Working times are reduced for distinguished practitioners (7)
I believe the answer is:
maestri
'distinguished practitioners' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'working times are reduced' is the wordplay.
'working' indicates an anagram.
'reduced' means to remove the last letter.
'times'+'are'='timesare'
'timesare' with its final letter removed is 'timesar'.
'timesar' is an anagram of 'MAESTRI'.
'for' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for maestri that I've seen before include "Top conductors" , "Famous conductors" , "leading musicians" , "Experts" , "great musicians" .)