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Head may rave madly over a student -- go ballistic here? (4,9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cape canaveral

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'student go ballistic here?' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'head may rave madly over a' is the wordplay.
'head' becomes 'cape' (I've seen this before).
'may' becomes 'can' ('can' can be a synonym of 'may').
'rave madly' becomes 'averl' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'over' is an insertion indicator.
'averl' placed around 'a' is 'averal'.
'cape'+'can'+'averal'='CAPE CANAVERAL'

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(Other definitions for cape canaveral that I've seen before include "Florida space flight centre" , "space reached from here" , "US space launch site" , "US space launch centre" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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