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Directors feed nothing to poet (5)

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I believe the answer is:

board

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'directors' is the definition.
(board of directors)

'feed nothing to poet' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'nothing' could be 'o' (O resembles 0) and 'o' is found in the answer.
'poet' could be 'bard' (bard is a kind of poet) and 'bard' is located in the remaining letters.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for board that I've seen before include "Strip of timber" , "See 9" , "Get on (ship)" , "Plank" , "provisioning of meals" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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