| MAYENNE | Department in the Pays de la Loire region of France with the capital Laval (7) |
| SARTHE | Department in the Pays de la Loire, capital Le Mans |
| NANTES | Capital of the Pays de la Loire region of France (6) |
| LOIRETCHAR | Department in the Centre region of France with the capital Blois (4-2-4) |
| MASSIFCENTRAL | Mountainous region which makes up about 15% of France, with the 1886m Puy de Sancy its highest peak (6,7) |
| CHENINBLANC | White grape grown in the Loire region of France and elsewhere, used for making wine (6,5) |
| PETRIFIEDFOREST | Bette dreams of France (with "The") |
| VIOLETS | In exile on Elba, Napoleon told his friends that he would return to France with the appearance of what flowers in the spring? (7) |
| DELILAH | Samson's downfall was due to this seductress in the pay of the Philistines |
| LED | Showed the way around what's in Pays de la Loire (3) |
| STIPEND | Delight by putting extra money in the pay (7) |
| LALOIRE | Pays de ___ (Nantes's region) |
| SAUVIGNON | --- Blanc, a white grape grown in the Bordeaux and Loire regions of France, New Zealand, and elsewhere (9) |
| CHER | 15th-largest by area of the 101 departments of France, in the Centre-Val de Loire region; capital, Bourges (4) |
| LORRAINE | Region of France with a cross that became the Free French symbol in WWII (8) |
| BRIE | Agricultural region of France with "limon" soil, noted for its speciality cheese of the same name (4) |
| SAUVIGIONBLANC | White grape grown in Bordeaux and Loire regions of France (9,5) |
| SAUVIGNONBLANC | White grape grown in Bordeaux and Loire regions of France (9,5) |
| 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) |
| CREPE | Thin pancake originating in Brittany and associated, in France, with the February 2nd feast of Candl |
