| ROUGEMONT | Denis de ___, Swiss writer whose works include L'Amour et l'Occident, translated as Love in the Western World |
| BALBASTRE | Claude -, 18th-century French composer and keyboardist whose works include Marche des Marseillois et l'air Ca-ira (9) |
| STAEL | Madame de __ (Swiss author) |
| VOWEL | It sounds like love in the West |
| ALAINDEBOTTON | Swiss writer whose books include How Proust Can Change Your Life and Essays In Love |
| MALLARME | Stephane, French poet whose works include L'Apres-midi d'un faune (8) |
| BENOIT | Pierre ___, French novelist whose works include L'Atlantide (1919) (6) |
| MATISSE | Henri, French artist whose works include L'Escargot (7) |
| HESSE | The first novel of which German Swiss writer and Nobel laureate was Peter Camenzind (1904) |
| ANNUALS | Sow hardy ___ such as love-in-a-mist into gaps in borders (7) |
| HABANERA | Popular name for the aria L'amour est un oiseau rebelle ('Love is a rebellious bird') in Georges Bizet's Carmen (1875) (8) |
| JAMESELLROY | US crime writer whose novels include L. A. Confidential (5,6) |
| DEGAS | Edgar ___, French artist whose paintings include L'Absinthe and La Classe de Danse |
| LOUIS | "How the West Was Won" writer L'Amour |
| NIGELLA | Plant also known as love-in-a-mist (7) |
| BALLOON | - vine; plant known as love-in-a-puff or Cardiospermum halicacabum (7) |
| PANSY | Flower also known as love-in-idleness |
| HEIDI | Popular children's novel by Swiss author Johanna Spyri published in two parts in 1880 and 1881 (5) |
| JOHANNDAVIDWYSS | Swiss author best known for 1812's Der schweizerische Robinson (The Swiss Family Robinson) (6,5,4) |
| HALF | Break in end of paragraph where N-Z found to include L (4,4) |
