| CIRCUMFLEX | Mark placed over a vowel such as that over the o in French location the Cote d'Azur (10) |
| STATUESQUE | Sculptures that over the channel are possessing formal dignity (10) |
| RESORTAREA | The Cote d'Azur, e.g. |
| VERSAILLES | French location that might be linked with vice (harmful drugs) (10) |
| CAPGRIZNEZ | Closest point of France to England, on the Cote d'Opale (3,4-3) |
| GRAVE | Accent over certain vowels such as over the first e in the French name Lumiere (5) |
| RIVIERA | French ___; English name for the Cote d'Azur, a coastline that takes in Saint-Tropez, Cannes, Nice, Antibes, and the principality Monaco (7) |
| MONACO | Sovereign principality located along the Mediterranean Sea in the midst of the resort area of the Cote d'Azur, or French Riviera. (6) |
| NICE | French city considered the capital of the Cote d'Azur, site of the Promenade des Anglais (4) |
| CANNESOPENERS | Starting acts in a French city on the Cote d'Azur? |
| CANNES | Resort on the Cote d'Azur that hosts an annual film festival along the Croisette (6) |
| HAIRBAND | Put on television from bar in high definition or is that over the top? (8) |
| ZURICH | Coming from the Cote d'Azur I chanced on a place in Switzerland? |
| NICOISE | Salade -; dish of tomatoes, black olives, tuna, anchovies and hard-boiled eggs, named after a city on the Cote d'Azur (7) |
| AMIENS | A stag I bagged in French location |
| HIGHMOUNTAIN | On drugs with weird amount at home - is that over the top and looking down on everyone else? (4,8) |
| ANTIBES | French resort on the Cote d'Azur between Cannes and Nice (7) |
| FILM | From "membrane, skin", a word for a fine thread, gauzy web, haze, mist, pellicle or thin coating that, over time, came to mean a strip of celluloid; or, the motion picture captured on it (4) |
| GRENOBLE | Be longer perhaps in French location |
| NANCY | Sinatra for one in French location |
