| PAPASMURF | Blue cartoon character whose French name is Le Grand Schtrou |
| SMURF | Blue cartoon character whose main enemy is Gargamel |
| LIGETI | Gyorgy ___, composer whose only opera is Le Grand Macabre (6) |
| SMURFS | Little blue cartoon characters whose adversary is named Gargamel |
| NATO | Defense org. whose French name is its English name in reverse |
| AACHEN | City and spa in Germany whose French name is Aix-la-Chapelle |
| HAUTELOIRE | The capital of this French department is Le Puy-en-Velay |
| EASTERNMOST | "Behind second" in French is "le plus a l'est"? (11) |
| SLEDDER | Blue cartoon character (5); Hot ___ (drag racers) (7); Christmas ___ (the 25th) (3) |
| EGRET | A heron whose French name, "aigrette", is used to describe one of said wader's plumes; or, a feathery crown or "clock" of a dandelion (5) |
| KOLN | German city whose French name gives us a perfume (4) |
| CHASSEUR | Sauce whose French name means 'hunter' (8) |
| LADSLOVE | Aromatic plant known as maid's passion, old man or southernwood and whose French name, garderobe, meaning "clothes-keeper", refers to its use as a moth repellent (4,4) |
| OBOE | Instrument whose French name, hautbois, meaning "high wood", reflects its pitch compared with related woodwinds including the bassoon (4) |
| SMURFY | Unusually cheerful, like certain blue cartoon characters |
| MARGE | Blue-haired cartoon character whose maiden name is Bouvier |
| POPEYE | Spinach-eating cartoon character whose 'goil' is Olive Oyl and whose arch enemy is Bluto |
| REN | Cartoon character whose last name is Hoek |
| SPONGEBOB | First name of the cartoon character whose best friend is Patrick Star |
| MRMAGOO | Cartoon character whose first name is Quincy |
