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Author has month with priest, someone very holy (8)

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I believe the answer is:

novelist

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'author' is the definition.
(novelist is a kind of author)

'month with priest someone very holy' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'month' could be 'ove' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'ove' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'has' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for novelist that I've seen before include "Source of books" , "Writer of long stories" , "King maybe" , "Author" , "I've written" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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