National worry about keeping current subsides (9)
I believe the answer is:
taiwanese
'national' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'worry about keeping current subsides' is the wordplay.
'worry' becomes 'eat' (something worrying may eat someone up).
'about' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'keeping' indicates putting letters inside (some letters kept inside).
'current' becomes 'I' (symbol for electric current).
'subsides' becomes 'wanes' (I've seen this in another clue).
'eat' written backwards gives 'tae'.
'i'+'wanes'='iwanes'
'tae' placed around 'iwanes' is 'TAIWANESE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for taiwanese that I've seen before include "Oriental type" , "Islander" , "Chinese" , "Eg, native to Taipei" , "oriental in character" .)