| CAREME | Marie-Antoine -, French chef regarded as the founder of haute cuisine who died in 1833 |
| NIEPCE | Joseph Nicephore, French chemist and photographic pioneer who died in 1833 (6) |
| ANNECY | Capital of the French department of Haute Savoie |
| EDMUNDKEAN | English actor noted for his Shakespearean roles who died in 1833 (6,4) |
| WATTEAU | Jean Antoine, French painter of fetes galantes who died in 1721 (7) |
| WILBERFORCE | William ___, Kingston upon Hull-born politician and slave trade abolitionist who died in 1833 (11) |
| BOUGAINVILLE | Louis Antoine, French navigator after whom an island of Papua New Guinea in the Solomon Islands is named (12) |
| KEAN | Edmund, English tragic actor who died in 1833 (4) |
| LIMOGES | Capital of the French department of Haute-Vienne, formerly noted for enamel work and porcelain |
| TOULOUSE | With culinary specialities including sausages and cassoulet, the capital of Haute-Garonne, known as the "Pink City" (8) |
| AUVERGNE | Region of S. central France which includes the department of Haute-Loire (8) |
| PASSTHEAUX | Comment from a would-be car DJ formed by the opposite of "fail" + an anagram of "haute" + X: 3 wds. |
| LAVOISIER | Antoine, French chemist who disproved the phlogiston theory (9) |
| CAPARISON | Around the home of haute couture they (French) dress, richly (9) |
| FRENCHDRESSING | Saucy embellishment of haute couture? (6,8) |
| DRESSAGE | From "training", the equestrian art or discipline of haute ecole (8) |
| FASHIONISTA | A designer of haute couture |
| NINA | Ricci of haute couture |
| DIOR | Christian of haute-couture |
| CHARLOTTERUSSE | Marie-Antoine Careme's culinary creation of lady's fingers encasing custard and Bavarian cream - not just fit for a powerful tsar, but for a pomaceous-pudding-inspiring British queen who was also the |
