| BRIE | Agricultural region of France with "limon" soil, noted for its speciality cheese of the same name (4) |
| CHEDDAR | Containing Britain's largest gorge and part of the Strawberry Line cycle route, village on the edge of the Somerset Levels where the cheese of the same name originates (7) |
| AQUITAINE | A home in a rather agricultural region of France |
| IMPERIALVALLEY | Agricultural region of California |
| LOIRETCHAR | Department in the Centre region of France with the capital Blois (4-2-4) |
| AGEN | A market town on the Garonne river in south-west France noted for its speciality prunes that are often steeped in Armagnac (4) |
| BAKEWELL | Town in the Derbyshire Dales noted for its speciality pastry pudding with an almond-flavoured filling and a layer of jam (8) |
| MAYENNE | Department in the Pays de la Loire region of France with the capital Laval (7) |
| TEAL | A deep greenish blue, reminiscent of the colour of the distinctive eye patches of a duck of the same name (4) |
| BURGUNDY | French wine region noted for its speciality creme de cassis (8) |
| LORRAINE | Region of France with a cross that became the Free French symbol in WWII (8) |
| THUN | Town in the canton of Bern in Switzerland where the Aare flows out of a lake of the same name (4) |
| SASH | One of a pair of sliding frames containing a pane of glass for a window of the same name (4) |
| NEON | Very bright version of a colour, reminiscent of a sign illuminated with a gas of the same name (4) |
| MASSIFCENTRAL | Mountainous region which makes up about 15% of France, with the 1886m Puy de Sancy its highest peak (6,7) |
| PROVENCE | Depicted in memoirs by Peter Mayle and later a mini-series starring John Thaw, a region of France with a lavender season between June and August (8) |
| MESS | Word for a group of iguanas; or, a number of military personnel who eat together in a dining hall or room of the same name (4) |
| BEES | Busy people, competitions for spelling or gatherings for quilting/sewing, all named for their resemblance to industrious sociable buzzing or humming honey-making hymenopterans of the same name (4) |
| PEAL | Series of changes rung on a set of bells of the same name (4) |
| CLUB | Fight - - -, 1999 film adaptation of the Chuck Palahniuk novel of the same name (4) |
