| ROUGETDE | Claude Joseph ?, composer of French national anthem La Marseillaise |
| ROUGETDELISLE | Claude Joseph ?, composer of French national anthem La Marseillaise |
| LISLE | Claude Joseph ?, composer of French national anthem La Marseillaise (6,2,5) |
| GOSSEC | Francois-Joseph ?, composer of 1773 opera Sabinus |
| MARSEILLAISE | French national anthem, composed in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (12) |
| HAITIAN | Like the national anthem "La Dessalinienne" |
| ORLEANS | Maid of ___ , nickname of French national heroine Joan of Arc (7) |
| FRENCHCUSTOM | Singing La Marseillaise at rugby matches next to the Germans is force of habit (6,6) |
| ENFANTS | Second word of "La Marseillaise" |
| TES | "Combats avec ___ defenseurs!" (line from "La Marseillaise") |
| MALTA | Country that La Marseillaise presents in revolution |
| AVEC | "Combats ___ tes defenseurs!" ("La Marseillaise" line) |
| NATIONALANTHEM | Anne Hamilton at odds with La Marseillaise? (8,6) |
| RAMEAU | Jean-Philippe ___, Baroque composer and music theorist who replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera |
| DELIBES | Composer of French stories about British (7) |
| REVOLUTION | Cycling event that's part of French national identity |
| ARC | Joan of --, French national heroine burnt at the stake in 1431 (3) |
| RUSSELL | Swishing sound after the end of French national 25Ac star (4,7) |
| FINN | Swishing sound after the end of French national 25Ac star (4,7) |
| ANTHEM | "La Marseillaise," e.g. |
