Students attending here in auditorium hoovered up? (5)
I believe the answer is:
eaten
'up?' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'students attending here in auditorium hoovered' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'attending' could be 'at' (e.g. at school means attending school) and 'at' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'een' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for eaten that I've seen before include "Upset" , "This bread is soon forgotten, it's said" , "having taken courses?" , "absorbed in the system" , "Polished off" .)