Sends up creative work and poetry featuring crosses? (9)

I believe the answer is:

traverses

'crosses?' is the definition.
('traverse' can be a synonym of 'cross')

'sends up creative work and poetry' is the wordplay.
'sends up' is a reversal indicator.
'creative work' becomes 'art' (artwork).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'poetry' becomes 'verses' (lines of poetry).
'art' backwards is 'tra'.
'tra'+'verses'='TRAVERSES'

'featuring' is the link.

(Another definition for traverses that I've seen is " crosses".)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.

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