| SALLYLINDSAY | Star of The Madame Blanc Mysteries (5,7) |
| LINDSAY | Sally _, playing the lead in The Madame Blanc Mysteries (7) |
| SALLY | Jean White in The Madame Blanc Mysteries (5,7) |
| MYSTERIES | Channel 5 drama with Sally Lindsay, The Madame Blanc ___ (9) |
| SARGENT | Artist who, following the Madame X scandal, retreated to Broadway where he painted girls Dolly and Polly lighting lanterns in his Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose (7) |
| CHAMONIX | Short name for the resort on the north side of Mont Blanc that hosted the first Winter Olympics and is the starting point of the Haute Route ski touring trail ending in Zermatt (8) |
| TOMB | The dead centre of the top of Mont Blanc summits (4) |
| BEURRE | Word linking with "petit" for the name of a French biscuit or "blanc" for a variety of emulsified sauce for seafood (6) |
| SANCERRE | Medieval hilltop village in a canton of the same name along the Loire River, noted for sauvignon blanc wine (8) |
| MEGEVE | Village in the Haute-Savoie department near Mont Blanc that was brought to prominence as a ski resort by the Rothschilds in the 1920s (6) |
| MEL | Blanc who was the voice of both Tweety and Sylvester |
| VOUVRAY | One of the Chenin blanc wines (7) |
| FRENCHFOREIGNLEGION | Wearers of the kepi blanc (6,7,6) |
| AOSTA | - Valley; smallest, least populous region of Italy, site of Mont Blanc (5) |
| ITALIAN | Like part of Mont Blanc -- south of it, a climber almost falls (7) |
| VOICECAST | Mel Blanc was always part of the what on a cartoon series?: 2 wds. |
| MATT | ___ Le Blanc, US actor and TV presenter whose second series at the helm of 30D has just finished airing on BBC Two (pictured) (4) |
| SAUVIGNON | --- Blanc, a white grape grown in the Bordeaux and Loire regions of France, New Zealand, and elsewhere (9) |
| HAKE | A deep-sea member of the cod family, known in France as 'saumon blanc' (4) |
| AIGUILLE | The ____ du Midi is a mountain near Mont Blanc, with a cable car service to the summit |
