Car fans excitedly describing current Continentals? (8)

I believe the answer is:

africans

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'continentals?' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'car fans excitedly describing current' is the wordplay.
'excitedly' indicates an anagram (letters excited or stimulated into a new form).
'describing' is an insertion indicator (describe can mean to form the outline of).
'current' becomes 'I' (symbol for electric current).
'car'+'fans'='carfans'
'carfans' with letters rearranged gives 'afrcans'.
'afrcans' enclosing 'i' is 'AFRICANS'.

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(Another definition for africans that I've seen is " Libyans?".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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