### Clue: Objection with pressure losing initial support (8)
### Answer: BUTTRESS 
 ### Explanation: Definition: support
A charade of BUT ('objection') plus [s]TRESS ('pressure') minus its first letter ('losing initial'). Yes, the deleted letter is S for '**S**upport', but that would mean that the word was doing double duty, and we don't want that, do we?