| ROANNE | Commune in Loire, France, housing the Musee des Beaux-Arts et d'Archeologie Joseph-Dechelette |
| WHAUDEN | "Musee des Beaux Arts" poet |
| ROREM | Ned who won the 2004 Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres |
| ARTS | "Musee des Beaux ___" (W. H. Auden poem) |
| LOUVRE | National museum and art gallery of France, housing exhibits including the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo (6) |
| LEHAVRE | Port in Seine-Maritime, France, housing the Musee d'art moderne Andre Malraux |
| ORIOLE | Colourful old world bird finds love in Loire novel (6) |
| ANGERS | Annoys city in Loire? (6) |
| LOITER | Dawdle, having time, in Loire, touring (6) |
| TOURS | Town in lndre-et-Loire, France, housing a Gothic cathedral (5) |
| SALON | Former official art exhibition of the French Academy of Fine Arts (Academie des Beaux-Arts) in Paris (5) |
| THESALON | The official art exhibition of the Academie des Beaux-arts in Paris, from 1667 (3,5) |
| OYONNAX | Commune in Ain, France, housing the Museum of Combs and Plastics (7) |
| SAINTNAZAIRE | Town in Loire-Atlantique, northwest France, on the right bank of the Loire River estuary (5-7) |
| ECOLE | France's ___ des Beaux-Arts |
| CLUNY | Town in Saone-et-Loire, France that grew up around a 10th Century abbey (5) |
| MUSEE | ___ des Beaux-Arts de Montreal |
| CHARTRES | Market town in Eure-et-Loir, France, housing a Gothic cathedral (8) |
| BEAUX | Musee des ___-arts de Montreal |
| STES | Jeanne d'Arc et d'autres: Abbr. |
