The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word HAMILTON
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More clues leading to the result HAMILTON
- Writer with a hangover? This year a poet
- Poet finishes regularly ahead of racing driver
- Musical seen by one lecturer during a month off
- Washington’s sidekick nearly fools poet
- A poet on the far side of loch in Scottish town
- Expression of surprise when meeting poet?
- Heading for Hawick, a poet in Scottish town
- Famous mistress having husband a poet
- … town‘s hotel is about a mile
- Lewis speed merchant moves heroin to Milan
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "Writer with a hangover" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case writer with a hangover = hamilton.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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