| VOLTAIRE | Pseudonym of French writer Francois-Marie Arouet, whose works included the satire Candide (8) |
| PANGLOSS | 'Professor of metaphysico-theologocosmolo-nigology' who tutors the title character of the 1759 satire Candide by French writer Voltaire (8) |
| STENDHAL | Pen name of French writer Marie-Henri Beyle, whose novels included Le Rouge Et Le Noir (8) |
| DESCRIBE | Put into words what you think of French writer (8) |
| RACINESS | Rabelaisian quality of French writer's son |
| GARGANTUA | Father of Pantagruel in the novels of 16th-century French author Francois Rabelais (9) |
| ERASMUS | What pseudonym did a professor of Divinity and Greek at Cambridge use when he published the satire The Praise of Folly (1509) |
| LAMPOON | The French member has nothing on in the satire |
| BLONDIN | Pseudonym of French acrobat Jean-Francois Gravelet (1824-97), known for crossing Niagara Falls on a tightrope in 1859 (7,7) |
| CHARLES | Pseudonym of French acrobat Jean-Francois Gravelet (1824-97), known for crossing Niagara Falls on a tightrope in 1859 (7,7) |
| SPOOF | Dandies return and get a ring about the satire (5) |
| JUVENAL | Roman poet who wrote a collection of poems known as the Satires (7) |
| ROBESPIERRE | Maximilien Francois Marie Isidore de --, French revolutionary leader (11) |
| VOLTAIREAN | Some potential space to inscribe one name of French writer |
| INDEPENDENCE | Standing alone at home of French writer, cold, in valley |
| DEPENDENT | Subject of French writer approaching depression (9) |
| SUMAC | Tree or shrub; reverse of French writer |
| COLETTE | Monaco letterhead betrays presence of French writer |
| SAND | George, pen name of French writer Amandine Dupin (4) |
| MADAME | --- Bovary, debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert (6) |
