Almost solely arranged by the college head (7)

I believe the answer is:

closely

'almost' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'solely arranged by the college head' is the wordplay.
'arranged' indicates anagramming the letters.
'by' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'the college head' becomes 'c' (I've seen this in other clues).
'solely' with letters rearranged gives 'losely'.
'losely' put after 'c' is 'CLOSELY'.

(Another definition for closely that I've seen is " Fruit machine".)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.

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