### Clue: Likable general speaking after pressure to confess (8)
### Answer: PLEASING 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Likable
 [**Homophone of**(… speaking) "Lee"(Robert E., Confederate general during the American Civil War) **placed after**(after) P(symbol for "pressure" in physics)] **plus**(to) SING(slang for "to confess").