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Former Poet Laureate associated with Christmas pudding? (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

duffy

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'former poet laureate associated with christmas' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.

'pudding?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'pudding?' could be 'duff' (duff is a kind of pudding) and 'duff' is present in the answer.
A single letter 'y' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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