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Drunk seamen screening Ken Loach film are coherent (4,5)

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make sense

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'are coherent' is the definition.
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'drunk seamen screening ken loach film' is the wordplay.
'drunk' indicates anagramming the letters.
'screening' means one lot of letters goes inside another (inserted letters are covered or screened by others).
'ken loach film' becomes 'Kes'.
'seamen' is an anagram of 'maense'.
'maense' placed around 'kes' is 'MAKE SENSE'.

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(Other definitions for make sense that I've seen before include "Slaughterhouse" , "Be understandable or practicable - it's logical" , "Be intelligible" , "Add up" , "Be rational" .)

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