Specialist caught in China let off (9)
I believe the answer is:
technical
'specialist' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'caught in china let off' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'caught' could be 'c' (cricket abbreviation) and 'c' is found in the answer.
an anagram of 'china' is 'hnica' which is located in the answer.
an anagram of 'let' is 'tel' which is within the left over letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for technical that I've seen before include "Industrial" , "- Drawing; - foul" , "relating to a particular craft" , "drawing > fault > college > found after applying rules strictly" , "Expert" .)