| TAHITIAN | Native of French Polynesia (8) |
| TAHITIANS | Natives of French Polynesia (9) |
| BASQUE | Native of French-Spanish border area |
| BORABORA | Island in the Leeward group of the Society Islands of French Polynesia used as a US military supply |
| PAPEETE | Capital of French Polynesia, on the NW coast of the island of Tahiti (7) |
| ILESSOUSLEVENT | What is the French name for the section of French Polynesia known in English as the Leeward Islands? |
| TAHITI | Largest of the Iles du Vent (Windward Islands) of French Polynesia (6) |
| AUSTRAL | What word for "southern", when capitalised, can be a suburb of Sydney, a hotel in Rundle Street or the southernmost islands of French Polynesia? (7) |
| MARQUESAS | They're part of French Polynesia [2002] |
| ILES | Parts of French Polynesia |
| BORA | When repeated, part of French Polynesia |
| HEYERDAHL | Norwegian anthropologist who crossed the Pacific from Peru to the Tuamotu Islands of French Polynesia on the balsa raft Kon-Tiki in 1947 (4,9) |
| THOR | Norwegian anthropologist who crossed the Pacific from Peru to the Tuamotu Islands of French Polynesia on the balsa raft Kon-Tiki in 1947 (4,9) |
| PAULGAUGUIN | French Post-Impressionist artist who spent ten years of his life in French Polynesia (4,7) |
| GAUGUIN | Paul, French post-Impressionist painter who died in French Polynesia in 1903 (7) |
| REAO | Island in French Polynesia |
| LES | Article from French Polynesia |
| OREA | French Polynesia island near Tahiti, Mo'___ |
| OPENLY | French Polynesia loses franchise publicly (6) |
| AIRTAHITI | It has flights around French Polynesia |
