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God welcomes each song of praise (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

paean

'song of praise' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'god welcomes each' is the wordplay.
'god' becomes 'pan' (Pan is an example**).
'welcomes' means one lot of letters goes inside another (in sense of 'invites in').
'each' becomes 'ea'.
'pan' placed around 'ea' is 'PAEAN'.

(Other definitions for paean that I've seen before include "Panegyric" , "work building up" , "Hymn of praise" , "A song of triumph or praise" , "Encomium, eulogy" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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