Being romantic and madly nostalgic about university (10)
I believe the answer is:
osculating
'being romantic' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are present participle verbs, I can't understand how one could define the other.
'madly nostalgic about university' is the wordplay.
'madly' indicates an anagram.
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'university' becomes 'U' (abbreviation for university).
'nostalgic' with letters rearranged gives 'osclating'.
'osclating' going around 'u' is 'OSCULATING'.
'and' is the link.
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