| ARDECHE | Department in the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region of SE France; capital, Privas (7) |
| DROME | Department in the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region of SE France; capital, Valence (5) |
| ISERE | Mountainous department in the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region of SE France; capital, Grenoble (5) |
| VICHY | City in the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region of central France (5) |
| HAUTESAVLIE | Department in the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region of E France bordering both Switzerland and 34 Down; capital. Annecy (5-6) |
| ETIENNE | Saint-___ (capital city in the RhA'ne-Alpes region of France) |
| RIVIERA | Part of the Mediterranean coastal region of SE France and NW Italy, extending from Cannes to La Spezia (7) |
| SAVOIE | French department in Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region, capital Chambery (6) |
| LYON | Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region, as in 'Ville Clematis de ___' (4) |
| RHONEALPES | Former region of SE France from the edge of the Massif Central in the west to the Switzerland and Italy borders (5-5) |
| VALENCE | City of southeast France, on the Rhone (7) |
| AVIGNON | City of SE France .... (7) |
| VAR | Department of SE France; capital Toulon (3) |
| VAUCLUSE | Department of SE France created in 1793 out of parts of the departments of Bouches-du-Rhone, Drome and Basses-Alpes |
| LOIRE | Department of E central France in the Rhene-Alpes region; capital, Saint Etienne (5) |
| NICE | Capital of the Alpes-Maritimes department of SE France; chief resort of the Cote d'Azur, or French Riviera (4) |
| PROVENCE | Historic region of SE France noted for its summer-flowering fields of purple lavender (8) |
| COTEDAZUR | Mediterranean coastal region of SE France also known as the French Riviera (4,5) |
| PROVENCAL | The language of an historic region of southeast France (9) |
| AUVERGNE | Historic region of south central France merged with the neighbouring Rhone-Alpes in 2016 (8) |
