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College town where revolutionary jazz tricky to hum (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dartmouth

'college town' is the definition.
(home of the Britannia Royal Naval College)

'revolutionary jazz tricky to hum' is the wordplay.
'revolutionary' is a reversal indicator.
'jazz' becomes 'trad' (trad jazz is a type of jazz).
'tricky' indicates an anagram.
'trad' reversed gives 'dart'.
'to'+'hum'='tohum'
'tohum' with letters rearranged gives 'mouth'.
'dart'+'mouth'='DARTMOUTH'

'where' is the link.

(Other definitions for dartmouth that I've seen before include "Devon town" , "Devon resort" , "port" , "Location of Britannia Royal Naval College" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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