| Crime-drama genre | 17 |
| Café ___ (black coffee) | 30 |
| Bleakly pessimistic film genre | 30 |
| Bleak, as literature | 20 |
| Bleak genre | 11 |
| Bleak film genre | 16 |
| Bleak crime fiction | 19 |
| Blanc's opposite | 20 |
| Black, to Chirac | 16 |
| Black, to Balzac | 16 |
| Black, in Rouen | 15 |
| Black, as la nuit | 17 |
| "The Third Man" genre | 31 |
| "The Maltese Falcon" genre | 36 |
| "The Maltese Falcon" film genre | 41 |
| Word after film or café | 26 |
| Très pessimistic | 19 |
| Stendhal's Le Rouge et le ____ | 37 |
| Some fiction, informally | 24 |
| Shadowy genre of crime film | 27 |
| Shadowy film genre | 18 |
| Roulette term | 13 |
| Roulette choice in Rouen | 24 |
| Roulette choice in Monte Carlo | 30 |
| Roulette bet that's not rouge | 33 |
| Roulette bet in Monte Carlo | 27 |
| Rough et ___ | 12 |
| Rouge's sidekick | 20 |
| Rouge's counterpart | 23 |
| Rouge et ___ | 12 |
| Pinot --- (dry red wine) | 24 |
| Pinot ___ (a table wine) | 24 |
| Pinot ___ (a red wine) | 22 |
| Opposite of ''blanc'' | 37 |
| Not rouge | 9 |
| Neo-___ (modern film genre) | 27 |
| Monte Carlo roulette bet | 24 |
| Monte Carlo color | 17 |
| Monte Carlo bet | 15 |
| Mitchum's genre | 19 |
| Like pulp fiction's world | 29 |
| Like many old thrillers | 23 |
| Like "The Maltese Falcon" | 35 |
| Jet, at Orly? | 13 |
| Jacques' black | 18 |
| It pays 1:1 in roulette | 23 |
| Hard-boiled, in a way | 21 |
| Guy ___ (Garrison Keillor character) | 36 |
| Grim genre | 10 |
| Genre that "The Dark Knight" owes a debt to | 53 |
| Genre spoofed by "The Cheap Detective" | 48 |
| Genre of crime literature | 25 |
| Genre of "The Set-Up," 1949 | 37 |
| Film trailer? | 13 |
| Film or pinot follower | 22 |
| Film genre with high-contrast cinematography | 44 |
| Film genre often shot in high contrast | 38 |
| Film follower? | 14 |
| Film --- (moody movie) | 22 |
| Film --- (dark movie) | 21 |
| Film -- (dark movie genre) | 26 |
| Film -- ('50s style) | 24 |
| Film __: somber genre | 21 |
| Film ____: bleak movie | 22 |
| Film ___ (moody genre) | 22 |
| Film ___ (film genre) | 21 |
| Film ___ (dark movie genre) | 27 |
| Film ___ (bleak genre) | 22 |
| Film __ (somber cinematic genre) | 32 |
| Even-money casino bet | 21 |
| Dark: Fr. | 9 |
| Dark picture | 12 |
| Dark film genre, informally | 27 |
| Dark film | 9 |
| Dark crime fiction | 18 |
| Dark and atmospheric | 20 |
| Cynical and bleak | 17 |
| Color of some wine grapes | 25 |
| Color of Monet | 14 |
| Charles de Gaulle's jet | 27 |
| Chandler specialty | 18 |
| Chandler genre | 14 |
| Certain type of film | 20 |
| Casino call | 11 |
| Cafi ___ (black coffee) | 23 |
| 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, s'il vous plaît | 29 |
| Black, in Paris | 15 |
| Black, in Nice | 14 |
| Black, in Nantes | 16 |
| Black, in Montreal | 18 |
| Black, as roulette numbers | 26 |
| Black, along the Somme | 22 |