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Note, most poetry is crackers! (7)

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solvers

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'crackers' is the definition.
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'note most poetry' is the wordplay.
'note' becomes 'sol' (musical note as in do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti).
'most' means to remove the last letter.
'poetry' becomes 'verse' (synonyms).
'verse' with its last letter removed is 'vers'.
'sol'+'vers'='SOLVERS'

'is' is the link.

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(Another definition for solvers that I've seen is " Crackers!".)

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