Reformist leaders of local unit nervous around a certain regiment (8)
I believe the answer is:
lutheran
'reformist' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'leaders of local unit nervous around a certain regiment' is the wordplay.
'leaders of' says to take the initial letters.
'around' indicates putting letters inside.
'a certain' becomes 'the' (definite article - refers to a certain object).
'regiment' becomes 'RA' (Royal Artillery).
The first letters of 'local unit nervous' is 'lun'.
'the'+'ra'='thera'
'lun' enclosing 'thera' is 'LUTHERAN'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for lutheran that I've seen before include "Of the Protestant Reformation" , "German Protestant" , "it could be Bach" , "Type of Protestant" , "Protestant church member" .)