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Are such numbers spoken about when there's a racket? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ordinal

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'a racket?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how they can define each other.

'are such numbers spoken about' is the wordplay.
'are such numbers' becomes 'din' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'spoken' becomes 'oral' (similar in meaning).
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'din' put inside 'oral' is 'ORDINAL'.

'when there's' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for ordinal that I've seen before include "First, for One" , "Number in a sequence" , "Of position in series; service book (hist.)" , "Ranking number" , "Denoting a numerical order in a series" .)

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