| LACEUP | In France, the tournament includes 5th place in Golden Boot? (4-2) |
| GRADES | Grammar school receiving excellent 5th place in Ofsted's rankings |
| DYLANFRITTELLI | He tied Rory Mcilroy for fifth place in the 2020 Masters |
| NOBLE | Worthy international prize relegates Spain to 5th place |
| COORS | Company with the largest brewing facility in the world (in Golden, Colorado) |
| ALPH | Poet's sacred runner down in fifth place, making comeback |
| PURSER | One engaged in chase loses fifth place to ship's officer |
| GOFORTH | Depart, say, (but don't set off in fifth place?) (2,5) |
| COARSEN | Become ruder about rowers after loss in fifth place (7) |
| LORIENT | In France, the east is in the west (7) |
| LEGROOM | In France, the man of the match is in space (7) |
| ENNOBLE | In Spain then in France, the good rise in honour (7) |
| ORCA | Hunter in the main in golden state (4) |
| DOUAI | In France, the political and religious centre of exiled English Roman Catholics in the 16th and 17th centuries (5) |
| SOMME | A river in France; the scene of heavy fighting in the First World War (5) |
| LEIPZIG | City in France, the one by dangerous bend in gorge |
| LEO | The lion - or in France the duck (3) |
| LAW | In France the wife makes the rules |
| SEDAN | In France, the place for displaced Danes |
| LACONIC | In France the party in charge is short |
