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Poetry in colour or vice-versa (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

reversed

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'vice-versa' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'poetry in colour' is the wordplay.
'poetry' becomes 'verse' (synonyms).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'colour' becomes 'red' (red is a kind of colour).
'verse' put inside 'red' is 'REVERSED'.

'or' is the link.

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(Other definitions for reversed that I've seen before include "what the answer to the final clue [Send up and down (5)] might be" , "revoked" , "Put backwards" , "Drove car backwards" , "withdrawn" .)

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