| EIFFEL | French engineer Gustave |
| EIFFE | Civil engineer Gustave with an eponymous tower |
| EYEFUL | Mention French engineer, an attractive individual (6) |
| EIFEL | French engineer: one loudly dismissed German region |
| TESLA | Collection returned to the French engineer (5) |
| SUEZCANAL | French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps planned this major work excavated between the Red Sea and the M |
| DELETE | Strike from French engineer going after permit (6) |
| BIKINI | Two-piece swimsuit designed by a French engineer (and named after an atoll) that made its debut in Paris on July 5, 1946 |
| SUEZ | Which great canal, completed in 1869, was built by the French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps, but acquired by the British six years later? (4) |
| COULOMB | Name, inscribed on the Eiffel Tower, of a French engineer who built a fort in Martinique before pioneering the concept of electric charge required to calculate electrical power (7) |
| GUSTAVEEIFFEL | French engineer who designed a landmark tower as the entrance to the 1889 World's Fair in Paris (7,6) |
| DURESS | Coercion of the French engineers on a ship (6) |
| FLAUBERT | Gustave --, 1821-80, French novelist (8) |
| DORE | French painter Gustave |
| LEROUGE | French writer Gustave with a colorful surname |
| CHARPENTIER | Gustave -, French composer of 1900 opera Louise |
| COURBET | Gustave _, artist who led the Realist movement in 19th century French painting (7) |
| MADAME | --- Bovary, debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert (6) |
| EMMABOVARY | Heroine created by French writer Gustave Flaubert (4,6) |
| LOUISE | Title heroine of a Gustave Charpentier opera |
