American poet's name with no apostrophe S, hyphenated originally (4)
I believe the answer is:
nash
'american poet's' is the definition.
(Ogden Nash)
'name with no apostrophe s hyphenated originally' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'name' could be 'ash' and 'ash' is present in the answer.
'no' could be 'n' (common abbreviation y/n) and 'n' is present in the answer.
No letters remain.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for nash that I've seen before include "Beau --. Ogden --" , "Famous dandy, Beau --" , "Famed English architect" , "Ogden --, author" , "Architect of Buckingham Palace, d. 1835" .)