Possible Clues:

• Gentle comfort, unloading a weight
• Newspapers may rue having to apply it
• Stressful urgency
• Confused reps for certain feel the squeeze
• Higgins quickly decided this might be atmospheric
• Word with "air" or "atmospheric"
• Journalists almost certain to be under this?
• So the newspapers might get to rue putting the screw on
• Billy Joel hit that begins 'You'll have to learn to pace yourself'
• Word with blood or water