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Temporarily quiet, party talk loudly about first of members (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

dormant

'temporarily quiet' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'party talk loudly about first of members' is the wordplay.
'party' becomes 'do' (do is a kind of party).
'talk loudly' becomes 'rant'.
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'first of members' becomes 'm' (1st letter of 'members').
'rant' going around 'm' is 'rmant'.
'do'+'rmant'='DORMANT'

(Other definitions for dormant that I've seen before include "Suspended" , "In deep sleep" , "Latent" , "Sleeping or inactive, say volcano" , "Mordant about lying inactive" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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