| CAHIER | French word for a notebook (6) |
| CARNET | French word for a notebook; a booklet of tickets/transport coupons; or, a customs permit authorising a motorist to cross a certain frontier (6) |
| SPIRAL | Shape of a winding staircase, a coiled device for binding a notebook or the helical structure of DNA (6) |
| TABLET | The first sailor allowed a notebook (6) |
| LAPTOP | Small portable computer that manufacturers call a notebook |
| SCRATCHPAD | Mainly North American name for a notebook |
| DRAGEE | French word for a sugared almond, a chocolate chip, a medicated sweet or a silvered candy bead for a cake (6) |
| CHATON | French word for a catkin or a kitten; the bezel or collet of a finger-ring; the gem or stone in such a setting; or, a jewel with a reflective foil backing (6) |
| CHAISE | French word for a seat, thus a transportational couch in the form of a carriage; or, a sofa such as a long or "longue" example on which to recline in the French style (6) |
| RUELLE | French word for a narrow lane or alley that also refers to a gap between a bed and the side of a bedchamber; or, this room, formerly as the place of reception of elegant French ladies (6) |
| FRAISE | French word for a strawberry that is also eau-de-vie distilled from such; a 16th-century neck ruff; a horizontal palisade; or, a horological tool (6) |
| PIGEON | Derived from a French word for a young dove, the name of a bird related to the aforesaid culver, trained by a peristerophilist (6) |
| SCRIBBLER | Informal word for a hack, journo, pen-pusher or other writer; part of a wool-carding machine; or, Canadian dialect for a jotter or a notebook (9) |
| ENTREE | French word for a dish served between the main courses of a formal dinner, or according to Mrs Beeton, a side dish served with the first course (6) |
| CLICHE | French word for a stereotype printing plate cast from a mould, hence a stereotyped phrase (6) |
| SEANCE | Which French word for a 'sitting' is applied to a meeting to contact the dead through a medium? (6) |
| COULIS | French word for a thin puree of raspberries or other soft fruit as a sauce for cheesecake, ice cream, mousse or other pudding (6) |
| PUTOIS | French word for a polecat that also refers to its fur; or, a brush made of said hair, for decorating pottery (6) |
| CERISE | French word for a cherry, thus for a carmine- or crimson-like colour (6) |
| CANARD | French word for a duck, which also refers to a false rumour or a hoax (6) |
