Backing account, criticise Independent in remark (13)
I believe the answer is:
accompaniment
'backing' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'account criticise independent in remark' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'account' could be 'acc' and 'acc' is located in the answer.
'criticise' could be 'pan' (informal term meaning to criticise heavily) and 'pan' is found in the answer.
'independent' could be 'i' and 'i' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for accompaniment that I've seen before include "Something subsidiary that is added" , "Musical support?" , "Music supporting a singer" , "Supporting musical line" , "piece of music to sing to?" .)