As usual, the total includes heads of young people in charge (9)
I believe the answer is:
typically
'as usual' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adverbs. Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'total includes heads of young people in charge' is the wordplay.
'total' becomes 'tally' (synonyms).
'includes' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'heads of' suggests taking the first letters.
'in charge' becomes 'ic' (abbreviation for 'in charge').
The initial letters of 'young people' is 'yp'.
'yp'+'ic'='ypic'
'tally' placed around 'ypic' is 'TYPICALLY'.
'the' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for typically that I've seen before include "In characteristic style" , "Ordinarily" , "Characteristically" , "As a characteristic example" .)