Empty odes? Wrong to include a legendary Irish poet (6)
Independent
Cryptic
#12164
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22 Across
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2025-10-03
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:
O [de] S (empty = inner letters removed) + SIN (wrong, as a noun = a bad deed), including A . Supposed author of a cycle of poems published by the 18th-century Scottish poet James Macpherson; it’s been suggested that Macpherson wrote much of it himself, based on earlier traditional poems.