Alter formats of academic area (9)
I believe the answer is:
staffroom
'academic area' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether this works.
'alter formats of' is the wordplay.
'alter' is an anagram indicator.
'formats'+'of'='formatsof'
'formatsof' is an anagram of 'STAFFROOM'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for staffroom that I've seen is " Teachers' haven!".)
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