It’s a puzzling clue. I would be tempted to say CYNARA. She was a beautiful lover of Zeus in Greek mythology, who turned her into an artichoke after she “betrayed” him. And it’s an anagram of Canary. Fashionable might therefore do double duty, as an anagrind and as a description of what Zeus did to her. It’s my best guess ...
Araucaria odds and sods.
Girl, French one? Precisely (4)
FIFI so we have FI but why does the precisely mean we have FI again? Anything to do with FI as in Fidelity? Doesn't sound very Araucarian!
As well as being a girl’s name, in French fifi is a generic term for ‘girl’, though it’s written fifille as far as I know and pronounced fee-fee.
Not sure if this is the intended reference ?
The way I see it, FI is a girl, diminutive of Fiona. Add F (French) + I (one) and you get FIFI, which is a French girl’s name. So the precisely indicates what you end up with.
The last crossword in my rather large pile of oldies is from The Independent On Sunday June 1990.
Centrally located in place, one marking the cross is ANKH, and I assume we want a place name where the middle 4 letters are ANKH