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Church worker's relations from the south? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sexton

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'church worker's' is the definition.
(term for a church caretaker)

'relations from the south?' is the wordplay.
'relations' becomes 'sex' (euphemism for sex).
'from the south?' becomes 'ton' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'sex'+'ton'='SEXTON'

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(Other definitions for sexton that I've seen before include "Church functionary" , "parish factotum" , "Person who tends a church and churchyard" , "Officer of the church on the Irish rugby team?" , "Grave digger" .)

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