| GENET | Jean --, French novelist and dramatist (5) |
| GIRAUDOUX | Jean, French novelist and dramatist whose plays include The Madwoman of Chaillot (9) |
| COCTEAU | Jean -, French novelist and director (7) |
| DUMAS | Alexandre ---, French novelist and dramatist whose works include The Three Musketeers (5) |
| JEANGENET | French novelist and dramatist who wrote about the criminal underworld (4,5) |
| VICTORHUGO | French novelist and dramatist who wrote Les Misérables |
| ALEXANDRE | --- Dumas, French novelist and dramatist whose works included The Three Musketeers (9) |
| LESAGE | French novelist and dramatist who wrote the picaresque novel Gil Blas (6) |
| ADELE | ___ Daminois, French novelist and playwright (5) |
| EMILE | _ Zola, French novelist and journalist renowned tor his 1898 J'accuse...! newspaper letter (5) |
| HAITI | The father of the French novelist and playwright Alexandre Dumas was born in which present-day country? (5) |
| GOGOL | Nikolai ---, 19th Century Russian novelist and dramatist (5) |
| CAPEK | Karel -, Czech novelist and dramatist |
| COROT | Jean, French landscape and portrait painter who died in 1875 (5) |
| ALESI | Jean ....., French driver who competed in F1 1989-2001 (5) |
| SARTRE | Jean-Paul ___, French philosopher, novelist and dramatist whose works include Being and Nothingness and Nausea |
| EMILEZOLA | French novelist and critic noted for Germinal (5,4) |
| SORBITOL | Sweetener gets French novelist and brothers back together (8) |
| SANDPIPER | French novelist and musician got in a knot |
| GARY | Romain --, 1914-80, French novelist and wartime aviator (4) |
