| CHASSE | Gliding step in dancing, especially ballet, in which the same foot always leads; French, 'to chase' (6) |
| PAS | Step in dancing, especially ballet |
| MYFOOT | Goes around mysteriously and leads French occupation of Tunisia? No Way! (2,4) |
| CHASSEING | Performing a gliding step in dancing |
| ENDEAVOUR | Maybe Foot always spoke for Labour (9) |
| METAL | Possibly lead French man and the others (5) |
| CLEARCOLE | Rejecting lead, French school supports campaign for lead-free air? That's stuff glossed over |
| CHOREOGRAPHY | Art of composing dances, especially ballets (12) |
| GLISSADE | A gliding step in ballet, in which one foot slides forwards, sideways or backwards (8) |
| SWAN | Tchaikovsky's romantic ballet, in which the leading ballerina gets to dance the twin roles of Odette |
| PLIE | Movement in ballet in which the knees are bent while the back remains straight (4) |
| PASDECHAT | 'Step of a cat' in ballet, in which leaping dancers raise each foot in turn to the opposite knee (3,2,4) |
| DEVELOPPE | Movement in ballet in which one leg is drawn up to the knee of the other, then extended to the front, side or back (9) |
| ARABESQUE | Classical position in ballet in which the dancer has one leg raised behind and both arms stretched out (9) |
| ENTRECHAT | Leap in ballet in which the dancer crosses their feet (9) |
| TAUTONYM | A scientific name in which the same word is used for both genus and species; to my aunt (anag.) |
| REPERTORYTHEATRE | System of play production in which the same company performs plays in rotation (9,7) |
| ECARTE | Body position in ballet in which an arm and leg are extended at the side of the body (6) |
| SWANLAKE | Tchaikovsky ballet in which the central character is Odette (4,4) |
| GLIDE | Portamento in music; a smooth graceful step in dancing the waltz; or, a semivowel in phonetics (5) |
