RULE

It's made to be broken, proverbially

• ___ of thumb

• ___ out (exclude)

• ___ Britannia!

• ___ Britannia (Thomas Arne classic)

• 'No tag-backs,' e.g.

• Don't ask, don't tell, e.g.

• Everybody Wants to ___ the World

• First in, first out, e.g.

• Golden principle

• I before E except after C, e.g.

• I before E..., e.g.

• Look both ways before crossing, e.g.

• Look twice before crossing, e.g.

• No peeking in hide-and-seek, e.g.

• No shirt, no shoes, no service, e.g.

• The ___ of Four (2004 bestseller)

• Three strikes and you're out, e.g.

• A famous one is golden

• A popular one is golden

• Act as an arbiter

• Act as arbiter

• Acting in turn (in a game), e.g.*

• Adjudicate

• Announce a decision

• Arbitrate

• Arne's ___ Britannia

• As a ___ (usually)

• Authority

• Axiom

• Be a monarch

• Be awesome, in slang

• Be boss

• Be extremely cool, in slang

• Be in charge

• Be in the driver's seat

• Be king

• Be king over

• Be kinglike

• Be queen

• Be sovereign

• Be the boss

• Be the master of

• Book preceder

• Breaking it might cost you strokes

• Bylaw

• Call the shots

• Carpenter's tool

• Command

• Command the kingdom

• Control

• Courts and kings do it

• Crime novelist Ann

• Decide

• Decide judiciously

• Decide officially

• Decide, as a judge

• Decide, as a jury

• Dictum

• Do or don't

• Dominate

• Dominion

• Draw a straight line

• Draw the line?

• Eliminate (an option), with out

• Eliminate, with out

• Emulate an arbitrator

• Exclude, with out

• Exercise authority

• Exercise control

• Exercise sovereignty

• Formally decide

• Formula

• Gag followup?

• Game boundary

• Game guide

• Game player's concern

• Gaming regulation

• General principle

• Golden

• Golden for one

• Golden or ground follower

• Golden or slide

• Golden thing

• Golden, e.g.

• Govern

• Govern, or word that can follow the first word of the four longest puzzle answers

• Governing regulation

• Guideline

• Guiding concept

• Hand down a decision

• Hard-and-fast ___

• Have power over

• Have the final say

• Have the say

• Have the throne

• Hold sway

• Hold sway over

• Hold the scepter

• House or golden follower

• Hoyle decision

• Hoyle specialty

• Imperative

• Infield fly ___

• Issue a verdict

• It can be golden

• It could be golden

• It may be standing

• It may begin Do not...

• It may begin with Do not

• It may slide

• It's made to measure

• Ja ___

• Lay down the law

• Legal explication

• Lenny Kravitz: Let Love ___

• Line

• Line to printers

• Line-drawing tool

• Listing in Hoyle's

• Lord over

• Lord over a kingdom

• Lowball's 7s ---*

• Make a call

• Make a decision

• Make a judicial decision

• Make a margin

• Mark with lines

• Masters do it

• Mastery

• Measurer

• Measuring aid

• Measuring stick

• Measuring thing

• Mob or slide

• Normal condition

• Normative example

• Notebook marking

• Occupy the throne

• Official's book

• Ordinance

• Pass judgement

• Pattern

• Precept

• Preside over

• Principle

• Printer's line

• Pronounce with authority

• Prove to be way cool

• Queens do it

• Queensberry dictum

• Queensbury's creation

• Referee's guideline

• Regnum

• Regulating principle

• Regulation

• Regulation's relative

• Reign

• Reign over

• Render a verdict

• Robert's item

• Run the country

• Run the place

• Run the realm

• Run the show

• Run things

• Sevens ---: in lowball*

• Sit on the throne

• Slide ___

• Slide follower?

• Standard of judgment

• Statute

• Straight line

• Take charge of

• Take to the throne

• The Golden ___

• The Hoyle thing?

• Thing to follow

• Thumb standard with of

• To govern.

• Type of book studied by game officials

• Umpire's guideline

• Wear the crown

• What kings and courts do

• What your favorite band does

• Wield a scepter

• Wield power

• Wield the scepter

• Word with slide, ground or golden

• Word with golden or slide

• Word with ground or golden

• Word with mob or slide

• Word with slide or home

• You may live by one

• Dominance or power through legal authority

• Measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths

• (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems

• Directions that define the way a game or sport is to be conducted

• The duration of a monarch's or government's power

• A basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct

• Prescribed guide for conduct or action

• Something regarded as a normative example

• A principle or condition that customarily governs behavior

• A systematic body of regulations defining the way of life of members of a religious order