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About poems being in secret languages (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

codes

'secret languages' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'about poems' is the wordplay.
'about' becomes 'c' (abbreviation for circa).
'poems' becomes 'odes' (ode is a kind of poem).
'c'+'odes'='CODES'

'being in' is the link.

(Other definitions for codes that I've seen before include "Ciphers" , "Word systems devised to create secrecy" , "Sets of rules or cryptograms" , "System of letters etc for the purpose of secrecy" , "morals" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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