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Delightful university science getting stuck into transmigration of soul (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

luscious

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'delightful' is the definition.
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'university science getting stuck into transmigration of soul' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'university' could be 'ou' and 'ou' is located in the answer.
'science' could be 'sci' (eg in 'poli sci' for political science) and 'sci' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for luscious that I've seen before include "Juicy" , "Richly sweet" , "'Delicious, scrumptious (8)'" , "Pleasingly rich and sweet" , "Highly attractive, tasty" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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