The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word SATIRIST
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More clues leading to the result SATIRIST
- One in dire straits could be Horace
- One who ridicules It Girl in Times
- One poking fun at Murdoch in street
- Deriding writer who’s posed with flower on table top
- He sends up Salvation Army flag during races
- Pope, say, took it out of returning teacher
- One in prison is television’s foremost comedian
- Comic posed with flag above front of theatre
- Ridiculing author I found in dire straits
- Swift, perhaps, educational test facing girl getting tense
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What does SATIRIST mean?
SATIRIST noun- A person who writes satire.