Scottish politician sets aside time for theatre worker (7)
I believe the answer is:
surgeon
'theatre worker' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'scottish politician sets aside time' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'time' could be 'eon' (eon is a kind of time) and 'eon' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for surgeon that I've seen before include "Doctor with a scalpel" , "Medical operator" , "9 practitioner (through keyhole?)" , "Operating medical practitioner" , "incisive person" .)