Precept
The crossword clue "Precept" is answered by LAW, a 3-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1966. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
LAW
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LAW answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1966. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- DOCTRINE (2 uses in xd)
Other clues for LAW
Every other clue in this collection answered by LAW, most used first.
- Statute - used 69 times, most recently in 2026
- Attorney's field - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
- Legislation - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
- Bar topic - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- Order's partner - used 37 times, most recently in 2025
- Attorney's expertise - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Bar code? - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Order partner - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Ordinance - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Jurisprudence - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
- Regulation - used 24 times, most recently in 2024
- Court concern - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
- Murphy's -- - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Bar concern - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
- Barrister's field - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Rule - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Bar study - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Attorney's profession - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Perry Mason's field - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Actor Jude - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Perry Mason's profession - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Canon - used 7 times, most recently in 1995
- House work? - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Order's companion - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Piece of legislation - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Principle - used 7 times, most recently in 2012
- Professional practice - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Something on the books - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Judge's concern - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Judge's field - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Mason's field - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
- "___ & Order" - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Postgraduate field - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
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