| Text | Length |
| Pessimists offer it | 19 |
| What a goner has | 16 |
| Nary a chance | 13 |
| A lack of prospects | 19 |
| Not in any way | 14 |
| Not by a long shot | 18 |
| At all, in dialect | 18 |
| With zero chance | 16 |
| At all, slangily | 16 |
| Not on your life! | 17 |
| Not in the least | 16 |
| Never, ever, ever | 17 |
| Never in any way | 16 |
| Having zero chance | 18 |
| Ever, in dialect | 16 |
| We, in Italy | 12 |
| We, to Ponti | 12 |
| We, to Luciano | 14 |
| We, to Loren | 12 |
| We, in Siracusa | 15 |
| Team feature? | 13 |
| Public Enemy ___ | 16 |
| ____ won't! | 15 |
| "Got me" | 18 |
| Shrug, verbalized | 17 |
| Black, in Brest | 15 |
| Roulette color | 14 |
| Dark film genre | 15 |
| Black, in Bordeaux | 18 |
| Pinot ___ (wine) | 16 |
| Roulette choice | 15 |
| Black, in France | 16 |
| Somber genre | 12 |
| Gritty film genre | 17 |
| Bleak, in Hollywood | 19 |
| Type of film | 12 |
| Somber film genre | 17 |
| Rouge's partner | 19 |
| Pinot __: red wine | 18 |
| Opposite of blanc | 17 |
| Hard-boiled genre | 17 |
| Grim film genre | 15 |
| Film follower | 13 |
| Crime-drama genre | 17 |
| Bleak film genre | 16 |
| Bleak crime fiction | 19 |
| Black, to Chirac | 16 |
| Black, to Balzac | 16 |
| Black, in Rouen | 15 |
| Black, as la nuit | 17 |
| Très pessimistic | 19 |
| Shadowy film genre | 18 |
| Roulette term | 13 |
| Rough et ___ | 12 |
| Rouge et ___ | 12 |
| Monte Carlo color | 17 |
| Monte Carlo bet | 15 |
| Mitchum's genre | 19 |
| Jet, at Orly? | 13 |
| Jacques' black | 18 |
| Film trailer? | 13 |
| Film follower? | 14 |
| Dark picture | 12 |
| Dark crime fiction | 18 |
| Cynical and bleak | 17 |
| Color of Monet | 14 |
| Chandler specialty | 18 |
| Chandler genre | 14 |
| Bleak, film-wise | 16 |
| Bleak, as film | 14 |
| Bleak, as a movie | 17 |
| Bleak, as a film | 16 |
| Bleak film style | 16 |
| Black, to Pierre | 16 |
| Black, to Jacques | 17 |
| Black, to Braque | 16 |
| Black, in Paris | 15 |
| Black, in Nice | 14 |
| Black, in Nantes | 16 |
| Black, in Montreal | 18 |
| Black, abroad | 13 |
| Black in Burgundy | 17 |
| Bête ____ | 12 |
| Black, in Boulogne | 18 |
| Bête's color | 19 |
| Bete ___ (bane) | 15 |
| Bête --- | 15 |
| Opposite of blanche | 19 |
| Like la nuit | 12 |
| Like ink, in France | 19 |
| Kind of bête | 15 |
| Burgundy black | 14 |
| Black, to Brigitte | 18 |
| Black, in Burgundy | 18 |
| Black, in Blois | 15 |
| Bete's couleur | 18 |
| Bête follower | 16 |
| Bête _____ | 13 |
| Roulette choices | 16 |
| Rouge alternatives | 18 |
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