Possible Clues:

• Tanned
• Prize for third daughter looking tanned
• 12 across bread crusts about right, 11 in the boulangerie?
• Suntanned
• Eleanor, perhaps the last character to get sun-tanned
• Medal had finally darkened in the sun
• Like many beachgoers
• Nicely tan
• Nicely sunburned with coppery colour
• Deeply tan