Possible Clues:

• Work steadily at drama, article being rejected
• Work? The opposite, as a Cockney might say
• Use or wield, tool or weapon
• Tissue part
• To be a trader, am more than enough like this
• Paper-tissue feature
• Work steadily at Devon port - but not at the entrance
• Habitually sail over layer of rock
• Tissue layer, e.g.
• Two- -- (double-layer)