Heavily cover entertaining newspaper column (8)
I believe the answer is:
pilaster
'column' is the definition.
(I know that pilaster is a type of column)
'heavily cover entertaining newspaper' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'newspaper' could be 'i' (the i is a British newspaper) and 'i' is found in the answer.
'cover' could be 'plaster' (plastering is a kind of covering) and 'plaster' is present in the remaining letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for pilaster that I've seen before include "Piles tar into a form of column" , "Rectangular column support projecting slightly from a wall" , "Decorative column standing out from the fa?ade of a building" , "Rectangular column projected from wall" , "Square column" .)