The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SCENE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result SCENE
- A lot of Cologne, perhaps has European landscape
- Embarrassing display noticed, we're told
- Tantrum noticed by sound of it
- Picture watched in the auditorium
- Part of play watched in the auditorium
- Embarrassing display observed we hear
- Spot spotted, we hear?
- Part of a play recognised on the radio
- Commotion perceived by ear
- Landscape observed on the radio
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What does SCENE mean?
SCENE noun- The location of an event that attracts attention.
- The stage.
- The decorations; furnishings and backgrounds of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set
- A part of a dramatic work that is set in the same place or time. In the theatre, generally a number of scenes constitute an act.
- The location, time, circumstances, etc., in which something occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is set up
- A combination of objects or events in view or happening at a given moment at a particular place.
- A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
- An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others, creating embarrassment or disruption; often, an artificial or affected action, or course of action, done for effect; a theatrical display
- An element of fiction writing.
- A social environment consisting of an informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere of activity; a subculture.
- To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.