| HONORE | French novelist ___ de Balzac |
| ECA | Portuguese novelist ___ de Queiroz |
| RUIN | 'Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ___": de Balzac (4) |
| HONOREDE | French novelist ___ Balzac |
| ERONOH | -- de Balzac |
| LAWSARESPIDER | Start of an Honore de Balzac observation |
| LOVE | 'Poetry of the senses,' per Honore de Balzac |
| EUGENIE | 1833 novel by Honore de Balzac (7,7) |
| GRANDET | 1833 novel by Honore de Balzac (7,7) |
| MUSEES | "Maison de Balzac," et al. |
| WILDASSSSKIN | "The ... ... ...", Honore de Balzac novel whose central character is Raphael (4,4,4) |
| THELILYOF | 1835 novel by Honore de Balzac (3,4,2,3,6) |
| LABOURSE | Short story by Honore de Balzac, anglicised as The Purse |
| UNEMOTIONAL | "Musicians are seldom ____; a woman who could sing like that must know how to love indeed" (Honore de Balzac) |
| FRENCHLIT | Class whose topics might stretch from Honore de Balzac to Houellebecq |
| COUSINBETTE | 1998 film starring Jessica Lange in the title role, based on a Honore de Balzac novel (6,5) |
| ANATOLE | French novelist ___ France |
| EMILE | French novelist, ___ Zola |
| ABBE | French novelist___ Prevost |
| CAMUS | Extract from Balzac amuses another French writer (5) |
