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Horror writer with twitch - symbolic (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

poetic

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'symbolic' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?

'horror writer with twitch' is the wordplay.
'horror writer' becomes 'poe' (I've seen this before).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'twitch' becomes 'tic' (tic is a kind of twitch).
'poe'+'tic'='POETIC'

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(Other definitions for poetic that I've seen before include "Lyrical like verse" , "rhythmical" , "One sort of licence" , "Relating to verse" , "Flowery" .)

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