French Disaster

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Across
  1. 3. The type of floor the Minister paced
  2. 4. Trousers Americans are now—God forbid—buying
  3. 6. Newly-slender man in a photo was from this city
  4. 10. The French ____ met in an emergency session
  5. 13. Scents the air of the Élysée Palace in the opening
  6. 14. Americans don't know how to wear this with "je ne sais quoi"
  7. 15. One of the "biological cheat codes" flowing like cheap wine
  8. 16. Claim that American slimness is cultural ____
  9. 19. The waiter's somber colleague in Montmartre
  10. 20. The third weight-loss drug causing the "Great Thinning"
  11. 21. A pre-filled pen medication mentioned alongside Ozempic
  12. 23. The pastry critiqued for being too carb-heavy
  13. 25. Columnist in Le ____ shrieked about the biological cheat
  14. 26. Basis of the heavy sauces consumed by thin French people
  15. 27. The rapid weight loss constitutes a disruption of global ____
  16. 31. The medications flowed like this kind of wine
  17. 35. Cafes in this district were somber about the collarbones
  18. 36. What "Ugly Americans" are suddenly exhibiting
  19. 38. French people stayed thin out of pure ____
  20. 39. One of the states where the "revolution" was dispensed
  21. 40. Adjusted by the Chief Intellectual with indignation
  22. 41. How the Frenchman bets the American drinks his wine
  23. 43. The "American Fat Joke" was this for national identity
  24. 45. Compression wear worn by the newly energetic retirees
  25. 46. Port where a cruise ship docked with lithe retirees
  26. 47. Meat found on the American burgers of old
  27. 48. What a Frenchman might eat for lunch while judging others
Down
  1. 1. Footwear flaw that saved French superiority
  2. 2. A retiree's critique of a mille-feuille
  3. 4. Suit brand an accountant from Nebraska can now fit into
  4. 5. Lunch item consumed with a side of judgment
  5. 7. How the "plastic pen" clicking Americans now look
  6. 8. Wine sipped by a fashion editor pouting about waifs
  7. 9. The name whispered by the Minister in a trembling voice
  8. 11. Description of the Minister's tragic brow
  9. 12. City where protesters marched with "Rendez-nous" signs
  10. 17. Filed by the French government with the UN
  11. 18. Visible features on Texans that made the waiter lament
  12. 22. Minister of National ____ who paced the parquet floor
  13. 24. Dread felt in the gilded halls
  14. 28. The horrifying data came from this WHO document
  15. 29. The baker sobbed because retirees didn't look at these
  16. 30. Brand of cigarette used to describe French thinness
  17. 32. Tourists were usually spotted by the width of these
  18. 33. Government considered making everyone eat three wheels of this
  19. 34. For decades, France held this while America held the carriers
  20. 37. The Chief argued that slimness belongs to the ____
  21. 40. Type of bacon cheeseburger associated with America
  22. 42. A location of strip malls seeing jawlines
  23. 44. Organization that received the official "smugness" grievance