| CHASSEUR | Fighting crushes a French soldier (8) |
| PRALINES | Sweets named for a French soldier whose cook was the inventor |
| CANTEEN | Word for what started as a humble Latin "corner", later referred to an Italian wine cellar, then a French soldier's bottle case, provision shop or sutlery, and now a box of cutlery, camper's water fla |
| TETEDEPONT | A bridgehead, to a French soldier |
| ROSETTASTONE | It was unearthed by a French soldier in July 1799 |
| POILU | A French soldier given backup when carrying fuel (5) |
| KEPI | Hat for a French soldier |
| CYRANODE | French soldier who is the subject of a highly successful play by Edmond Rostand (6,2,8) |
| BERGERAC | French soldier who is the subject of a highly successful play by Edmond Rostand (6,2,8) |
| HACKNEYS | Carriages with horses for conveying French soldier (8) |
| SURGICAL | On French soldier, state of an operation (8) |
| BARRACKS | Building(s) housing military personnel; from Italian or Spanish via French, 'soldier's tent' (8) |
| NAPOLEON | French soldier/emperor |
| DEGAULLE | French soldier, politician and airport (2,6) |
| BONEYARD | Mount with French soldier buried in cemetery |
| CLEMENCY | Caught by the French soldiers, clearly heartless, but getting mercy |
| MILLER | He crushes a number in French Resistance (6) |
| SWATS | Crushes a fly with a sharp blow / hits hard and abruptly |
| PYTHON | Snake that crushes ... a White Acres snake lake (6) |
| PESTLE | It crushes a bunch of limpest lettuces (6) |
