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Church features mostly cleaned up (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pews

'church features' is the definition.

'mostly cleaned up' is the wordplay.
'mostly' means to remove the last letter.
'cleaned' becomes 'swept' (sweeping is a kind of cleaning).
'up' shows that the letters should be reversed in order (in down clue: letters go upwards).
'swept' with its last letter taken off is 'swep'.
'swep' back-to-front is 'PEWS'.

(Other definitions for pews that I've seen before include "Church benches" , "Church seats" , "Church seating" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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