Poet reluctant to appear in women's magazine? On the contrary (7)
I believe the answer is:
shelley
'poet' is the definition.
(Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822)
'reluctant to appear in women's magazine? on the contrary' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'magazine?' could be 'elle' (Elle is a magazine) and 'elle' is found in the answer.
'reluctant' could be 'shy' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'shy' is located in the remaining letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for shelley that I've seen before include "Ode to the West Wind poet" , "Author of Frankenstein" , "English Romantic poet" , "Writer of To a skylark" , "Percy Bysshe . . . . . . ., great English poet" .)