Crossword puzzle : Wordplay in French

Think you’ve mastered French? Put your linguistic finesse to the ultimate test with this fiendishly clever crossword dedicated to the art of French wordplay. From contrepèteries and calembours to verlan and beyond, this puzzle challenges your deepest knowledge of how the French language bends, twists, and delights in its own cleverness. Only the sharpest minds need apply.

Horizontalement

1. 2. a clever trick or witty remark
2. 4. To want
3. 5. Next
4. 8. mild word replacing harsh expression
5. 9. word reading same forwards and back
6. 11. repetition of consonant sounds in text
7. 13. words that sound alike
8. 14. To write
9. 15. double meaning or ambiguity

Verticalement

1. 1. Often
2. 1. often or frequently
3. 3. riddle based on syllable sounds
4. 6. To be born
5. 7. newly coined word or expression
6. 10. speech or word
7. 10. spoken word or speech
8. 12. wit or clever intelligence