| GENETICALLY | French writer and partner include one caught via DNA |
| BADDIEL | David _, comedian and author whose comedy partners include Frank Skinner and Rob Newman (7) |
| INHERITS | Gets via DNA, say |
| CHOLERA | Bacterial disease often caught via polluted water (7) |
| TROUTLING | A fry of a freshwater fish with a rainbow species, sometimes caught via a method of "tickling" (9) |
| BANKS | Morwenna -, comedienne, writer and partner of David Baddiel (5) |
| MARQUISDESADE | Cruel and debauched French writer and soldier (7,2,4) |
| JEANPAULSARTRE | French writer and philosopher; one of only two people to turn down a Nobel Prize |
| COCTEAU | French writer and filmA maker, d. 1963 (7) |
| CYRANO | Savinien -- de Bergerac, 1619-55, French writer and dramatist (6) |
| VOLTAIRE | French writer and philosopher (1694 1778) |
| SARTRE | Jean-Paul -, French writer and philosopher |
| CYRANODEBERGERAC | French writer and dramatist, fictionalised in an 1897 play by Edmond Rostand |
| HELOISE | French writer and abbess, the lover of Peter Abelard (7) |
| TAVERNER | Jack embraces French writer and composer (8) |
| RIVIERE | Jacques ?, French writer and critic; author of 1912 collection Etudes |
| SIMONE | French writer and philosopher, ... de Beauvoir |
| CHATEAUBRIAND | Steak variety, named after a French writer and diplomat (13) |
| MARCEL | ___ Pagnol, French writer and film-maker (6) |
| BRUNHOFF | Jean de _, French writer and illustrator who created Babar the Elephant (8) |
