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Venerable writer of a noted plot (4)

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I believe the answer is:

bede

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'venerable writer' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'a noted plot' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'plot' could be 'bed' (a plot of land) and 'bed' is found in the answer.
A single letter 'e' remains which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'of' is the link.

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(Other definitions for bede that I've seen before include "Anglo-Saxon historian" , "Venerable English historian, d. 735" , "Historian saint; Eliot's Adam" , "Early English historian" , "Adam ___, novel by George Eliot" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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