| AACHEN | City and spa in Germany whose French name is Aix-la-Chapelle |
| ULM | City in Germany whose Gothic Minster has the world's highest spire (3) |
| NATO | Defense org. whose French name is its English name in reverse |
| PAPASMURF | Blue cartoon character whose French name is Le Grand Schtrou |
| ALLIER | Department in central France that includes the city and spa resort of Vichy (6) |
| AIXENPROVENCE | City and spa in S.E. France which was the medieval capital of Provence (3-2-8) |
| SAINTE | ___-Chapelle (Paris church) |
| KOLN | German city whose French name gives us a perfume (4) |
| EGRET | A heron whose French name, "aigrette", is used to describe one of said wader's plumes; or, a feathery crown or "clock" of a dandelion (5) |
| LADSLOVE | Aromatic plant known as maid's passion, old man or southernwood and whose French name, garderobe, meaning "clothes-keeper", refers to its use as a moth repellent (4,4) |
| PHNOMPENH | Positive French name is applied to writer in hot, hot Asian city (5,4) |
| AIX | -- -la-Chapelle, French name for Aachen (3) |
| AIXLACHAPELLE | French name for Aachen, a German city and spa (3-2-8) |
| LEIPZIG | Largest city in Saxony, Germany whose university was founded in 1409 (7) |
| KAISERSLAUTERN | City in southwest Germany whose Fritz-Walter-Stadion was used in the 2006 FIFA World Cup |
| CHASSEUR | Sauce whose French name means 'hunter' (8) |
| OBOE | Instrument whose French name, hautbois, meaning "high wood", reflects its pitch compared with related woodwinds including the bassoon (4) |
| PRUSSIA | Former state in N. and central Germany whose capital was Berlin (7) |
| VICHY | Town and spa in central France on the River Allier (5) |
| PARIS | The Palais Bourbon and Chapelle de la Sorbonne city |
