| SIMENON | Creator of Maigret |
| GEORGES | Author of detective novels featuring Inspector Maigret (7,7) |
| RAGTIME | Maigret playing Joplin's sort of music (7) |
| RETREAD | Maigret readership includes one brought out of retirement (7) |
| GEORGESSIMENON | Belgian creator of the detective Jules Maigret |
| SURETE | Parisian equivalent of Scotland Yard in the Maigret stories (6) |
| MICHAELGAMBON | Monsieur, macho Belgian wrestling Maigret on TV (7,6) |
| MON | My, to Maigret |
| ROWANATKINSON | Went from Mr Bean to Maigret (5,8) |
| INSPECTOR | Script one translated for Maigret? (9) |
| INSP | Clouseau or Maigret: Abbr. |
| ETHER | Old number from Maigret there |
| GENDARME | Maigret colleague |
| PAGETURNER | Thriller has Maigret regularly chasing priest with revolver |
| EIFFELTOWER | 1950 film starring Charles Laughton as Inspector Maigret (3,3,2,3,6,5) |
| THEMAN | 1950 film starring Charles Laughton as Inspector Maigret (3,3,2,3,6,5) |
| ONTHE | 1950 film starring Charles Laughton as Inspector Maigret (3,3,2,3,6,5) |
| DICKCISSEL | For Maigret, the perverted detectives must flip a diminutive singer |
| PIPE | Just beat on direction for one smoked by Maigret (4) |
| MAIGRETSPICKPOCKET | 1967 Georges Simenon novel originally published as Le Voleur de Maigret |
