| LOTI | Pierre -; pen name of the French novelist who wrote Pecheur d'Islande and Matelot (4) |
| COLETTE | Pen name of the French novelist who wrote Gigi (7) |
| GEORGESAND | Literary pseudonym of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, the French novelist who had an affair with Chopin (6,4) |
| HUGO | Victor -; French novelist who wrote Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (4) |
| SAND | George, pen-name of Amandine Dupin, the French novelist (4) |
| STENDHAL | Pen name of Marie Henri Beyle, French novelist who wrote The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma (8) |
| ZOLA | Zoom half cut off the French novelist (4) |
| ANATOLE | Pen name of the French novelist famous for the Crime of Sylvester Bonnard, Thais, etc. (7,6) |
| FRANCE | Pen name of the French novelist famous for the Crime of Sylvester Bonnard, Thais, etc. (7,6) |
| ALTO | In part of Le Pauvre Matelot Lanza turned counter-tenor (4) |
| PORT | A fortified wine left for the matelot (4) |
| MATE | The matelot's senior officer? (4) |
| PROSPERMERIMEE | French novelist who wrote the short stories Colomba, Carmen and La Venus d'Ille (7,7) |
| HAITI | The father of the French novelist and playwright Alexandre Dumas was born in which present-day country? (5) |
| EMILE | First name of the French novelist Zola (5) |
| EUGENESUE | French novelist who wrote The Mysteries of Paris |
| DUMAS | French novelist who wrote The Count of Monte Cristo (5) |
| JULESVERNE | French novelist who wrote 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea: 2 wds. |
| VICTORHUGO | French novelist who wrote Les Miserables published in 1862 (6,4) |
| MARCELPROUST | French novelist who wrote In Search Of Lost Time (6,6) |
