The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word TERENCE
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More clues leading to the result TERENCE
- Dramatist in ecstasy after recent plays
- Roman playwright in time before on one occasion expressing love
- Recent disturbances have a point
- Dramatist has entree cooked with a tiny slice of chervil
- Space in canonical hour for Roman funny man
- Rattigan, say, as a dramatist of time gone by
- Core part of stern audience not half doing for Roman playwright
- Man starts to educate novices in an hour of devotion
- Recent plays by key dramatist
- Religious hour interrupted by nut, an old dramatist
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The straight part
We know that "dramatist" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case dramatist = terence.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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