| DEGAULLE | Charles ___, French president (2,6) |
| PERRAULT | Charles ___, French author of fairy tales Cinderella and The Sleeping Beauty (8) |
| MACRON | Emmanuel _; French president (6) |
| PATHE | Charles ___, French film pioneer who died in 1957 (5) |
| GOUNOD | Charles ___, French composer of 1864 opera Mireille (6) |
| BOYER | Charles _; French-born actor from the film Gaslight (5) |
| NZOGBIA | Charles ___, French footballer who played for Newcastle United, Wigan Athletic and Aston Villa in the Premier League, having begun his career at "23" |
| BAUDELAIRE | Charles ___, French poet whose works include Les Fleurs du mal |
| LECLERC | Charles ___, French general; brother-in-law of Napoleon Bonaparte (7) |
| BLONDIN | Charles _, French acrobat best known for walking a tightrope across Niagara Gorge in 1859 (7) |
| RENECOTY | French president before Charles de Gaulle |
| FRANCOIS | French president Mitterrand |
| COOLIDGE | Unenthusiastic, chilling cabinet barring French president (8) |
| POMPIDOU | French President between 1969 and 1974 (8) |
| EMMANUEL | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Macron, elected 2017 French President (8) |
| MACARONI | French president and writer eat a pasta dish (8) |
| HOLLANDE | French president (8) |
| MACMAHON | French president during the Third Republic |
| BRIGITTE | ____ Macron, former teacher born in 1953, married to the French president (8) |
| MACAROON | French president's eaten starter of andouilles; later duck and almondy cake (8) |
