| YPRES | Town near the border with France |
| BADENBADEN | Spa town in SW Germany near the border with France |
| ANETO | Highest mountain in the Pyrenees, in N Spain near the border with France (5) |
| SAARBRUCKEN | State capital of Saarland in western Germany, on the River Saar near the border with France (11) |
| LUINO | Small Italian town near the border with Switzerland on the eastern shore of Lake Maggiore (5) |
| TORORO | Ugandan town near the border with Kenya |
| NAHARIYA | Israeli coastal town near the border with Lebanon (8) |
| OSWESTRY | Historic Shropshire town near the border with Wales (8) |
| PENSACOLA | Coastal Florida university town near the border with Alabama (9) |
| NAVARRE | Autonomous region of northern Spain on the border with France; capital, Pamplona (7) |
| SPANISHONIONS | Those on the border with France getting in soon in disguise - they'll bring tears to your eyes (7,6) |
| ROSS | ___-on-Wye, town near the border of England and Wales (4) |
| ITALY | Country having a land border with France and Slovenia (5) |
| PERPIGNAN | French town located at the foot of the Pyrenees near the border with Spain, in the 13th century it was the continental capital of the then Kingdom of Mallorca (9) |
| BERETS | This type of head wear was developed in the Basque region in the 19th century and is associated with France |
| SCHELDT | (GKN) Second-longest river of Belgium after the Meuse, shared with France and the Netherlands (7) |
| LILLE | The anti-tuberculosis vaccine, the BCG, was discovered at the Pasteur Institute in this French city near the border with Belgium |
| MONMOUTH | Town in SE Wales near the border with England at the confluence of the Rivers Wye and Monnow |
| AGARTALA | Capital of the state of Tripura in NE India, on the banks of the Haora River near the border with Bangladesh (8) |
| ADAMS | US president whose term saw the XYZ Affair and quasi-war with France (5) |
