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Endless sin, in that degree, will engage Rector and other ministers (6)

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I believe the answer is:

vicars

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

'endless sin in that' is the wordplay.
'endless' means to remove the last letter.
'sin' becomes 'vice'.
'in that' becomes 'ars' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'vice' with its last letter removed is 'vic'.
'vic'+'ars'='VICARS'

'degree will engage rector and other' acts as a link.
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(Other definitions for vicars that I've seen before include "clergymen" , "Ministers" , "those taking tarts to party" , "Members of clergy in charge of churches" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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