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Coming back with "Nonsense, you chump, he's a clergyman!" (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pastor

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'clergyman' is the definition.
(pastor is a kind of clergyman)

'coming back with nonsense you chump' is the wordplay.
'coming back' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'nonsense' becomes 'rot' (I've seen this before).
'you chump' becomes 'sap' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'rot' next to 'sap' is 'rotsap'.
'rotsap' reversed gives 'PASTOR'.

'he's a' acts as a link.
This may not be right. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for pastor that I've seen before include "Minister; shepherd" , "To spar with clergyman" , "Church minister" , "Padre perhaps" , "Minister of religion" .)

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