County academic clutches English volume (5)
I believe the answer is:
devon
'county' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'academic clutches english volume' is the wordplay.
'academic' becomes 'don' (I've seen this before).
'clutches' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'english' becomes 'e' (abbreviation).
'volume' becomes 'v'.
'e'+'v'='ev'
'don' enclosing 'ev' is 'DEVON'.
(Other definitions for devon that I've seen before include "English county" , "Raleigh's county" , "Ilfracombe's county" , "County in southwestern England" , "Clotted-cream county" .)