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A church intimate with no name, lacking colour (10)

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I believe the answer is:

achromatic

'lacking colour' is the definition.

'a church intimate with no name' is the wordplay.
'church' becomes 'ch' (common abbreviation).
'intimate' becomes 'romantic'.
'with no' is a deletion indicator.
'name' becomes 'n' (common abbreviation e.g. on forms).
'romantic' with 'n' removed is 'romatic'.
'a'+'ch'+'romatic'='ACHROMATIC'

(Another definition for achromatic that I've seen is " Without colour".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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