| HELENE | "La Belle ___" (Offenbach opera parodying the story of Paris and his lover) |
| HUGO | Who wrote the romantic novel about a hunchbacked bellringer in medieval Paris and his hopeless love for Esmeralda? (4) |
| HOFFMANN | The Tales Of ___ , Offenbach opera (8) |
| HOFFMAN | The Tales of ___, Offenbach opera (7) |
| HIAWATHA | 1855 epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow telling the story of an Ojibwe warrior chief and his lover Minnehaha (3,4,2,8) |
| THESONGOF | 1855 epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow telling the story of an Ojibwe warrior chief and his lover Minnehaha (3,4,2,8) |
| SHAMELA | "An apology for the life of Mrs ___", Henry Fielding novel parodying the Samuel Richardson work Pamela (7,7) |
| ANDREWS | "An apology for the life of Mrs ... ...", Henry Fielding novel parodying the Samuel Richardson work Pamela (7,7) |
| ATSEA | Like Owl and his lover, Pussycat's eating a slice (2,3) |
| BEWILDERED | Ultimately, Bosie and his lover entering had children in perplexity (10) |
| AVENUEQ | Stage musical parodying the TV show Sesame Street |
| PEELE | George -; dramatist who wrote The Arraignment of Paris and is often cited as contributing to part of the Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (5) |
| SUE | French surgeon-turned-author and dandy who penned The Mysteries of Paris and depiction of fashionable high life in Arthur (3) |
| PRIAM | He was the father of Paris and king of Troy |
| HECUBA | In Greek myths, the mother of Paris and wife of Priam (6) |
| EPOQUE | The pre-WWI era, La belle ___ |
| PAREE | "La Belle ___" (revue that launched Al Jolson's career) |
| ELOPE | The last of the antelope will run away with his lover (5) |
| DAME | Keats's "La Belle ___ Sans Merci" |
| ETLA | Cocteau's La Belle ___ Bate |
