| NANTES | A port in northwestern France, at the head of the Loire estuary (6) |
| HAIFA | A port in northwestern Israel on the Bay of Acre. |
| AKKA | A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean. |
| AKKO | A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean. |
| EVREUX | Industrial town in northwestern France severely damaged in the Second World War (6) |
| ICIEST | Here in France at the outset it's most cold (6) |
| PEBBLE | Soft fade to the banks of the Loire with a little smooth rock (6) |
| GATEAU | Foodstuff consumed in most of France at one time (6) |
| ACADIA | North American territory of France at one time, that included part of Quebec (6) |
| BRETON | Native of northwestern France |
| PETAIN | Henri, French marshal who led the pro-Nazi government of unoccupied France at Vichy from 1940-44 (6) |
| ALLIER | A left tributary of the Loire (6) |
| CHARTRES | The oldest parts of this Gothic cathedral in northwestern France are its crypt and the west portal, or Royal Portal, which are remnants of a Romanesque church that was mostly destroyed by fire in 1194 |
| PERCIVALMOLSON | Honoured Member of Canada's Sports hall of Fame killed in WWI in France at the age of 36. The Alouettes' home field is named in his honour: 2 wds. |
| CREPES | Traditional food served in France at Candlemas (6) |
| JOURNO | Spend day in France at Anjou regularly with one working for local paper |
| NAZAIRE | St. ___, port in France at the mouth of the River Loire (7) |
| HENRYTHEEIGHTH | English monarch who met Francis I of France at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520 |
| QUIMPER | Capital of the Finistere department in NW France, at the confluence of the Odet and Steir rivers (7) |
| LEHAVRE | Port in N France at the mouth of the River Seine (2,5) |
