| VOUVRAY | A wine produced around Touraine in the Loire Valley (7) |
| TUAN | 13 regularly visited Touraine |
| CHATEAU | Grand French country house or castle, many of which are found in the Loire Valley |
| RANGERS | Right city in the Loire for those working in parks (7) |
| ETIENNE | Saint- _, city in central France in the Loire department (7) |
| BEERMAT | Which pub-related item was first produced around 1880 by Friedrich Horn, a German printer? (7) |
| SURFEIT | Too much fruit's produced around end of June (7) |
| TREACLE | Syrup from claret produced around east (7) |
| HELOISE | French lover seen in the Loire topless, leaving river to catch sun (7) |
| SAINTEMILION | A full-bodied red wine produced around a town of the same name near Bordeaux in south-west France (5-7) |
| SANCERRE | A white wine produced in the Loire valley in France (8) |
| FILEFOR | Start proceedings that could end very loudly in the Loire (4,3) |
| RIOJA | Wine produced around the Ebro valley in Spain |
| CHAMPAGNE | A sparkling wine produced around Reims and Epernay in France (9) |
| CHAMBORD | A brand of raspberry- or "framboise"-flavoured liqueur; or, a French commune, home the largest chateau in the Loire Valley (8) |
| ANJOU | A former province of western France, in the Loire valley, the ruling family of which gave rise to the English Plantagenets (5) |
| TOURSOPERATOR | Switchboard worker in a French city in the Loire Valley? |
| MEDOC | Red wine produced around the Gironde estuary |
| CHER | River in the Loire Valley spanned by the Chateau de Chenonceau (4) |
| TOURS | Arranged trips to a place in the Loire Valley (5) |
