Last blokes to accept attention and bit of touching affectionate banter (10)
I believe the answer is:
endearment
'bit of touching affectionate banter' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot see how one could define the other.
'last blokes to accept attention' is the wordplay.
'last' becomes 'end' (I've seen this in another clue).
'blokes' becomes 'ment' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to accept' is an insertion indicator.
'attention' becomes 'ear' (having someone's ear is having their attention).
'end'+'ment'='endment'
'endment' enclosing 'ear' is 'ENDEARMENT'.
'and' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for endearment that I've seen before include "Affectionate utterance" , "Pet name" , "Affectionate term" , "Expression of love" , "Love, maybe" .)