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Cologne is this loud with student festivity and shouting? (8)

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I believe the answer is:

fragrant

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'cologne is' is the definition.
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'loud with student festivity and shouting?' is the wordplay.
'loud' becomes 'f' (short for forte - 'loud' in music).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'student festivity' becomes 'rag' (student charity event).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'shouting?' becomes 'rant'.
'f'+'rag'+'rant'='FRAGRANT'

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(Other definitions for fragrant that I've seen before include "Pleasantly smelling" , "Sweet scented" , "Sweet-scented" , "Sweet smelling" , "Aromatic" .)

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