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Animated, showing nerve, effects reform (12)

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I believe the answer is:

effervescent

'animated' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'nerve effects reform' is the wordplay.
'reform' is an anagram indicator.
'nerve'+'effects'='nerveeffects'
'nerveeffects' is an anagram of 'EFFERVESCENT'.

'showing' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for effervescent that I've seen before include "Sparkling" , "Fizzy" , "Bubbly" .)

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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