The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word ORBS
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More clues leading to the result ORBS
- Love’s about romantic bliss primarily in a poet’s eyes
- Heavenly bodies in type of blood bank
- Old Scottish bank has eyes for poet
- Spherical objects in old Scottish bank
- Balls trapped by Middlesbrough man, centre-back?
- Circles of gold on empty bus
- British Standard applied to Golden Globes
- Balls or bullshit
- They look round for bears without fear
- Balls giving nothing to state-owned bank
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The straight part
We know that "a poet’s eyes" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case a poet’s eyes = orbs.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does ORBS mean?
ORBS noun- A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
- One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions
- A circle; especially, a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit
- A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.
- The eye, as luminous and spherical
- A revolving circular body; a wheel
- A sphere of action.
- A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal power
- A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography (Orb (optics))
- A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
- A blank window or panel.