| EUREETLOIR | Departement in north France, capital Chartres (4-2-4) |
| HAUTELOIRE | A land-locked departement in southern France, capital Le Puy (5-5) |
| LUXEMBOURG | Capital of the same-named tiny country bordered by Belgium on the west and north, France on the south, and Germany on the northeast and east (10) |
| LENS | Industrial town in North France that was completely destroyed in the First World War (4) |
| TULLE | Capital of the Correze departement in south-west France (5) |
| SOMME | River in north France; scene of heavy fighting in World War One (5) |
| LILLE | City in North France, in French Flanders near the border with Belgium (5) |
| ORLEANS | Capital of the Loiret departement in France |
| LEHAVRE | Port in north France (2,5) |
| ROUEN | A city in North France, on the River Seine, the scene of the burning of Joan of Arc in 1431 (5) |
| AGINCOURT | A battle fought in 1415 in North France, a decisive victory for Henry V's army over French forces (9) |
| AMIENS | City in North France, home to a large Gothic cathedral (6) |
| ARDECHE | Departement in southern central France (7) |
| MORBIHAN | French departement in Brittany in which the Carnac stones are located (8) |
| ORNE | The only landlocked departement in Normandy (4) |
| BASSESALPES | Former name (until 1970) of the departement in Provence with the capital Digne (6-5) |
| SAINTETIENNE | City in France that is the capital of the Loire departement |
| CALVADOS | Apple brandy of north France (8) |
| CHANTILLY | North France lace town (9) |
| MAINEETLOIRE | French departement, capital Angers (5-2-5) |
