Cryptic crossword clue
Poetic creature’s ‘Boat Poles’ taking first place 5

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SNARK

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What does SNARK mean?

SNARK noun
  1. Snide remarks.
SNARK verb
  1. To express oneself in a snarky fashion.
  2. To snort.
SNARK noun
  1. A graph in which every node has three branches, and the edges cannot be coloured in fewer than four colours without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point.
  2. A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment.

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