| AUVERGNE | Former administrative region of France comprising the departments of Allier, Puy de Dome, Cantal and Haute Loire |
| AQUITAINE | Region of France comprising the departments of Dordogne, Gironde, Landes, Lot-et-Garonne and Pyrenees-Atlantiques (9) |
| HAUTELOIRE | Department of S central France east of Cantal and west of Ardeche (5-5) |
| DETOURED | Deviated from route winding through heart of Puy-de-Dome (8) |
| LOIRE | Department between Puy-de-Dome and Rhone |
| VAUCLUSE | Department of SE France created in 1793 out of parts of the departments of Bouches-du-Rhone, Drome and Basses-Alpes |
| CANALZONE | Former administrative region of the U.S. on the Isthmus of Panama (5,4) |
| LIMOUSIN | A former administrative region of West-Central France, the capital of which was Limoges (8) |
| ARRONDISSEMENT | Administrative sub-division of the departments of France, or of large cities such as Paris (14) |
| JIMMYCARTER | President who, in 1977 and 1979, signed into law the creation of the Departments of Energy and Education: 2 wds. |
| PARTSOFKESTEVEN | Former administrative region of Lincolnshire from which the baronetcy created for Margaret Thatcher in 1992 is named (5,2,8) |
| CHER | 15th-largest by area of the 101 departments of France, in the Centre-Val de Loire region; capital, Bourges (4) |
| MASSIFCENTRAL | Mountainous region which makes up about 15% of France, with the 1886m Puy de Sancy its highest peak (6,7) |
| TAYSIDE | Former administrative region of central eastern Scotland (7) |
| ALSACE | On January 1, 2021, the French departments of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin became the European Collectivity of ____ |
| LINDSEY | Parts of ------- . the largest of the three former administrative areas of Lincolnshire (7) |
| HUMBERSIDE | Region and former administrative English county that includes the towns of Goole and Grimsby (10) |
| VICHY | Town and spa in Central France on the River Allier, seat of the collaborationist government under Marshal Petain (5) |
| CENTRAL | Great mountainous plateau in southern France whose peaks include Puy de Sancy (6,7) |
| MASSIF | Great mountainous plateau in southern France whose peaks include Puy de Sancy (6,7) |
