| MARCHIONESS | Wife of marquis (11) |
| CORTES | He was awarded the title of Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca |
| SADIST | Take part of Marquis, a distinctly cruel person (6) |
| QUEENSBERRY | Marquis of ___ , boxing code written by John Graham Chambers and published in 1867 (11,5) |
| IMPRACTICAL | "The law which attempts a man's life is ____, unjust, inadmissible" (Marquis de Sade, on capital punishment) |
| PEER | Member of the House of Lords; noble titled duke, marquis, earl, Viscount or baron, or, one of the 12 paladins of Charlemagne's court (4) |
| DEBAUCHERY | A type of humour about new Beau with revolutionary type of writing one associates with the Marquis de Sade (10) |
| CONDORCET | Marquis de ___, 18th-century French philosopher and politician whose works include Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind |
| RULES | Marquis of - , boxing code written by John Graham Chambers and published in 1867 (11,5) |
| SADE | "Crimes of Passion" author Marquis de ___ |
| PROCRASTINATION | Subject of a definition by Don Marquis |
| SADISTS | Followers of the Marquis |
| YOURBODYIS | Start of a quote by Marquis de Sade |
| CECIL | Marquis of Salisbury family name |
| EARL | Subordinate of a marquis |
| DESADE | Marquis of erotic literature |
| HGMONTEREY | Relative of the Marquis and Montclair |
| MADE | Established the extremes of the Marquis de Sade (4) |
| MEHITABEL | The cat in her ninth life, the friend of Archy, the philosophical cockroach, in the US classic by Don Marquis (9) |
| ANTIQUARIANISM | Against joining eccentric marquis in a study of old artefacts |
