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Writers Forster and cummings caught boring host (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

emcee

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'host' is the definition.
(I know that host can be written as emcee)

'writers forster and cummings caught boring' is the wordplay.
'writers forster' becomes 'em' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'cummings' becomes 'EE' (poet EE Cummings).
'caught' becomes 'c' (cricket abbreviation).
'boring' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters must 'bore' a hole into other letters).
'em'+'ee'='emee'
'emee' going around 'c' is 'EMCEE'.

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(Other definitions for emcee that I've seen before include "Formal host" , "Show host" , "present" , "Presenter" , "Announcer" .)

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