| APPLECORE | Find application made by the French, at heart, kind of seedy? |
| OATS | Announced Oscar: Tango's kind of seedy (4) |
| OATY | Announced Oscar: Tango's kind of seedy (4) |
| GATEHOUSE | Building heat - go off to find application (9) |
| ROUGHCAST | Superficial application made by players after water shortage discovered (9) |
| EYESHADOW | Face application made by watch dog |
| HESSLE | She's confused by the French at the eastern end of the Yorkshire Wolds Way (6) |
| CLERGY | Cloth cape used by the French at rugby, oddly |
| LEGACY | Left behind and resettled, for example, by the French at country borders |
| INMOTION | Popular application made to judge is moving (2,6) |
| WOLFE | British Army Major-General remembered chiefly for his victory over the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec in 1759, in which he was killed (5,5) |
| JAMES | British Army Major-General remembered chiefly for his victory over the French at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec in 1759, in which he was killed (5,5) |
| SHRIVEN | Confessed in front of seedy hotel by the 24D, say, almost at its source (7) |
| PHU | In 1954 Ho Chi Minh's forces defeated the French at the Battle of Dien Bien ... |
| REDEEMABLE | Perhaps beer made by the French can be saved (10) |
| LAYOUT | Plan made by the French youngster, hours having been spent (6) |
| INGLE | Gin made by the French in a fireplace (5) |
| BANGLE | Loud noise made by the French anklet (6) |
| ANGOLA | An advance made by the French republic in Africa (6) |
| ECLAIR | Cake made by the French using rice (6) |
