| RESNAIS | Surname of the French New Wave film director whose works include Last Year at Marienbad and Hiroshima mon amour |
| ROHMER | Film-maker of the French New Wave noted for his Six Moral Tales series (6) |
| FRANCOISTRUFFAUT | French New Wave film director whose works include Jules et Jim and Le Dernier Metro |
| AGNESVARDA | So-called mother of the French New Wave |
| FRANCOIS | French New Wave film director whose works include Jules et Jim (8,8) |
| TRUFFAUT | French New Wave film director whose works include Jules et Jim (8,8) |
| JEANLUCGODARD | French New Wave film director whose works include Breathless (4-3,6) |
| ALAINRESNAIS | French director whose films include Hiroshima mon amour and Last Year at Marienbad |
| GODARD | Jean-luc ___ (b 1930), a French New Wave film director (6) |
| MOREAU | Jeanne, French actress born in 1928 noted for her roles in French New Wave films of the 1960s (6) |
| MANET | Surname of the French painter whose best-known works include Absinthe Drinker and Bar at the Folies-Bergere (5) |
| NIM | Matchsticks game played in "Last Year at Marienbad" |
| DEGAS | Surname of the French impressionist painter whose works include studies of ballet, horses and jockeys (5) |
| CLEO | ___ From 5 to 7 (seminal French New Wave film directed by Agnes Varda) |
| AMOUR | "Hiroshima mon ___" (classic French New Wave film) |
| ROBESPIERRE | Surname of the French lawyer and agitator influential in bringing about the French Revolution (11) |
| INGRES | Surname of the French painter of such works as Odalisque and La Source (6) |
| MONTGOLFIER | Surname of the French inventor brothers who built and ascended in the first piloted hot-air balloon (11) |
| LUMIERE | Surname of the French brothers who invented a cinematograph and a process of colour photography |
| LALANDE | Surname of the French astronomer who, in his Histoire Celeste, catalogued the positions of about 50,000 stars (7) |
