| ORIFLAMME | Revolutionary France's memorial banner (9) |
| MCDORMAND | Fargo actress, Frances ... (9) |
| NOMADLAND | 2020 film by Chloe Zhao starring Frances McDormand (9) |
| THERMIDOR | 11th month of France's revolutionary calendar, born of heat in Greek (9) |
| OBSTACLES | Barriers disoriented boats near France's keys (9) |
| DEAUVILLE | Racecourse on France's Normandy coast (9) |
| PARISIANS | Residents of France's capital (9) |
| TUSCANSUN | Diane Lane film based on Frances Mayes' book, Under the... (6,3) |
| BURNAFTER | And 15 2008 Coen Brothers comedy-drama film starring George Clooney and Frances McDormand (4,5,7) |
| DESCHAMPS | The manager of France's national football team, Didier _ (9) |
| SHOULDERS | 98lb 40z carp at France's Abbey Lakes, died 2016 (*old rushes) (9) |
| CITYBYTHE | 2002 crime drama film starring Robert De Niro and Frances Mcdormand (4,2,3,3) |
| SARACREWE | Character in Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's novel 'A Little Princess' (4,5) |
| HINDRANCE | Drake's was golden. France's was endless impediment. (9) |
| POMPADOUR | From 1745 to 1751, the chief mistress of France's King Louis XV, Madame de _ (9) |
| EFFUSIONS | French are enshrining France's first union in literary outpourings (9) |
| FOREFRONT | Letters written about capital of Sweden and France's position of most prominence (9) |
| AGAMEMNON | France's refusal to follow sport am including for old king (9) |
| HERNANDEZ | Lucas and Theo ......... , brothers who both play as defenders in France's national team (9) |
| WOOLLYMAM | Drawings seen in France's Rouffignac Cave |
