Possible Clues:

• Husband's in right disfavour! It makes things harder!
• Metal band's employee listening, I think
• An element of dislike attached to its symbol
• Hard metal
• Coal scuttle, one covered with strange metal
• Platinum metal element, discovered by William Hyde Wollaston in 1804
• Hard metallic element
• Atomic no. 45
• Hard silvery-white metal used in alloys with platinum, Rh
• Silvery metal carrier, one with peculiar surroundings