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Knight with a poem about antelope (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nyala

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'antelope' is the definition.
(nyala is a kind of antelope)

'knight with a poem about' is the wordplay.
'knight with' becomes 'n' (chess abbreviation. I am not sure about the 'with' bit.).
'poem' becomes 'lay' (lay is a kind of poem).
'about' says the letters should be written backwards.
'a'+'lay'='alay'
'alay' in reverse letter order is 'yala'.
'n'+'yala'='NYALA'

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(Other definitions for nyala that I've seen before include "crested antelope" , "Antelope of southern Africa" , "Spiral-horned antelope" , "South African native" , "one of a herd" .)

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