| QUAI | Street in Paris whose name is used figuratively to refer to the French foreign office (4) |
| DORSAY | Street in Paris whose name is used figuratively to refer to the French foreign office (6) |
| QUAIDORSAY | Street in Paris whose name is used figuratively to refer to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (4,6) |
| ORSAY | Quay d'-----, Paris street, home of the French Foreign Office (5) |
| ARRAN | Quay d'-----, Paris street, home of the French Foreign Office (5) |
| ECHO | Oread whose name is used to describe a reflection of a sound (4) |
| DIBS | Knuckle-bones-based game whose name is used as a childish or informal way to assert a prior claim (4) |
| SPAM | Food product whose name is used nowadays mostly in a nonfood way |
| JUAN | Theatre director whose name is used as rhyming slang for a university degree graded 2:1 (4) |
| APOGEE | Word for the point of a planet's orbit at which it is farthest from Earth, thus used figuratively to refer to a climax, culmination or highest point (6) |
| YOYO | Toy whose name is used to describe some diets: Hyph. |
| PLOT | A small piece of ground; a ground plan; a secret underhand scheme, aka a conspiracy; or, in the Scots dialect, a word for "pluck feathers, strip of hair", thus figuratively "to fleece" (4) |
| ROUGE | Famous cabaret in Paris whose name is French for 'red mill' (6,5) |
| MOULIN | Famous cabaret in Paris whose name is French for 'red mill' (6,5) |
| BEAU | ___ Geste: novel/film about the French Foreign Legion. (4) |
| NOTREDAME | Gothic cathedral on the Ile de la Cite in central Paris whose name means 'Our Lady' (5,4) |
| MAGPIE | Corvid known collectively as a mischief whose name is used to refer to a chatterbox or a hoarder; the outermost-but-one ring on a target; or, slang for a halfpenny (6) |
| GUY | "Blast from the past" whose name is used to refer to a fellow, a joke, a lark, an oddly dressed figure or ridicule (3) |
| MAELSTROM | Used figuratively to describe a turbulent situation, a Dutch word for a whirlpool or vortex such as the world's strongest off the coast of Norway (9) |
| MILESTONE | Word for a waymarker/guidepost indicating distances to the nearest town or village, also used figuratively to describe a significant life event (9) |
