Think I'm going to need a bit more being becalmed and befuddled than that, Ixion, but thank you. The clues are "Politician with right appearance that is in bookshop would beam for writer".
I remember it now - I got stuck on the 'writer' part, I was looking for a name. It's more another word for writer, as in the creator of a report, the first version of something.
21ac - i think the definition is element's but I have t-b-a-
An s needs to be added but I can only come up with stibial. Yet the element is stibium.
Can anyone shed some light?