Concerning soldier working with vacuous admiral described as parochial? (8)
I believe the answer is:
regional
'parochial?' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'concerning soldier working with vacuous admiral' is the wordplay.
'concerning' becomes 're' (both can mean on a particular topic).
'soldier' becomes 'GI' (term for US soldier).
'working' becomes 'on' (e.g. a machine is working or on).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'vacuous' suggests removing the centre.
'admiral' with its middle taken out is 'al'.
're'+'gi'+'on'+'al'='REGIONAL'
'described as' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for regional that I've seen before include "Territorial" , "of the district" , "Relating to local area" , "Relating to a specific area of the country" , "From a geographical area" .)