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Literary genius starts popping off every Tuesday (4)

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I believe the answer is:

poet

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'literary genius' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?

'starts popping off every tuesday' is the wordplay.
'starts' says to take the initial letters.
The initial letters of 'popping off every tuesday' is 'POET'.

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(Other definitions for poet that I've seen before include "Rhymer" , "Tope with a versifier" , "One writing verse" , "Masefield, for instance" , "Ginsberg perhaps" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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