| ALSACE | Region of Eastern France (3,280 sq miles; pop about 1.9 million), restored to the country in 1945 (6) |
| TWISTY | Discursive wit restored to the pen (6) |
| ACRES | There are about 1.9 billion of them in the continental United States |
| ESCAPE | Get away to the country in BBC daytime show (6) |
| TOMMY | British singer ... Steele brought rock and roll to the country in 1957 |
| ALIENATION | Key to most of 24 across going to the country in isolation (10) |
| RASPUTIN | Russian mystic who gained influence in the country in the early years of the 20th century while acting as faith-healer to the family of the Tsar (8) |
| ANNECY | City and resort in the Alps of Eastern France, on a lake of the same name (6) |
| LORRAINE | Learning about shower in region of Eastern France (8) |
| DIJON | Capital of the Burgundy region of eastern France (5) |
| ISERE | Department in the Auvergne-Rhene-Alpes region of eastern France; capital, Grenoble (5) |
| SOWETO | Now a suburb of Johannesburg, where is home to an estimated 1.9 million people? (6) |
| PANAMA | located near the Pacific Ocean terminus of the the canal with which it and the country in which it is located share a name, ______ City (6) |
| CLUNY | Town in the Saone-et-Loire department of eastern France that gives its name to a bobbin lace used in clothing etc. (5) |
| ROBBINS | The world's largest chain of ice cream stores, founded in Glendale, California in 1945 (6-7) |
| BASKIN | The world's largest chain of ice cream stores, founded in Glendale, California in 1945 (6-7) |
| ANHALT | Former duchy and state of central Germany merged with the Prussian province of Saxony in 1945 (6) |
| BRESSE | Region of Eastern France |
| BURGUNDY | Region of eastern France famous for its wines (8) |
| CHABLIS | Region of eastern France, famous for Its dry white wine (7) |
