| PETANQUE | Form of the game boules that originated in Provence, France |
| FARANDOLE | Lively dance in 6/8 time that originated in Provence (9) |
| BLINDMANSBLUFF | Form of the game of tag |
| DWAYNE | Which West Indian legendary all-rounder and multiple World Cup winner recently announced his retirement from all forms of the game? (6) |
| TIAN | An earthenware dish from Provence, France, or the food cooked in it (4) |
| JACK | The bowls equivalent of the “cochonnet” in boules |
| JEU | French "game", of say boules involving strategic cunning, de paume "of tennis", d'esprit "spirited, witty", vieux "old" or even de mots "of words, punning" (3) |
| COB | Word for something rounded or sturdy, such as a boule of bread, core of an ear of corn, hazelnut, lump of coal or short-legged type of horse (3) |
| AIX | __-en-Provence, France |
| SOLUBLE | Learner in playing boules describing a good crossword? (7) |
| GUYDEMAUPASSANT | Author of the short story Boule de Suif (suet dumpling) |
| BLOUSE | Playing boules in female attire |
| LOAF | Known in French as "miche" and kneaded into shapes including boule, pave, bloomer, cob, split tin or plait, a standard quantity of baked bread (4) |
| ABSOLUTE | Like some rulers when playing at boules (8) |
| SABULOSE | Such as boules ground? |
| CHAD | Country where porridges such as boule are staple dishes |
| BREADBIN | Vessel also called a crock for sourdough, pain de campagne, pave, boule, a split tin or granary loaf (5,3) |
| BLE | Boule ingredient |
| CATHAR | Member of a Christian sect of the 12th and 13th centuries in Provence who believed the material worl |
| CEZANNE | French artist identified with postImpressionism and also as a forerunner of Cubism whose paintings include House in Provence, The Card Players, The Basket of Apples and Bathers (7) |
