Crossword Genius

Still including a singular poet (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

yeats

'poet' is the definition.
(Yeats is an example)

'still including a singular' is the wordplay.
'still' becomes 'yet' (synonyms).
'including' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'singular' becomes 's' (abbreviation sometimes used in dictionaries).
'yet' enclosing 'a' is 'yeat'.
'yeat'+'s'='YEATS'

(Other definitions for yeats that I've seen before include "Poet William Butler or painter Jack B" , "William Butler .. . . ., Nobel-winning poet" , "Irish poet (The Winding Stair)" , "Irish poet and dramatist, d. 1939" , "he wrote" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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