| DAUMIER | Honore, French painter whose works include 1863's The Laundress (7) |
| BALZAC | Honore, French author of Eugenie Grandet (6) |
| NONIRON | What the laundress who took up golf called a wood? (7) |
| GREUZE | Portraitist and genre painter whose works include The Lazy Boy, Broken Eggs, The Guitarist and The Laundress (6) |
| UNDRESS | Laundress leaving behind Los Angeles strip (7) |
| EUGENIE | 1833 novel by Honore de Balzac (7,7) |
| GRANDET | 1833 novel by Honore de Balzac (7,7) |
| STARCH | It makes things hard for the laundress |
| IRONEDOUT | Solved by the laundress? (6,3) |
| FRAGONARD | Jean-Honore, painter whose works include 1773's A Shaded Avenue (9) |
| ENGLISHMUSTARD | Laundress might need to shift gloopy yellow stuff (7,7) |
| PEGGEDOUT | How the weary laundress established boundaries? (6,3) |
| URFE | Honore d'-; author whose 17th-century pastoral L'Astree is considered the first French novel (4) |
| WILDASSSSKIN | "The ... ... ...", Honore de Balzac novel whose central character is Raphael (4,4,4) |
| MANET | Exhibitor at 1863's Salon des Refuses |
| WASHER | Laundress used to be some woman (6) |
| WASHERWOMAN | Laundress used to be lady's domestic help |
| ULNA | Injured laundress drops garment to show bone |
| SVENGALI | Laundress finally leaving wicked hypnotist (8) |
| NYLONS | Negligent young laundress overlooked nastily stained tops and tights (6) |
