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I believe the answer is:

dryden

(Other definitions for dryden that I've seen before include "John --, first Poet Laureate" , "Dry Ned, the strange English poet" , "Mac Flecknoe was his" , "playwright" , "17th-century poet" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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