Profitable cricket side entertained by English stand-up? (8)
I believe the answer is:
economic
'profitable' is the definition.
('economic' can be similar in meaning to 'profitable')
'cricket side entertained by english stand-up?' is the wordplay.
'cricket side' becomes 'on'.
'entertained by' is an insertion indicator (I've seen this in other clues).
'english' becomes 'e' (abbreviation).
'stand-up?' becomes 'comic' (I've seen this before).
'e'+'comic'='ecomic'
'on' inserted into 'ecomic' is 'ECONOMIC'.
(Other definitions for economic that I've seen before include "system of money" , "Sparing with resources or money" , "(Likely to be) profitable" , "Justified in terms of profitability" , "Sparing in the use of resources" .)