A doctor goes round the French scene of a massacre (5)
I believe the answer is:
alamo
'scene of a massacre' is the definition.
'alamo' can be an answer for 'massacre' (I've seen this before). I'm not sure about the 'scene of a' bit.
'a doctor goes round the french' is the wordplay.
'doctor' becomes 'mo' (medical officer).
'goes round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'the french' becomes 'la' ('the' in French).
'a'+'mo'='amo'
'amo' enclosing 'la' is 'ALAMO'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for alamo that I've seen before include "1836 massacre at a San Antonio, Texas mission" , "Fort in San Antonio, once famously besieged" , "historical Franciscan mission" , "national monument" , "The red planet" .)