No need for a graduate's tearful text to be expertly rendered (9)
I believe the answer is:
masterful
'no' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'need for a graduate's tearful text to be expertly rendered' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'a' is found in the answer.
'text' could be 'ms' (short for manuscript) and 'ms' is present in the remaining letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for masterful that I've seen before include "Domineering" , "Authoritative" , "overbearing" , "Having dominating quality" , "expert" .)