| MADAME | "___ Bovary" -- 1856 novel by Gustave Flaubert (6) |
| EMMA | First name of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1856) |
| FLAUBERT | Gustave ........, author of Madame Bovary (1856) (8) |
| BOVARY | and 8ac, 1857 novel by Gustave Flaubert (6,6) |
| MADAMEBOVARY | and 8ac, 1857 novel by Gustave Flaubert (6,6) |
| EDUCATION | 'Sentimental ---', novel by Gustave Flaubert (9) |
| SALAMMBO | Historical novel by Gustave Flaubert (8) |
| SEMELE | Depicted in an opera by Handel and a painting by Gustave Moreau, the mother, by Zeus, of Dionysus (6 |
| THEHEROES | 1856 novel by Charles Kingsley (3,6) |
| PARROT | 9 owned by Flaubert, according to Julian Barnes (6) |
| EMMABOVARY | Heroine created by French writer Gustave Flaubert (4,6) |
| DAISYCHAIN | "The ... ...", 1856 novel by Charlotte M. Yonge (5,5) |
| DAISY | The ___, 1856 novel by Charlotte M Yonge subtitled Aspirations (5,5) |
| CHAIN | The -, 1856 novel by Charlotte M Yonge subtitled Aspirations (5,5) |
| THEDAISYCHAIN | 1856 novel by Charlotte M. Yonge (3,5,5) |
| DRED | 1856 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe subtitled A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp (4) |
| GUSTAV | Grand for you and me at front of tavern on first name terms with Flaubert (6) |
| ROUEN | Normandy city that was the birthplace of Gustave Flaubert |
| SARTRE | Flaubert biographer |
| SELFISH | "To be stupid, _, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost": Gustave Flaubert (7) |
