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University involved in European veto over a lecturer regarding part of speech (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nounal

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'university involved in european veto' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.

'over a lecturer regarding part of speech' is the wordplay.
'over' means one lot of letters go next to another (in a down clue, some letters go over others).
'lecturer' becomes 'l' (abbreviation for lecturer).
'regarding part of speech' becomes 'noun' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'a'+'l'='al'
'al' put after 'noun' is 'NOUNAL'.

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(Another definition for nounal that I've seen is " Like name".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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