Palace a pushover? Withdraw article to show respect (8)
I believe the answer is:
courtesy
'respect' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'palace a pushover? withdraw article' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'palace' could be 'court' (court can mean a royal palace) and 'court' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'to show' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for courtesy that I've seen before include "Polite behaviour" , "Civility, politeness" , "good breeding" , "Good manners" , "Politeness and respect for others" .)