1d Piece of armour skirt at first repels weapon ??S??
2d Chinese direct current about river vehicle ??N??AR
14a Obsolete publication actions promoting disorder ???T??N ... i can see scotian would be an anagram of actions??
Thanks for any help
Thanks bibblebub - I omitted to say that some of the clues have an extra letter in the wordplay so that "S" would be the extra there and the clue then works!
Thanks again1