Craft of, say, steel pan player finally accepted (9)
I believe the answer is:
metalwork
'craft of' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'steel pan player finally accepted' is the wordplay.
'steel' becomes 'metal' (steel is a metal).
'pan' becomes 'wok' (wok is a kind of pan).
'finally' indicates one should take the final letters.
'accepted' indicates putting letters inside.
The final letter of 'player' is 'r'.
'wok' placed around 'r' is 'work'.
'metal'+'work'='METALWORK'
'say' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for metalwork that I've seen before include "processing of gold maybe" , "Creative manipulation of iron, tin etc" , "Objects of gold, iron, copper etc" , "school subject, once" .)