Oral record supporting two articles in parallel (8)
I believe the answer is:
analogue
'parallel' is the definition.
(I know that parallel can be written as analogue)
'oral record supporting two articles' is the wordplay.
'two articles' means two substitutions for 'article'.
'oral record' becomes 'logue' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'supporting' says to put letters next to each other (in a down clue, some letters go below others).
'article' becomes 'an' (indefinite article).
'article' becomes 'a' (English indefinite article).
'an'+'a'='ana'
'logue' put after 'ana' is 'ANALOGUE'.
'in' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for analogue that I've seen before include "As opposed to digital" , "Something similar in certain respects to another" , "a continuous watch" , "Type of transmission by radio waves without digital conversion" , "Like old TV" .)