| SANSCULOTTE | A lower-class republican (literally "without breeches") in revolutionary France |
| AVALE | Grandparent's member of a "lower" class? Lower no more |
| FAGGOT | A lower class servant collected the firewood (6) |
| SANSSERIF | Literally, "without lines" |
| GUILLOTINE | Joseph-Ignace -- -, physician who gave his name to a means of execution in revolutionary France (10) |
| THERMIDOR | Back-to-front anchorite with back-to-front staff for a month in revolutionary France (9) |
| CHEF | Cook in revolutionary France (4) |
| AMATEUR | Layman, a friend, upper-class Republican (7) |
| FAVOURABLE | Pleasing story about a very old upper-class Republican (10) |
| SINEQUANON | Essential condition or requirement; Latin, literally, 'without which not' (4,3,3) |
| ARROWS | Middle class Republican argues for primitive weapons (6) |
| CODPIECE | Pouch in the crotch of men's breeches in the 15th century (8) |
| HOTHOUSE | You no longer must wear breeches in sweaty place |
| DIRECTCURRENT | Order bit of cash, hosting upper-class Republicans in DC (6,7) |
| CODPIECES | Pouches attached to men's breeches in the 15th and 16th centuries |
| ANCIEN | ___ Regime (term referring to pre-revolutionary France) |
| ANCIENREGIME | Pre Revolutionary France (6,6) |
| SERF | Member of the lower class, in a feudal system |
| PEASANTRY | Lower-class writer roped in as middle-class essay (9) |
| FEMUR | Drink lower-class female knocked back, showing a bit of leg (5) |
