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Cool wind after dark in Florence, say (11)

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I believe the answer is:

nightingale

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'florence say' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot see how they can define each other.

'cool wind after dark' is the wordplay.
'cool' becomes 'in' ('in' can mean fashionable or cool).
'wind' becomes 'gale' (gale is a kind of wind).
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'dark' becomes 'night' (it's dark at nighttime).
'in'+'gale'='ingale'
'ingale' after 'night' is 'NIGHTINGALE'.

'in' is the link.

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(Other definitions for nightingale that I've seen before include "Bird noted for its song" , "one tweets" , "Bird - famous nurse" , "Singer appearing every season" , "Migratory songbird" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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