| BORDEAUX | Port in Gironde, France, on the River Garon ne (8) |
| DORDOGNE | River in S.W. France which joins the Garonne to form the Gironde estuary (8) |
| CADILLAC | Swine sickly at a cold Gironde commune (8) |
| SCHEMING | French path in South Gironde at first slippery |
| IGNORED | Left out in the cold, shivering in Gironde |
| ROUEN | A city in North France, on the River Seine, the scene of the burning of Joan of Arc in 1431 (5) |
| SAUTERNES | Sweet white wine from the Gironde, France (9) |
| GITE | It could be found in Gironde, vacant |
| RONDEAU | Poem hidden in Gironde auberge (7) |
| VICHY | Town and spa in Central France on the River Allier, seat of the collaborationist government under Marshal Petain (5) |
| SEDAN | Town in N.E. France on the River Meuse, scene of a 1940 battle in World War II (5) |
| ARLES | City in France on the River Rhone that houses a Roman amphitheater (5) |
| TOURS | Town in central France on the River Loire housing a Gothic cathedral (5) |
| AMIENS | City in northern France on the River Somme (6) |
| VALENCIENNES | Coal-mining town in France on the River Escaut (12) |
| ANGERS | A city in western France, on the River Maine (6) |
| AMIE | Girlfriend, in Gironde |
| GARONNE | River that rises in the central Pyrenees in Spain and flows into the Gironde estuary in France (7) |
| METZ | City in North East France on the River Moselle, annexed to Germany from 1871 to 1918 (4) |
| ALBI | Town in southern France on the River Tarn, birthplace of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (4) |
