| XIV | Louis ___, the 'Sun King' |
| FRUIT | General word for one of the types of food grown by French gardener La Quintinie at Le Potager du Roi for the table of the Sun King, Louis XIV (5) |
| COUPERIN | Known as "le Grand", a composer and harpsichordist who served at the court of the Sun King, Louis XIV (8) |
| LOUISXIV | Depicted by George Blagden in the television drama Versailles, the Bourbon monarch known as the Sun King (5,1,1,1) |
| LULLY | Composer who founded French opera at the court of Louis XIV the Sun King (5) |
| ORLEANS | Duc d' -; title upon the death of his uncle Gaston of Philippe I who was the younger brother of the Sun King and bought Chateau de Saint- Cloud for 240,000 livres in 1658(7) |
| BOURBONS | Members, including Good King Henry and the Sun King, of a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty; fragrant pink perpetual roses from an island once named after said house; or, chocolate sandwich biscuit |
| LOUIS | French king aka The Sun King (5) |
| ROI | Louis XIV the Sun King, or, in French, 'le ... soleil' |
| VERSAILLES | BBC2 television drama based on the reign of the Sun King (10) |
| LEGAL | "It is _ because I wish it": Louis XIV, the Sun King (5) |
| AME | Spirit, to the sun king |
| NEWSPAPERMAN | Possibly the Sun King's disseminator of information? |
| LETATCESTMOI | The Sun King's infamous declaration |
| TANK | Take the Sun King's military vehicle |
| BOULLE | French cabinetmaker to the Sun King who perfected a form of brass and-tortoiseshell marquetry (6) |
| SEES | "The fool on the hill ___ the sun going down" |
| LOUISIANA | It's named for the Sun King |
| MANDYLOR | Louis ___ The Doorman actor who plays Nick Portokalos in 2002 rom-com My Big Fat Greek Wedding |
| IGOT | "...___ ___ the sun in the morning and the moon at night..." |
