| LEK | The French king's currency (3) |
| VERSAILLES | Capital of the Yvelines department in northern France, whose palace was the seat of the French kings from 1682 to 1789 (10) |
| LARK | The French kings frolic (4) |
| MAZARIN | Jules --, cardinal who served as chief minister to the French kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV (7) |
| ROI | The French king in Troilus and Cressida? (3) |
| BURGLARY | In playing rugby, the French king's causing offence (8) |
| DIX | Number of French kings named Charles |
| LOUISQUATORZE | Line agreed by the French 20 or, facetiously, the French king (5,8) |
| LOUIS | Name of the French king executed in 1792 during the French revolution (5) |
| DESKTOP | Working area of the French king, the best |
| REIMS | Unofficial capital of the Champagne wine-growing region in France, site of the baptism of Clovis and the traditional coronation place of French kings (5) |
| LARIAT | The French king in Cork gets a time for hanging around the horses (6) |
| OCTROI | Just one month in the year the French king could raise this tax (6) |
| BOURBONS | Members of a European royal family descended from the grandson of the French king Louis IX (8) |
| HECKLER | Hell, the French king is someone who interrupts the speaker (7) |
| SUNKING | By what other name is the French King Louis XIV also known? (3,4) |
| OSTLER | The French king standing by east German stable worker in the past (6) |
| AGAMEMNON | Sport in the morning gets refusal from the French king (9) |
| CLARITY | The French king filling Paris, perhaps, with brightness (7) |
| CRAWLER | Sycophant offers crop to the French king (7) |
