| PAPEETE | Capital of French Polynesia |
| ILESSOUSLEVENT | What is the French name for the section of French Polynesia known in English as the Leeward Islands? |
| BORABORA | Island in the Leeward group of the Society Islands of French Polynesia used as a US military supply |
| TAHITI | Papeete, on this island's northwestern coast, is the capital and administrative center of French Polynesia. |
| AUSTRAL | What word for "southern", when capitalised, can be a suburb of Sydney, a hotel in Rundle Street or the southernmost islands of French Polynesia? (7) |
| MARQUESAS | They're part of French Polynesia [2002] |
| TAHITIAN | Resident of French Polynesia |
| ILES | Parts of French Polynesia |
| BORA | When repeated, part of French Polynesia |
| TAHITIANS | Natives of French Polynesia (9) |
| HEYERDAHL | Norwegian anthropologist who crossed the Pacific from Peru to the Tuamotu Islands of French Polynesia on the balsa raft Kon-Tiki in 1947 (4,9) |
| THOR | Norwegian anthropologist who crossed the Pacific from Peru to the Tuamotu Islands of French Polynesia on the balsa raft Kon-Tiki in 1947 (4,9) |
| CAYENNE | Type of pepper or the capital of French Guiana |
| LILLE | Capital of French Flanders (and birthplace of de Gaulle) |
| HANOI | Capital of French Indochina |
| BASSETERRN | Capital of French overseas department Guadeloupe (5-5) |
| DAKAR | Capital of French West Africa from 1902 (5) |
| BASSETERRE | Capital of French overseas department Guadeloupe |
| MOBILEALABAMA | City that was the first capital of French Louisiana |
| MOBILE | Alabama’s oldest city, once the capital of French Louisiana |
