National average inspiring cricket team, hundred following (7)
I believe the answer is:
mexican
'national' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'average inspiring cricket team hundred following' is the wordplay.
'average' becomes 'mean' (type of average).
'inspiring' indicates putting letters inside.
'cricket team' becomes 'XI' (a cricket team, from Roman numerals for 11).
'hundred' becomes 'c' (Roman numeral).
'following' says to put letters next to each other.
'xi'+'c'='xic'
'mean' going around 'xic' is 'MEXICAN'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for mexican that I've seen before include "Latin" , "From Guadalajara or Acapulco?" , "From Chihuahua, perhaps" , "A central American" .)