| FROUFROU | 1869 stage play by Ludovic Halevy and Henri Meilhac |
| NOE | Opera begun by composer Halevy and completed by Bizet |
| SEINE | Subject for Raoul Dufy and Henri Matisse |
| KENNEDY | Ludovic ?, journalist and broadcaster married to dancer Moira Shearer from 1950-2006 (7) |
| GIULY | Ludovic ..... , 2000-05 France and 2004-07 Barcelona midfielder (5) |
| VALBON | Ludovic ...... , 2004-07 France and 2003-07 Brive centre (6) |
| FAUVISM | Short-lived French artistic movement of the early 20th century whose principal figures were Andre Derain and Henri Matisse (7) |
| PIERRECURIE | Scientist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife and Henri Becquerel |
| MOIRA | &2 Ballerina star of the 1948 film The Red Shoes and wife of broadcaster Ludovic Kennedy [Two words] |
| LIBERAL | The British political party for which both Robin Day and Ludovic Kennedy stood for Parliament (7) |
| SYLVESTRE | Ludovic ......... , 2010-13 Blackpool midfielder now with Red Star in Paris (9) |
| SHEARER | Moira, ballet dancer who was Ludovic Kennedy's wife (7) |
| OHIOBORN | Like seven of the 12 presidents between 1869 and 1923 |
| RASPUTIN | The Siberian peasant (1869-1916), Grigori Efimovich, was known as whom (8) |
| VERLAINE | Paul _, French lyric poet associated with the Parnassians, Symbolists and Decadents; Fetes Galantes (1869) |
| RAILROAD | Transcontinental ___ (transportation system completed in 1869) |
| RICKSHAW | Form of passenger transport invented in Japan, c 1869 |
| CLEVEDON | Seaside town in North Somerset whose pier opened in 1869 |
| THEIDIOT | 1869 Dostoyevsky novel |
| MATISSE | Henri --, 1869-1954, French painter and sculptor (7) |
