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Given church land, bishop bursts into song (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

glebe

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'given church land' is the definition.
'glebe' can be an answer for 'land' (glebe is a kind of land). I am not sure about the 'given church' bit.

'bishop bursts into song' is the wordplay.
'bishop bursts' becomes 'b' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'into' indicates putting letters inside.
'song' becomes 'glee' (I've seen this before).
'b' inserted into 'glee' is 'GLEBE'.

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(Other definitions for glebe that I've seen before include "clerical plot" , "Church property" , "Land owned by parish" , "Piece of church-owned land" , "church territory" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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