dt 25478

[Escutcheon]

14A Official compels Iran, losing head, tochange (10).
It's an anagram *M*E*****(?I if 8D is PHLYCTIA.
Thanks.

[kayakamina]

14a Impersonal....anag (c)ompels Iran

[slaney]

Impersonal...anag of "compels Iran" without the "c"

[Escutcheon]

Thanks both - my brain, befuddled with a current cold hadn' t quite got around to the mundane! It was trying to find some sort of foreign panjandrum.
I,ll have to find a different anagram for 8D now.

[miff wrights]

Patchily?