Take kit off a French fool heroically ended at front (8)
I believe the answer is:
unclothe
'take kit' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with ownership as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'a french fool heroically ended at front' is the wordplay.
'a french' becomes 'un' ('a' in French).
'fool' becomes 'clot' (I've seen this in other clues).
'at front' indicates taking the first letters.
The initial letters of 'heroically ended' is 'he'.
'un'+'clot'+'he'='UNCLOTHE'
'off' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for unclothe that I've seen before include "lay bare" , "Strip (someone)" , "set garments aside" , "shed" , "Reveal" .)