that matches the sense the puzzle means: check it against the crossing words.

About these answers

We match the clue against our own thesaurus and dictionary (Open English WordNet): words that mean the same as LAW, and words whose definition is LAW. We don't copy answers from newspaper puzzles, so a clue that leans on trivia or wordplay may need the crossing letters instead.