Writing material getting no spill, record protected (9)
I believe the answer is:
notepaper
'writing material' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'record protected' is the wordplay.
'record' becomes 'note' (note is a kind of record).
'protected' becomes 'paper' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'note'+'paper'='NOTEPAPER'
'getting no spill' acts as a link.
This may not be right. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for notepaper that I've seen before include "Letter-writing sheet" , "Correspondence on this" , "perhaps, a contributor to writer's block" , "What a correspondent may use" , "Whereon Handel may have written" .)