FOUR (thematic) [grain = 'f[l]our' wasting 'l']
heREIN[minus 'he'] (thematic).
'wins' is the extra word, hankir.
['not so'] soLENT (thematic).
rearRANGE (thematic).
Thanks Captain2,ProfessorM, Ros.
tedsgran, I also have the first two perimter words in French but no idea what the rest is yet. I hope the whole perimeter is not French.
2,4,6,7 (the last two words are what you'd do out loud, thematically).
If you put LENT into 'Google Translate' (on the French side) it'll give you the def written in English in that clue.
Thanks ProfessorM and Ros.
Got the quote, speaker and location. Also year. Now to find 12 words in French.
Found the 4 extra words that give the speaker.