| TRIPLE | Early 20th-century alliance linking Britain, France and Russia in opposition to Germany, Italy and A |
| ENTENTE | Early 20th century alliance linking Britain, France and Russia in opposition to Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary (6,7) |
| TRIPLEENTENTE | What informal alliance existed between Britain, France and Russia in the early twentieth century as a counterbalance to the alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy? (6.7) |
| CRIMEANWAR | Conflict fought from 1853-56 between Russia and an alliance of Turkey, Britain, France and Sardinia |
| CRIMEAN | ? War, 1853-56 conflict between Russia and an alliance of Turkey, Britain, France and Sardinia |
| ARDEA | Name shared by a town in Lazio, west central italy, and a genus of herons (5) |
| RIVIERA | Perhaps the Po floods Italy and a part of coastal France (7) |
| ELGRECO | Composer dismissing a writer from Italy and a painter from further East |
| HELLOGOODBYE | November 1967 Beatles single that topped the charts in the United States, the UK, France and Norway |
| AXIS | The -, name given to the alliance of Nazi Germany, Italy and Japan formalized by the 1940 Tripartite |
| ANATOLIA | Most of France, Italy and a region of Turkey (8) |
| OUIDA | Woman novelist had approval in France and Russia |
| DRDO | Organization evaluating proposals from UK, France, and Japan for co-developing fighter jet engines with India.(abbrv) (4) |
| ALLIES | Collective term for the forces which defeated Germany, Italy, and Japan in World War 2 (6) |
| SUEZ | Which 1956 crisis involved Britain, France, Israel and Egypt? (4) |
| TRIPLEALLIANCE | 1882 agreement between Germany, Italy and Austria-Hungary (6,8) |
| TORNADO | Combat aircraft jointly developed by Germany, Italy and the UK (7) |
| EMPIRE | Britain, France, Spain once or |
| CHUNNEL | Britain-France connector |
| ENTENTECORDIALE | UK/France series of agreements in 1904 (7,8) |