| BRETON | Frenchman is crooked or bent (6) |
| DOGLEG | Crooked or bent like a dog's hind leg (3,3) |
| UPRIGHT | Word for a perpendicular chair, piano, post, stake, stone etc, thus a person who is morally straight/honest, as opposed to crooked or bent (7) |
| SKEWED | Distorted, biased or bent (6) |
| JOINTS | Can be smoked, eaten, rolled or bent (6) |
| ENTITY | Something that exists with tin, yet is crooked (6) |
| CAPTOR | Kidnapper is crooked cop - rat! (6) |
| FINIAL | If nail is crooked, put it on top of spire (6) |
| FETISH | What one has a fixation about if the S is crooked (6) |
| CAMSHO | Small deception surrounding shorthand is crooked amongst Scots |
| SCRIMP | To economise, Frenchman is introduced to bonus shares (6) |
| MISFIT | Eccentric Frenchman is suitable (6) |
| SERENE | The way a Frenchman is unflappable (6) |
| MADAME | Frenchman is the eldest with Oriental nice wife (6) |
| CHAISE | Carriage in which a Frenchman is seated (6) |
| DEMISE | Frenchman is in river: it's the end (6) |
| AWRY | Askew, crooked or lopsided |
| BENT | Crooked or warped |
| DISHONEST | Figure this one's crooked, or deceitful (9) |
| WONKIER | More crooked or off-center |
