| COCTEAU | Author of the novel "Les Enfants Terribles" |
| JEANCOCTEAU | French writer, designer and film director whose works include the novel Les Enfants terrible |
| HUGO | Victor ___, author of the novels Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (4) |
| JEAN | French author whose best-known works are the 1929 novel Les Enfants terribles and the 1934 play La Machine infernale (4,7) |
| ANNIEERNAUX | Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature who described her prose in the novel "Les Armoires Vides" as "brutally direct, working-class and sometimes obscene" (October, 2022) |
| TERRORS | Do such enfants terribles get the DTs? (7) |
| LES | "___ Enfants Terribles" (Cocteau novel) |
| VICTORHUGO | French poet, novelist, and dramatist best known for the novels Les Miserables and Notre-Dame de Paris |
| IMPS | Enfants terribles |
| JEANVALJEAN | Protagonist of the 1862 Victor Hugo novel Les Miserables (4,7) |
| SUE | Eugene -, 19thcentury author of serial novel Les Mysteres de Paris (3) |
| CARNE | Marcel, French director of the film Les Enfants du Paradis (5) |
| LACLOS | Pierre Choderlos de ?, French author of four-volume novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses (6) |
| EMILEZOLA | French writer of the series of 20 novels Les Rougon-Macquart (5,4) |
| VALJEAN | Jean, central character in the Victor Hugo novel Les Miserables (7) |
| MALLE | Director of "Au Revoir, Les Enfants" |
| COSETTE | Orphan in the 1862 Victor Hugo novel Les Miserables whose birth name is Euphrasie (7) |
| MISERABLES | New miniseries based on a classic French novel: "Les ___" |
| DMITRI | One of Ivan the Terrible's sons |
| ECOLE | Place for les enfants |
