...to skip Australian guitarist, Moss - a statesman (10)
I believe the answer is:
missourian
'statesman' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'to skip australian guitarist moss a' is the wordplay.
'to skip' becomes 'miss' (I've seen this in another clue).
'australian guitarist moss' becomes 'ouri' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a' becomes 'an'.
'miss'+'ouri'+'an'='MISSOURIAN'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for missourian that I've seen is " American".)