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Teenager makes smell after beer-drinking party (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

adolescent

'teenager' is the definition.
('adolescent' can be a synonym of 'teenager')

'smell after beer-drinking party' is the wordplay.
'smell' becomes 'scent' (scent is a kind of smell**).
'after' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'beer' becomes 'ale' (I've seen this before).
'drinking' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'party' becomes 'do' (do is a kind of party).
'ale' placed around 'do' is 'adole'.
'scent' after 'adole' is 'ADOLESCENT'.

'makes' is the link.

(Other definitions for adolescent that I've seen before include "Youth" , "Teenage" , "Person in child-adult transition" , "Developing" , "juvenile" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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