Possible Clues:

• I may be taken in by very poor clipped old coin
• Brown Bomber
• - - Quatorze
• US oil liquidated in French money
• 1 across - one laid into despicable type endlessly
• Heavyweight champ from 1937-49
• Famous French king
• Satchmo's first name
• Old king whose laws protect what uniform stands for
• He won twenty-six world title fights