| COCTEAU | Jean -, French writer and film director |
| MARCEL | ___ Pagnol, French writer and film-maker (6) |
| QUENTIN | And 23 American actor, writer and film director whose movies include Reservoir Dogs (7,9) |
| ETHAN | Co-writer and film director brother of Joel Coen (5) |
| AGEE | _ Garland, writer and film director (4) |
| TERANTINO | American actor, writer and film director whose movies include Reservoir Dogs (7,9) |
| USTINOV | Surname of the knighted actor, writer and film director, who published the autobiography Dear Me (7) |
| GIRAUDOUX | Jean -, French writer whose plays include The Madwoman of Chaillot and Ondine (9) |
| GENET | Jean, French writer whose plays include The Maids (5) |
| PENETRATE | Go into writer and film with value (9) |
| ANOUILH | Jean -, French author of the stage plays Antigone and Becket (7) |
| MARQUISDESADE | Cruel and debauched French writer and soldier (7,2,4) |
| SARTRE | Jean-Paul -, French writer and philosopher |
| THEA | German author and film star von Harbou |
| BRUNHOFF | Jean de _, French writer and illustrator who created Babar the Elephant (8) |
| CYRANO | Savinien -- de Bergerac, 1619-55, French writer and dramatist (6) |
| VOLTAIRE | French writer and philosopher (1694 1778) |
| HELOISE | French writer and abbess, the lover of Peter Abelard (7) |
| TAVERNER | Jack embraces French writer and composer (8) |
| RIVIERE | Jacques ?, French writer and critic; author of 1912 collection Etudes |
