| MARQUISDESADE | Cruel and debauched French writer and soldier (7,2,4) |
| SIEGFRIED | English war poet, author and soldier, _ Sassoon (9) |
| LAWRENCE | Archaeologist, author, and soldier who died in a motorcycle crash in 1935 (8,2,6) |
| OFARABIA | Archaeologist, author, and soldier who died in a motorcycle crash in 1935 (8,2,6) |
| FALSTAFF | Fat, jolly and debauched Shakespearean (8) |
| FAST | Society that's outwardly flabby and debauched (4) |
| CHATEAUBRIAND | Steak variety, named after a French writer and diplomat (13) |
| WALTERRALEIGH | English explorer and soldier, favourite of Elizabeth I (6,7) |
| STAFFSERGEANT | Pole, Frenchman, colonist and soldier |
| COCTEAU | French writer and filmA maker, d. 1963 (7) |
| CYRANO | Savinien -- de Bergerac, 1619-55, French writer and dramatist (6) |
| VOLTAIRE | French writer and philosopher (1694 1778) |
| SARTRE | Jean-Paul -, French writer and philosopher |
| CYRANODEBERGERAC | French writer and dramatist, fictionalised in an 1897 play by Edmond Rostand |
| HELOISE | French writer and abbess, the lover of Peter Abelard (7) |
| TAVERNER | Jack embraces French writer and composer (8) |
| RIVIERE | Jacques ?, French writer and critic; author of 1912 collection Etudes |
| SIMONE | French writer and philosopher, ... de Beauvoir |
| MARCEL | ___ Pagnol, French writer and film-maker (6) |
| GENETICALLY | French writer and partner include one caught via DNA |
