| HORIZONS | Talbot hatches with Simca 1100 roots (8) |
| BATTEN | Cover the hatches, with "down" |
| BAGHEERA | Sporty Matra-Simca model introduced in 1973 (8) |
| THEODORE | Henri _ Pigozzi, Simca founder (8) |
| CHRYSLER | _ France, the new name for Simca in 1970 (8) |
| PADMINIS | Premier _ , Fiat 1100-based saloons from India (8) |
| MCCUBBIN | Heidelberg painter traps bear in 1100 receptacle (8) |
| TIMBUKTU | Small city in Mali (pop about 55,000), founded around 1100 (8) |
| FACTOTUM | Take out 1100 fat characters to get kind of man of all work (8) |
| DARKAGES | Period in Europe approx 500 - 1100 AD |
| OLDDUTCH | The Dutch language up to about 1100 A.D. (3,5) |
| IRONCAGE | It began around 1100 B.C. |
| ADRIANIV | Born Nicholas Breakspear in 1100, the only ever English pope (6,1,1) |
| ARONDE | Model name for Simca's successful 1951-'64 classic family saloon; more than 1.4 million were built in that period, when Simca became the second biggest carmaker in France (6) |
| RANCHO | This Matra-simca model came with a winch in Grand Raid trim (6) |
| PIGOZZI | Simca founder, Henri Theodore (7) |
| ARIANES | Vedette-bodied Simca models (7) |
| VEDETTE | Large car from Simca that began life as a Ford (7) |
| ARIANE | Simca model introduced in 1957 (6) |
| EUROPE | Chrysler ___, company created by the Simca and Rootes merger (6) |
