| LIRE | Read, as "Le Monde" |
| ROUSSEAU | French post impressionist painter known as 'Le Douanier' because of his employment as a tax collector (8) |
| XIV | Louis known as "Le Roi Soleil" |
| LOUISXV | Known as le Bien-Aime (the Beloved), the king of France from 1715-74 (5,2) |
| COUPERIN | Known as "le Grand", a composer and harpsichordist who served at the court of the Sun King, Louis XIV (8) |
| GEORGESCLEMENCEAU | French Prime Minister, 1906-09 and 1917-20, known as 'Le Tigre' |
| MAIGRETSPICKPOCKET | 1967 Georges Simenon novel originally published as Le Voleur de Maigret |
| PETERLORRE | Jewish-Hungarian actor, first to play a James Bond villain as 'Le Chiffre' in a 1954 TV version of 'Casino Royale' (1904-1964) |
| RWANDA | Landlocked country of central Africa known as 'le pays des mille collines' (French: 'land of a thousand hills') (6) |
| DEVIGENRE | For many years this type of simple polyalphabtic cipher was thought to be impregnable and was known as le chiffre indechiffrable, literally "the unbreakable cipher." |
| PICKPOCKET | 1967 Georges Simenon novel originally published as Le Voleur de Maigret (8,10) |
| MAIGRETS | 1967 Georges Simenon novel originally published as Le Voleur de Maigret (8,10) |
| FRENCHROAST | *"Tu as le Q.I. d'une huitre" ("You have the I.Q. of an oyster") |
| HENRIROUSSEAU | Painting The Sleeping Gypsy in 1897, which French painter is also known as Le Douanier, meaning the customs officer? (5,8) |
| HENRI | French primitive painter popularly known as Le Douanier (the Customs Officer); Tiger in a Tropical Storm (1891), The Sleeping Gypsy (1897) etc. (5,8) |
| TOURS | Large city known as 'Le Jardin de la France' (5) |
| UNCUT | Article from Le Monde, astute in dismissing English as a whole |
| UNE | Article from Le Monde? |
| UNS | Articles in Le Monde |
| ATOUT | Megadeth "___ Le Monde" |
