Pleasant setting for the national team? (11)
I believe the answer is:
countryside
'pleasant setting' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'national team?' is the wordplay.
'national' becomes 'country' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'team?' becomes 'side' (both can mean a sports team).
'country'+'side'='COUNTRYSIDE'
'for the' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for countryside that I've seen before include "The green and pleasant part of our land" , "Turned so icy (anag.)" , "Rural area" , "Rural areas" .)