Winning woman with small son outside cricket club (7)
I believe the answer is:
success
'winning' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'woman with small son outside cricket club' is the wordplay.
'woman' becomes 'sue' (woman's name).
'with small' becomes 's' (abbreviation - e.g. clothes size. I am not sure about the 'with' bit.).
'son' becomes 's' (genealogical abbreviation for son).
'outside' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters go outside others).
'cricket club' becomes 'cc' (cricketing abbreviation).
'sue'+'s'+'s'='suess'
'suess' enclosing 'cc' is 'SUCCESS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for success that I've seen before include "Nothing succeeds like it" , "Victory - prosperity" , "A win" , "It breeds itself, it's said" , "Winning result" .)