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John almost making a comeback, or George? (5)

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eliot

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(Other definitions for eliot that I've seen before include "thin material rejected" , "Author of Adam Bede, d.1880" , "T S . . . . . wrote ''The Waste Land''" , "British poet, d. 1965" , "Murder in the Cathedral author" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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