| LESSIX | Group of French composers including Georges Auric, Louis Durey and Francis Poulenc (3,3) |
| SATINET | Light material from French composer including new tango |
| OBOESONATA | Francis Poulenc composition dedicated to the memory of Sergei Prokofiev, for one |
| AURIC | Member of the group of French composers known as 'Les Six' (5) |
| VIENNA | Once home to composers including Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and the Strauss family, the capital of Austria (6) |
| FAUVES | Members of a group of French painters that included Matisse, Vlaminck and Derain |
| ASHTON | Dancer who choreographed ballets to the music of composers including William Walton, Constant Lambert, Edward Elgar and Frederic Chopin (6) |
| MAYORS | Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles and Francis X. Suarez of Miami, e.g. |
| AMBUSH | Suddenly attack group of French submarines going west (6) |
| ENCORE | Bonus performance of piece from Poulenc or Enesco (6) |
| HARVEY | Physician to James I, Charles I and Francis Bacon whose landmark book De Motu Cordis published in 1628 describes his discovery of the human blood circulation system (6) |
| DUBOIS | Name, old, is name of French composer (6) |
| FRANCK | Open sound of French composer (6) |
| COVERT | Concealed part of Poulenc overture |
| ODDJOB | Henchman to Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film and novel Goldfinger |
| TITIAN | "The Madonna with Saints Aloysius and Francis" painter |
| BACONS | Kevin and Francis |
| LESBIC | Gay Poulenc ballet males avoided |
| HALEVY | French composer's verse penned by rock-and-roll pioneer |
| SMERSH | Soviet agency for whom Auric Goldfinger is treasurer in the James Bond films (6) |
