| EUGENIE | 1833 novel by Honore de Balzac (7,7) |
| GRANDET | 1833 novel by Honore de Balzac (7,7) |
| THELILYOF | 1835 novel by Honore de Balzac (3,4,2,3,6) |
| LABOURSE | Short story by Honore de Balzac, anglicised as The Purse |
| EUGENEONEGIN | 1833 'novel in verse' by Russian author Alexander Pushkin adapted into an opera by Tchaikovsky in 1879 (6,6) |
| WILDASSSSKIN | "The ... ... ...", Honore de Balzac novel whose central character is Raphael (4,4,4) |
| COUSINBETTE | 1998 film starring Jessica Lange in the title role, based on a Honore de Balzac novel (6,5) |
| LAWSARESPIDER | Start of an Honore de Balzac observation |
| LOVE | 'Poetry of the senses,' per Honore de Balzac |
| FRENCHLIT | Class whose topics might stretch from Honore de Balzac to Houellebecq |
| UNEMOTIONAL | "Musicians are seldom ____; a woman who could sing like that must know how to love indeed" (Honore de Balzac) |
| GORIOT | *HonorE de Balzac's "Le PEre ___" |
| BALZAC | Honore de -, the French novelist whose works include La Cousine Bette, Le Cure De Tours and Le Pere Goriot (6) |
| HONORE | Novelist -- de Balzac |
| MUSEES | "Maison de Balzac," et al. |
| ERONOH | -- de Balzac |
| RUIN | 'Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ___": de Balzac (4) |
| URFE | Honore d'-; author whose 17th-century pastoral L'Astree is considered the first French novel (4) |
| DAUMIER | Honore ___, French painter whose works include 1863's The Laundress (7) |
| RUES | Faubourg Saint-Honore and Rivoli, e.g. |
