Practised without weakening (4)
I believe the answer is:
neat
'practised' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
I don't understand the remainder of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for neat that I've seen before include "well-kept" , "As whisky may be" , "Finished" , "bull, eg" , "Very good American" .)