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Poet's cry is lit up (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

lyricist

'poet's' is the definition.
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'cry is lit up' is the wordplay.
'up' indicates anagramming the letters (letters get chucked up).
'cry'+'is'+'lit'='cryislit'
'cryislit' with letters rearranged gives 'LYRICIST'.

(Other definitions for lyricist that I've seen before include "Writer of words, as opposed to music" , "Sit Cyril down - he's a songwriter" , "One who writes the words of a song" , "Person who writes words for songs" , "The one who writes the words for songs" .)

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