Educational aid Mecca distributed (8)
I believe the answer is:
academic
'educational' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'aid mecca distributed' is the wordplay.
'distributed' is an anagram indicator.
'aid'+'mecca'='aidmecca'
'aidmecca' anagrammed gives 'ACADEMIC'.
(Other definitions for academic that I've seen before include "Scholar - of no practical importance" , "Scholarly; irrelevant" , "of educational kind" , "University lecturer" , "Unimportant" .)