The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SAPPHO
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result SAPPHO
- Poet’s program hard to break into in this way
- Drain soup for old poet
- Greek poetess with an aversion to fools erasing name on biro?
- Has to keep very quiet about love poet
- Poet, idiot, potty about Helen principally?
- Originally, such a poet penned homosexual odes
- Fool meets local love poetry writer
- Ancient Greek female has pop disturbed
- Poet‘s to make weak noodle soup
- Poet thus keeps mostly happy, animated within
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "Originally, such a poet penned homosexual odes" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case originally, such a poet penned homosexual odes = sappho.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.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.