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Drink to the church with a faultless service! (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

chaser

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'drink' is the definition.
(as in a shot and chaser)

'the church with a faultless service' is the wordplay.
'the church' becomes 'ch' (common abbreviation).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'faultless service' becomes 'ser' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'ch'+'a'+'ser'='CHASER'

'to' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for chaser that I've seen before include "one in the national hunt" , "Milder drink taken after a stronger one" , "Beer after whisky, say (or vice versa)" , "A drink like beer after whisky" , "Hunter; drink" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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