| GENETICIST | Mendel, perhaps, was the first French writer here in French street (10) |
| INAIDOF | For poetical work on reflection, an author here performs parts (2,3,2) |
| CLASSIC | Control's head girl, 99 perhaps, was the standard model (7) |
| UNCLE | Software engineer Bob, perhaps, was the man from 1960s US spy show? (5) |
| NEWFANGLED | What emerged after teething troubles perhaps was in vanguard of the ultramodern (10) |
| FORETS | Departement of the French First Republic, and later the First French Empire, whose capital was Luxembourg City |
| ROLLET | New France... Marie ___ (In 1617, she became the first French woman to settle in Quebec City where there is a statue of her today) |
| TRAVEL | The first French composer to go abroad perhaps |
| PAVON | Matthieu _, the first French golfer to win on the modern PGA Tour (5) |
| SYLVESTER | Adopted name of three popes, including Gerbert of Aurillac, the first French holder of the office (999-1003) (9) |
| TROUSSEAU | The first French painter to produce things for a bride (9) |
| URFE | Honore d'-; author whose 17th-century pastoral L'Astree is considered the first French novel (4) |
| TILE | The first French island with slate e.g. (4) |
| AGOUTI | August the 1st, French government brought in American guinea pig |
| DEPARTMENTSTORE | Went shopping here in French district after finding gold on the street |
| LACOSTE | Winner of the first French Open |
| JERICHO | First French person was wealthy but got nothing in the Palestinian city (7) |
| GALLICISE | Get more French impertinence here in French home counties? (9) |
| DEVILSISLAND | Site of a penal colony here in French Guiana featured in Henri Charriere's memoir Papillon |
| EXOFFICIO | Previously on holiday here, in French circle by virtue of job (2,7) |
