| FEYDEAU | Georges, French farceur who authored La Dame de Chez Maxim (7) |
| TRAVERS | Farceur fails to close a Scottish theatre (7) |
| BEATRIX | 21, the writer, an unconventional farceur? (7) |
| EDITRIX | Newspaper worker recalled time with farceur (7) |
| BRIXHAM | Farceur with his initial, poor actor (7) |
| CHORIZO | Spicy sausage mostly unpleasant task, ultimately seeing ennui chez Leo (7) |
| THEMETS | They play chez Shea |
| FER | La Dame de ___ (nickname for the Eiffel Tower) |
| BOIELDIEU | French composer (1775-1834) of the operas Le Calife de Baghdad and La Dame Blanche |
| VERDI | Giuseppe -; composer who based his opera La Traviata on Alexandre Dumas fils's novel and play La Dame aux Camelias (5) |
| OPERACOMIQUE | La Dame Blanche by Boieldieu or Fra Diavolo by Auber, eg (5,7) |
| DUMAS | Alexandre, French author of La Dame aux camelias (5) |
| BERNHARDT | Depicted in posters by Alphonse Mucha, actress who portrayed Marguerite in a theatrical version of La Dame aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas fils (9) |
| FILS | Alexandre Dumas ___ (one way to refer to the author of "La Dame aux Camelias") |
| LATRAVIATA | Three-act opera by Verdi based on the novel "La dame aux camelias" (2,8) |
| AUX | Dumas's "La Dame ___ Camelias" |
| MATRIX | Dull old farceur showing grid of data (6) |
| GRANDPRIX | High-octane event in which farceur falls under A£1,000 piano (5,4) |
| GRANDCRUX | High-octane event in which farceur falls under - 1,000 piano (5,4) |
| EXECUTRIX | She carries out will of all but top farceur (9) |
