| QUIFFS | Who in Paris, France, starts to favour slick tufts of hair? (6) |
| CHERRIES | Fruit that may be dear in France starts to ripen in early summer (8) |
| FORCEFUL | Assertive group of police starts to favour undermining laws (8) |
| AMISS | Friends in France start to sense something is wrong (5) |
| LEEDS | In which city will next month's Tour de France start? (5) |
| ELF | The Spanish start to favour German XI (3) |
| FARANDAWAY | Start to favour a foreign currency on holiday by a wide margin (3,3,4) |
| METRO | A subway system in the city, especially in Paris (France) |
| FEATHERS | Plumes or quills traditionally fitted to arrows by fletchers or used as pens; or, long tufts of hair on the fetlocks of heavy horses (8) |
| CRINITE | In botany, having or resembling tufts of hair (7) |
| AFFENPINSCHER | Small dog, related to the Brussels griffon, which has tufts of hair on its face |
| COMAE | Botany: tufts of hairs attached to the seed coats of some seeds (5) |
| PERFORMANCE | Show capital in Paris, France more exotic |
| LARC | Qatar Prix de _'___ de Triomphe (Horse race in Paris, France) |
| COLAROSSI | Academie ___ (Art school in Paris, France where Canadian painter Emily Carr studied) |
| TOPS | Word for caps, carrot greens, covers, crests, crowns, lids, peaks, T-shirts, tufts of hair, uppers of boots or other highest parts/points (4) |
| FETLOCKS | The tufts of hair above a horse's hoof (8) |
| COWLICKS | What are tufts of hair turned up, usually over the forehead (8) |
| MARMOSET | Monkey with bushy tail and tufts of hair on ears (8) |
| GRIVETS | East African white and green coloured monkeys with tufts of hair beside their faces (7) |
