Showing impudence, criticise cooking vessel (8)
I believe the answer is:
saucepan
'cooking vessel' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'showing impudence criticise' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'impudence' could be 'sauce' (I've seen this before) and 'sauce' is found in the answer.
'criticise' could be 'pan' (informal term meaning to criticise heavily) and 'pan' is found within the answer.
No letters remain.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for saucepan that I've seen before include "pot-boiler?" , "kitchenware" , "Kitchen utensil" , "kitchen item" , "Kitchen vessel" .)