Cologne this loud with student festivity and shouting? (8)
I believe the answer is:
fragrant
'cologne' is the definition.
The definition and answer are not the same part of speech.
'loud with student festivity and shouting?' is the wordplay.
'loud' becomes 'f' (short for forte - 'loud' in music).
'with' is a charade indicator (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'
'this' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for fragrant that I've seen before include "bouquet" , "smelling nice" , "Pleasantly smelly?" , "Perfumed" , "Sweet-smelling" .)