| 100% | BERGERAC | 8 | Cyrano de __, French big-nosed writer and duellist |
| 47% | NERVAL | 6 | 19th-century French poet and writer, Gerard de __ |
| 46% | DEPARDIEU | 9 | French actor in Cyrano de Bergerac and Asterix |
| 39% | ALEXIS | 6 | French writer ___ de Tocqueville |
| 39% | SIMONE | 6 | French writer de Beauvoir |
| 39% | STAEL | 5 | French writer Madame de ___ |
| 39% | HONORE | 6 | French writer ___ de Balzac |
| 39% | STAELS | 6 | French writer and family |
| 39% | RENE | 4 | French writer François ___ de Chateaubriand |
| 39% | BEAUVOIR | 8 | Simone de __, French existentialist writer |
| 38% | CONDORCET | 9 | French philosopher and marquis, Nicolas de __ |
| 38% | SARTRE | 6 | French writer of 1940s and 50s |
| 36% | EMILEZOLA | 9 | French writer and activist who saved Alfred Dreyfus |
| 36% | GORGONZOLA | 10 | French writer with snaky hair and a petrifying gaze? |
| 35% | TATI | 4 | "Jour de Fête" star, director and writer, 1949 |
| 34% | KIRROYAL | 8 | French cocktail made with crème de cassis and champagne (2 wds.) |
| 34% | VARDALOS | 8 | Star and writer of “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” |
| 34% | ANDERSEN | 8 | "Little Claus and Big Claus" writer |
| 34% | FULLER | 6 | Samuel —, writer and director of films The Naked Kiss and The Big Red One |
| 33% | KIRROYALE | 9 | French cocktail with champagne and creme de cassis |
| 32% | GIRAUDOUX | 9 | Jean —, French writer whose plays include The Madwoman of Chaillot and Ondine |
| 32% | LAPLACE | 7 | Marquis de ___ (French mathematician and astronomer) |
| 31% | BERGERAC | 8 | Cyrano de __ |
| 31% | HOOTER | 6 | Big nose? |
| 31% | CREME | 5 | French word before and after "de la" |
| 31% | SAMUELBECKETT | 13 | 20th-century writer of the French plays "Waiting for Godot" and "Endgame": 2 wds. |
| 30% | WOOER | 5 | Cyrano de Bergerac, famously |
| 30% | BIGNOSE | 7 | Cyrano de Bergerac feature |
| 30% | NORA | 4 | Writer and director ___ Ephron |
| 30% | JOAN | 4 | Writer and journalist ___ Didion |