Crossword Genius

Divine direction initially sourced in bishop's office (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sense

'divine' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'direction initially sourced in bishop's office' is the wordplay.
'direction' becomes 'N' (compass direction north).
'initially' says to take the initial letters.
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'bishop's office' becomes 'see' (see can mean a bishop's jurisdiction).
The first letter of 'sourced' is 's'.
'n'+'s'='ns'
'ns' going within 'see' is 'SENSE'.

(Other definitions for sense that I've seen before include "Understanding" , "Get an impression" , "See 16" , "Feel intuitively" , "eg Taste, smell" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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