| THEOLD | Those elderly figures of scorn went to France in 1914 (3,3,13) |
| CONTEMPTIBLES | Those elderly figures of scorn went to France in 1914 (3,3,13) |
| OLDCONTEMPTIBLES | Nickname for the British Expeditionary Force to France in 1914 (3,13) |
| SIXTY | Elderly figure in a filthy place (5) |
| ALSACE | Region of north-east France (3,200 sq miles; pop 2 million), ceded back to France in 1919 (6) |
| SOIL | 2,024 grams of it were collected from ancient Olympia and sent to France in anticipation of the Olympics |
| OAKTREE | Before escaping to France in 1651, in what did Charles II spend some time hiding? (3,4) |
| CALLERS | Visitors go to France in large numbers (7) |
| BRIEF | Cheese linked to France in short (5) |
| NICE | Large city on the Riviera, ceded by Sardinaia to France in 1860 (4) |
| ALSACELORRAINE | Former German territory ceded to France in 1920 (6-8) |
| FRANKS | Stamps - they first came to France in the fourth century (6) |
| ALLY | Great Britain to France, in both World Wars (4) |
| GLENNMILLER | US bandleader who composed Moonlight Serenade and who disappeared during a flight from England to France in 1944 (5,6) |
| DERISORY | Is nothing in part of Northern Ireland worthy of scorn? (8) |
| SCORPION | Pio in the midst of scorn has a sting in his tail (8) |
| SILENCE | "The most perfect expression of scorn," according to George Bernard Shaw |
| SNEER | Direct the course of - Expression of scorn (5) |
| DISDAIN | Feeling of scorn in ads I'd revamped (7) |
| MOCKED | Being the object of scorn in a simple dress, but topless (6) |
