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Manage part of poem in Old English (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

oversee

'manage' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'part of poem in old english' is the wordplay.
'part of poem' becomes 'verse' ('verse' is part of 'poem').
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'old english' becomes 'oe'.
'verse' going inside 'oe' is 'OVERSEE'.

(Other definitions for oversee that I've seen before include "Supervise officially" , "Supervise, control" , "survey" , "Be responsible for" , "take charge" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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