| ENTENTE | From the French meaning "understanding", an alliance between great powers (7) |
| COLDWAR | Fishing dispute masks large one between great powers (4,3) |
| TRIPLEENTENTE | Friendly understanding developing into an alliance between Britain, France and Russia (6,7) |
| AXIS | What is an alliance between a number of states to coordinate their foreign policy? (4) |
| CRICKET | Sport which featured at the Olympics only once, with a solitary game in 1900 between Great Britain and France (the former won the gold) |
| COMMAND | Understanding an order (7) |
| CORSAGE | Derived from the French meaning "body", a small boutonniere-like bouquet or spray worn on the wrist or pinned to the bodice of a dress (7) |
| UNUSUAL | Extraordinary alliance between UN and America, semi-casual (7) |
| RAINBOW | ___ coalition, a political alliance between minority groups or parties of varying opinions (7) |
| PELOTON | From the French meaning "small ball", word for the main body of riders in a cycle race (7) |
| CUISINE | From the French meaning "kitchen", a style or manner of cooking; or, the food so prepared (7) |
| SAUTOIR | From the French meaning "stirrup for jumping into the saddle", a long necklace of seed pearls or other gems ending in a tassel or pendant (7) |
| NIAGARA | River between Great Lakes |
| LIAISON | From the French meaning "to bind", word used in cookery for a thickener that is also used to mean connection or communication (7) |
| GOURMET | From the French meaning "wine taster" or "vintner's assistant", a connoisseur of fine food (7) |
| ECHELON | From the French meaning "ladder", a step-like formation of aircraft, ships, troops or vehicles or of cyclists drafting in crosswinds (7) |
| BOUDOIR | From the French meaning "to pout" or "sulking-place", a woman's private room or bedchamber (7) |
| ENSUITE | From the French meaning "in sequence", a private bathroom attached to bedroom (2,5) |
| RISE | Paul Kennedy's "The ___ and Fall of the Great Powers" |
| PLANARIANS | Turbellarian flatworms of the division Tricadida, with flattened bodies and great powers of regeneration (10) |
