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Church officer and laity, not content but getting on (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

elderly

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'getting on' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'church officer and laity not' is the wordplay.
'church officer' becomes 'elder' (elder is a kind of church officer).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'laity not' becomes 'ly' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'elder'+'ly'='ELDERLY'

'content but' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for elderly that I've seen before include "Mature" , "Getting on a bit" , "Rather old" , "Past middle age, a senior citizen" , "Long in the tooth" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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