France's longest river, whose valley is famous for wine and chateaux (and whose name comes from the Latin 'liger', which sadly has nothing to do with the lion-tiger hybrid)
7A
Nut used in a popular non-dairy beverage
9A
Small balls, for example of chewed food
11A
Marvelous sister to Gamora
12A
Poles, for example
13A
Monica of the court
Verticali
1D
Big slice of cake
2D
"I love the smell of his ___!" (infamously awkward misspelling of a fragrance)
3D
Lacking direction
4D
"Nobody Knows the ___ I've Seen" (African-American spiritual)