University blocking national memorial? (6)
I believe the answer is:
statue
'memorial?' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'university blocking national' is the wordplay.
'university' becomes 'u'.
'blocking' indicates putting letters inside.
'national' becomes 'state' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'u' inserted within 'state' is 'STATUE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for statue that I've seen before include "Sculpture depicting a person" , "Piece of sculpture" , "Sculptured likeness" , "Astute (anag.)" , "Artistic figure" .)