Possible Clues:

• State is probing established writer
• Opponents speak over first writer
• Lamb possibly filling pies, say, is tasty
• Lamb for one? Yes, as it's cooked
• Emerson, for instance
• Writer of pieces on various subjects
• Report is entrusted to established writer
• Dashes off a lot for the paper arriving ahead of the rest
• Writer shot — in situ, oddly
• Writer's block not beginning to block phrase