three stuck ons today
24a woman in power once, aEuropean, the old throwback in the news -n--/---e--
3d selection of dishes of bland Greek character, pungency repressed t---i-g/-e-o
12d a hot suave libertine is enticing to begin with somewhere in France I've got Haute, I think but "massif" doesn't fit. Is "haute" right?
Could anyone please parse the 24 ac clue. I got the solution through YE LOB ('the old throwback') but struggled to make much sense of the rest of the clue. TIA.