CLOCK WORD

The solutions from 1 to 12 are all six-letter words ending with the letter L in the centre. Moving clockwise from 1, the letters in the outer circle will spell out the name of a character from an 18th-century French novel.

1. Seafood

2. Antenna

3. Of the nerves

4. Trying experience

5. Standard

6. --- Blair, dancer

7. A good look

8. Lie inelegantly

9. Grain

10. Beast

11. Expose

12. Garden tool