The sort of speech that gets reported (8)
I believe the answer is:
indirect
'the sort of speech' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
I don't understand the remainder of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for indirect that I've seen before include "Not following the shortest way" , "Not straight, route say" , "Deviating, not straight" , "In credit, not being straight" , "sort of speech" .)