| CODEOFHAMMURABI | Babylonian king's law etched onto an ancient basalt stele at the Louvre in Paris: 3 wds. |
| PYRAMID | Pei's controversial glass structure at the Louvre in Paris |
| THEFRENCHOPEN | Grand Slam tennis tournament in Paris: 3 wds. |
| CODOFHAMMURABI | Babylonian king's fish dish? |
| PEI | I.M. ___ Pritzker Prize-winning architect behind the Louvre in Paris who passed away at the age of 102 in 2019 |
| VENUSDEMILO | Ancient Greek statue believed to depict Aphrodite, housed in the Louvre in Paris (5,2,4) |
| IMPEI | Chinese-born architect whose works include the pyramid at the Musee du Louvre in Paris (1,1,3) |
| TUILERIES | Formal gardens next to the Louvre in Paris (9) |
| TELETUBBY | Po or similar container in cases for the Louvre, in reserve (9) |
| LEONARDO | Lira da braccio-playing military engineer, painter and polymath whose Renaissance portrait of Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of a Florentine merchant, was famously stolen from the Louvre in 1911, by hand |
| TIARA | Either of two headpieces stolen from the Louvre in 2025, e.g. |
| OFFSET | Printing method in which the impression is made onto an intermediate surface which transfers it to the paper |
| ROSETTASTONE | Stele carrying a decree from 196 BCE, the first Ancient Egyptian bilingual text found in modern times (7,5) |
| HAMMURABI | Babylonian king who instituted one of the earliest surviving codes of law in recorded history (9) |
| RESEAL | Art around the Louvre in authentic frame is secure again (6) |
| MONALISA | Painting stolen from the Louvre in 1911 |
| LAGIACONDA | Painting stolen from The Louvre in August 1911 |
| ONRAMP | Place where drivers merge onto an interstate formed by anagramming the first six letters of "panromantic": 2 wds. |
| CANCAN | Is able to repeat performance in Paris (3-3) |
| RUE | Feel sorry in a way, while in Paris (3) |
