The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ORIBI
I've seen this crossword clue in The Times
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More clues leading to the result ORIBI
- Call attracting attention about bone — antelope
- Small antelope in pen recoiling before one
- Poet's eye in the end caught by two antelopes
- Antelope the writer twice brought back
- One pen erected for antelope
- Current writer rejected African bounder
- Antelope
- Guy in Love Island is a horny bounder
- Animal in one pen being mounted
- SA antelope, one in circular path, tailless
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The straight part
We know that "antelopes" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case antelopes = oribi.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ORIBI mean?
ORIBI noun- Ourebia ourebi, a species of antelope.