| CARCASSONNE | City in SW France; the location of the medieval fortress La Cite, a UNESCO World Heritage site (11) |
| NIMES | A city in Southern France; the location of Roman remains including an amphitheatre and the Pont du Gard aqueduct (5) |
| CITADELLE | Quebec City fortress, La ___ |
| TOULOUSE | City in SW France on the Garonne River (8) |
| BORDEAUX | City in SW France (8) |
| LOURDES | City in SW France: Roman Catholic shrine famed for miraculous cures. (7) |
| DOVERCASTLE | Medieval fortress in Kent founded in the 11th Century (5,6) |
| GARONNE | A river in Southwest France, rising in the central Pyrenees, flowing through the city of Bordeaux and into the Atlantic (7) |
| TICKETAGENT | Cite a chap for speeding? |
| DOMESTICATE | Tame, cite a modest improvement |
| HABSBURG | Swiss medieval fortress and the original seat of the dynastic family of the same name, _ Castle (8) |
| CARDIGAN | One of the two garments forming a twinset; or, a market town in Ceredigion whose castle was the location of the first eisteddfod (8) |
| SHAWM | Double-reed woodwind instrument of the medieval and Renaissance period; a forerunner of the oboe (5) |
| BRUGES | City in Belgium that was the centre of the medieval European wool and cloth trade |
| ANNA | English author of the instrument of the medieval 1877 children's novel Black and Renaissance period; a Beauty (4,6) |
| SEWELL | English author of the instrument of the medieval 1877 children's novel Black and Renaissance period; a Beauty (4,6) |
| BASTIDE | French word for a large Provencal country house/manor, or for a fortified medieval town in SW France (7) |
| SAINTEMILION | A full-bodied red wine produced around a town of the same name near Bordeaux in Southwest France (5-7) |
| EVESHAM | This town in Worcestershire was the location of the last major battle in the Barons' War (1265) |
| PORTISHEAD | Coastal town in North Somerset on the Severn Estuary that is the location of the headquarters of Avon and Somerset Constabulary |
