| ILEDEFRANCE | Region in the Paris basin |
| SPAT | Spoke crisply in the Paris patois |
| HARDDRIVE | Bit of computer kit in the Paris-Dakar rally? |
| ARISE | Stand up in the Paris express (5) |
| ELIASHOWE | His machine won a gold medal in the Paris Exhibition of 1867 |
| LEGROOM | In the Paris train there's scope for footsie! (7) |
| MIDINETTE | A young female worker, especially a shop assistant, in the Paris fashion or millinery business |
| HYPERBOREA | In ancient Greek mythology, the name of this place (and its inhabitants) refers to Boreas, the north wind, and their home was placed in a paradisal region in the far north, "beyond the north wind." (1 |
| BERBERA | Port on the Gulf of Aden in the Sahil region in the autonomous area of Somaliland in Somalia |
| KLONDIKE | Region in the Yukon in NW Canada that was the site of rich gold deposits discovered in 1896 (8) |
| RUBALKHALI | Vast desert region in the southern Arabian Peninsula, constituting the largest portion of the Arabian Desert. Its name means "Empty Quarter" in Arabic. (3,2,5) |
| INSULA | Region in the cerebral cortex of the brain associated with the regulation of emotion; also known as the island of Reil (6) |
| BERETS | This type of head wear was developed in the Basque region in the 19th century and is associated with |
| RANDSTAD | Region in the Netherlands consisting primarily of the cities Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Utr |
| CIRCASSIA | A region in the Caucasus along the north-east shore of the Black Sea (9) |
| OCEANIA | Geographic region in the Pacific; or, one of the nations in Nineteen Eighty-Four (7) |
| CORNWALL | With areas belonging to one of the Prince of Wales' two duchies, a region in the South West identified by the black and white Saint Piran's Flag (8) |
| CRIMEA | Peninsula and autonomous region in the Ukraine between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov |
| NUBIAN | ____ Desert, arid and rocky region in the eastern region of the Sahara Desert (6) |
| WIELD | Control the uncultivated region in the East (5) |
