| MALDOROR | Les Chants de -, 19th-century poetic novel by the Comte de Lautreamont |
| ANTHEM | Cameroon's "Chant de Ralliement," e.g. |
| ATHOS | The Comte de la Fere, familiarly |
| BALZAC | Honore de ---, 19th Century French novelist and playwright who wrote La Comedie Humaine (6) |
| MIRABEAU | Comte de ___, French revolutionary statesman instrumental in the National Assembly of 1789-91 (8) |
| XVIII | Louis called the "Comte de Provence" |
| EMIGRE | The Comte d'Artois was one for a change of regime |
| INTO | The second novel by The Girl On The Train author Paula Hawkins, _ The Water (4) |
| IMAGISM | Early 20th century poetic movement (7) |
| CHEESE | Food, such as Comte or Vacherin Mont d'Or, made in fruitieres from the milk of French Simmental cows; or, the idiomatic opposite of "chalk" (6) |
| DIARYOF | "The ___", novel by the Grossmith brothers featuring the character Charles Pooter (5,2,1,6) |
| TRIFFIDS | The Day of the -; novel by The Chrysalids and Chocky author John Wyndham (8) |
| TANCRED | Novel by the 19th-century PM, Disraeli (7) |
| CRANFORD | 19th-century episodic novel by the English writer Elizabeth Gaskell (8) |
| EIGER | "The _____ Sanction" (1975 movie of the 1972 novel by the same name) |
| YONNE | A department of North Central France, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comte region (5) |
| MOONSTONE | Name of the diamond in a 1868 novel by The Woman in White author Wilkie Collins; or, a gem in the feldspar group thought to bring good fortune (9) |
| POSITIVISM | Philosophical system originated by Auguste Comte (1798-1857) that rejects metaphysics and theology in favour of empirical experience (10) |
| ASSASSIN | The Blind ___; A 2000 novel by The Handmaid's Tale author Margaret Atwood (8) |
| GALORE | Whisky ___; novel by The Monarch of the Glen author Compton Mackenzie (6) |
