| 100% | LIS | 3 | Fleur-de-__, decorative lily with French name |
| 66% | LIS | 3 | Fleur-de-__, decorative French lily design |
| 54% | LIS | 3 | Fleur-de-__, French spelling of decorative lily |
| 51% | LIS | 3 | Fleur-de-__, French for lily flower |
| 50% | LIS | 3 | French lily (fleur de ___) |
| 49% | GROLIER | 7 | Decorative style of bookbinding named after French bibliophile Jean — de Servieres |
| 48% | LIS | 3 | Decorative French emblem: fleur-de-__ |
| 45% | ELLE | 4 | French fashion magazine with a palindromic name |
| 45% | BORABORA | 8 | French Polynesian island with a repeating name |
| 43% | MARIPOSAS | 9 | Lilies with a name that means "butterfly" in Spanish |
| 43% | ALAIN | 5 | Philosopher de Botton, with Swiss-French name |
| 41% | FERMAT | 6 | French mathematician with a theorem, Pierre de __ |
| 41% | KIR | 3 | French cocktail made with crème de cassis |
| 41% | LILLE | 5 | French city whose name rhymes with "peel" |
| 41% | HOLLANDE | 8 | Former French president with Dutch-sounding name |
| 41% | NAPOLEON | 8 | French Emperor with the last name Bonaparte |
| 41% | KIRROYALE | 9 | French cocktail with champagne and creme de cassis |
| 41% | OISE | 4 | French river with three vowels in its name |
| 41% | BORABORA | 8 | French Polynesian resort destination with a repeating name |
| 41% | PITOT | 5 | French physicist with a tube named for him |
| 41% | BROCA | 5 | French scientist with brain area named like him |
| 40% | SEL | 3 | Fleur de __ (French seasoning) |
| 40% | SHRUB | 5 | Name for a decorative bush, that rhymes with "scrub" |
| 40% | SEDAN | 5 | French city that shares its name with a car |
| 40% | PAULBROCA | 9 | French medic, with a brain area named after him |
| 39% | LIS | 3 | Fleur-de-__; lily |
| 39% | SEDAN | 5 | French commune that shares its name with a car variety |
| 39% | HENRI | 5 | With 63-Across, first two names of Guy de Maupassant |
| 39% | LILLE | 5 | Northern French city whose name rhymes with "peel" |
| 38% | KIRROYAL | 8 | French cocktail made with crème de cassis and champagne (2 wds.) |