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Very serious complaint about student frolics (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tragic

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'very serious' is the definition.

'complaint about student frolics' is the wordplay.
'complaint' becomes 'tic' (a tic is a medical complaint).
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'student frolics' becomes 'rag' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'tic' going around 'rag' is 'TRAGIC'.

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(Other definitions for tragic that I've seen before include "like King Lear" , "Very sad; Schubert's 4th symphony nickname" , "Characterised by extreme distress or sorrow" , "Extremely sad and distressing" , "Resulting in great loss" .)

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