French path in South Gironde at first slippery (8)
I believe the answer is:
scheming
'slippery' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'french path in south gironde at first' is the wordplay.
'french path' becomes 'chemin' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'at first' suggests taking the first letters.
The initial letters of 'south gironde' is 'sg'.
'chemin' put into 'sg' is 'SCHEMING'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for scheming that I've seen before include "Plotting secretly" , "Duplicitous" , "Devious" , "far from 10 [WIDE EYED]" , "cunning" .)