De-stress worker with sedative (8)
I believe the answer is:
relaxant
'sedative' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'de-stress worker' is the wordplay.
'de-stress' becomes 'relax' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'worker' becomes 'ant' (worker is a type of ant).
'relax'+'ant'='RELAXANT'
'with' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for relaxant that I've seen before include "calmer" , "calming influence" , "Drug reducing rigidity" , "Tension-reducing 21 down" , "tension reliever" .)