Newspaper airs bits and bobs (8)
I believe the answer is:
sundries
'bobs' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'newspaper airs bits' is the wordplay.
'newspaper' becomes 'sun' (UK newspaper The Sun).
'airs bits' becomes 'dries' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'sun'+'dries'='SUNDRIES'
'and' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sundries that I've seen before include "Miscellaneous unspecified things" , "Odds and ends" , "range of items" , "Various small items" , "Miscellaneous objects, stuff" .)