Raw rice distributed by flight attendants (7)
I believe the answer is:
aircrew
'flight attendants' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both groups as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'raw rice distributed' is the wordplay.
'distributed' is an anagram indicator.
'raw'+'rice'='rawrice'
'rawrice' anagrammed gives 'AIRCREW'.
'by' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for aircrew that I've seen before include "flyers" , "Flight staff" , "Craft workers" , "Pilot, co-pilot, etc" , "Staff manning a plane" .)