American prosecutor gets copper brought into service in capital city (8)
I believe the answer is:
damascus
'capital city' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'american prosecutor gets copper brought into service' is the wordplay.
'american prosecutor' becomes 'da' (District Attorney. I am not sure about the 'american' bit.).
'gets' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'copper' becomes 'Cu' (chemical symbol).
'brought into' is an insertion indicator.
'service' becomes 'mass' (religious service).
'cu' going within 'mass' is 'mascus'.
'da'+'mascus'='DAMASCUS'
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for damascus that I've seen before include "Couple" , "Pauline conversion on the road to here" , "capital city" , "Syrian capital" , "Middle East capital" .)