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Commend appeal among Anglicans (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cite

'commend' is the definition.
(cite can mean to praise someone in a report)

'appeal among anglicans' is the wordplay.
'appeal' becomes 'it'.
'among' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'anglicans' becomes 'ce' (Church of England).
'it' put inside 'ce' is 'CITE'.

(Other definitions for cite that I've seen before include "Quote (eg, a book)" , "Quote as authority" , "Summon - quote" , "Use quotations" , "Quote (an author)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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