| RANCOUR | Ill-feeling stems from the Franco-Uruguayan conflict (7) |
| LAFORGUE | Jules, Franco-Uruguayan Symbolist poet (1860-87) |
| RHUBARB | Unscripted talk in theatre stems from the garden (7) |
| COPPICE | Woodland type in which trees such as hazel, ash, oak or sweet chestnut are regularly cut off at ground level to regenerate new stems from the base (7) |
| LAMPOON | Thought to stem from the French drinking-song refrain "let us drink!", a word meaning publicly criticise by using irony or ridicule (7) |
| FALANGE | The one legal party in Spain under the Franco regime (7) |
| BAZILLE | Which French artist died in the Franco-German War? |
| BEDROOM | Boredom stems from a place of retirement (7) |
| DERIVES | Stems from (7) |
| PINNATE | Of a compound leaf, having a row of leaflets on either side of the central stem; from Latin, 'feathered' (7) |
| PENALTY | Type of football kick that may stem from a foul |
| NAURU | From "pleasant island" to ecological disaster, a tiny country in Oceania whose name possibly stems from the phrase "I go to the beach" (5) |
| EMANATE | Stem (from) |
| LEEDS | City in West Yorkshire whose affinity with owls stems from the three borne in its coat of arms (5) |
| JOLLY | Word, thought to stem from the name of the mid-winter feast or festival "Yule", for "cheerful, delightful, merry"; or, a happy celebration or party (5) |
| DERIVE | Stem from the queen being found in dive (6) |
| EGGS | Oological items whose emulation in chocolate at Easter is thought in Paganism to stem from the goddess of fertility or spring A'ostre/Ostara (4) |
| EMS | German town associated with the 1870 dispatch from Bismarck that led to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War |
| NAPLES | Depression returns to the Franco-Italian city (6) |
| XYZAFFAIR | Diplomatic scandal leading to the Franco-American "Quasi-War" of 1798-1800 |
