Travelling detectives about to return, pursuing French name (7)

Independent Cryptic #11996 | 17 Across | 2025-03-21
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

CID (abbreviation for Criminal Investigation Department = detectives) + A (I’m not sure in what context “a” is used to mean “about”, but it’s in Chambers), all reversed (to return), after NOM (French for “name”).

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