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There's no cream in Latin America for the Neapolitan (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

italian

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'neapolitan' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'there's no cream in latin america for the' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'there's' could be 'n' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'n' is present in the answer.
'latin' could be 'l' and 'l' is located in the answer.
'america' could be 'a' (common abbreviation - e.g. in organisation names) and 'a' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for italian that I've seen before include "Neapolitan, for example" , "From Naples or Turin, perhaps?" , "European language" , "Is Ali anti, strangely, this nationality?" , "Like Puccini" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times (Crosaire) and the Irish Times.
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