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Poet, priest and where you can read about him (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

eliot

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'poet' is the definition.
(TS Eliot)

'priest and where you can read about him' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'priest' could be 'eli' (biblical figure) and 'eli' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'ot' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for eliot that I've seen before include "One of two writers" , "T.S. --, poet" , "Female novelist" , "Pseudonymous writer" , "T S . . . . ., great poet of 'The Waste Land'" .)

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