I'm thinking of a word that rhymes with "free"

Due to my recent departure from theater, with numerous turns in the
Lands of Iraq and Afghanistan, Crambo is thinking of "free" at last.

I've never seen such an accumulation of broken rock fragments at the base of crags, mountain cliffs, or valley shoulders.

That French statue in New York harbour?

#2: Careful! There might be an avalanche coming, for scree is an omen that
Wandering rocks might be tumbling down from the mountainous pinnacle.

Not: scree

#3: Funny you mention the Statue of Liberty; I'm in Manhattan for
Training so haven't returned to my regular home, though I'm hoping to.

Not: liberty, scree

Well, it's certainly not you.

I’ve been shopping and, so far, I’ve bought 3 pairs of shoes, 1 pair of boots, a new winter coat, gloves, a swimsuit, assorted lotions & potions, a theatre subscription, a cemetery plot, 37 books and a partridge in a pear tree! I think I’ll take a little break and have a glass of white wine while I check my list to see what else I need.

(two guesses)

#6: True, for the word isn't me, and it's also not you, yet it couldn't be
Nobody, could it? Unless it appears that I'm simply not seeing it.
#7: What an acquisitive spree! And you clearly deserve to relax with a
Glass of chablis, though myself, I prefer my wine dark, such as burgundy.

Not: chablis, liberty, me, scree, spree

Dactylic heaxameter! An epic voyage. Were you away for ten years?

I could get me to a convent, but that would be rather the opposite of free, wouldn't it?

A "Roman a clef is a sort
Of "__ __ __ " ;novel. You ort
To know that much Parisian
And get of the Crambo Word a vision

I'm going away. I shall spend my time sitting beneath Yggdrasil, wondering if I will bump into Adam or Eve or a stray serpent.

(I really AM going away for a week, so if I've guessed successfully, there will be a hiatus...!)

#11, 12, 10: Let us begin in the middle: it isn't a key or a tree, and in
Flashback we'll say that the mystery word also wasn't a nunnery.
#9: Rodney, an erudite classical scholar, is right on the money with
Odyssey, leaving me free to abandon dactylic hexameter.

Crambo's word was odyssey, which as Rodney noted was clued by the use of dactylic hexameter and the theme of a man returning from war but getting sidetracked on an island before reaching home (likewise true in my case). Other hints were the Wandering Rocks, wine-dark, "Nobody" blinding Polyphemos, and "numerous turns" as a nod to Odysseus' epithet πολύτροπος.

Well done, Rodney, and over to you.

Thanks Buck - I'm continually envious of the sophistication of your clues, and my attempts to emulate them seem a bit naff.

A more prosaic effort is over here