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