| FRENCHLIT | Class whose topics might stretch from Honore de Balzac to Houellebecq |
| APBIO | H.S. class whose topics include heredity |
| HOTLY | How a controversial topic might be debated |
| WILDASSSSKIN | "The ... ... ...", Honore de Balzac novel whose central character is Raphael (4,4,4) |
| UNEMOTIONAL | "Musicians are seldom ____; a woman who could sing like that must know how to love indeed" (Honore de Balzac) |
| LAWSARESPIDER | Start of an Honore de Balzac observation |
| LOVE | 'Poetry of the senses,' per Honore de Balzac |
| THELILYOF | 1835 novel by Honore de Balzac (3,4,2,3,6) |
| LABOURSE | Short story by Honore de Balzac, anglicised as The Purse |
| EUGENIE | 1833 novel by Honore de Balzac (7,7) |
| GRANDET | 1833 novel by Honore de Balzac (7,7) |
| COUSINBETTE | 1998 film starring Jessica Lange in the title role, based on a Honore de Balzac novel (6,5) |
| FREELOADER | Person whose weekend stay on your couch might stretch to several months long |
| BALZAC | Honore de -, the French novelist whose works include La Cousine Bette, Le Cure De Tours and Le Pere Goriot (6) |
| ALPHABET | New path able to stretch from A to Z? (8) |
| RAINDELAY | *It might stretch a seventh-inning stretch |
| HOMEEC | H.S. class whose students might cook |
| ESL | Class whose students might have trouble with silent letters: abbr. |
| ALGEBRA | Class whose roster might be a long list of x lovers? |
| GORIOT | *HonorE de Balzac's "Le PEre ___" |
