| DELIBES | French composer of the 1870 ballet Coppelia (7) |
| VERLAINE | French writer of the 1870 collection of poems La Bonne Chanson (8) |
| LEODELIBES | French composer of the ballets Coppelia and Sylvia and the opera Lakme (3,7) |
| BERLIOZ | French composer of the 1863 grand opera The Trojans (7) |
| DURUFLE | French composer of the Parisian order seen around capital of France (7) |
| POULENC | French composer of the ballet Les biches (7) |
| MAURICE | French composer of the 1928 orchestral piece Bolero (7,5) |
| DEBUSSY | Claude, French composer of the symphonic sketches entitled La Mer (7) |
| NEMO | Captain of the submarine Nautilus in the 1870 Jules Verne novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
| EMS | German town associated with the 1870 dispatch from Bismarck that led to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War |
| HEATHENCHINEE | 'The -', 1870 work by Bret Harte also called Plain Language from Truthful James (7,6) |
| CAGEDLION | The -, 1870 novel by Charlotte M Yonge (5,4) |
| COPPELIA | 1870 ballet in which a mechanical dancing doll is a central character (8) |
| MAURICELAVER | French composer of the ballet Daphnis et Chloe (7,5) |
| PASDECHAT | Ballet leap: had a step arranged around start of Coppelia (3,2,4) |
| SAINTSAENS | French composer of The Carnival of the Animals, first published in 1922 (5-5) |
| RAVER | Maurice, French composer of the ballet Daphnis et Chloe (5) |
| SATIE | Erik, French composer of the 1917 ballet Parade (5) |
| RAVEL | French composer of the 1928 orchestral piece Bolero (7,5) |
| ERIKSATIE | French composer of the 1917 ballet Parade (4,5) |
