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Home team visiting Mr Bean regularly before church (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

residence

'home' is the definition.
(I know that home can be written as residence)

'team visiting mr bean regularly before church' is the wordplay.
'team' becomes 'side' (both can mean a sports team).
'visiting' is an insertion indicator.
'regularly' means one should take alternating letters (regularly take one letter, leave next etc.).
'before' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'church' becomes 'CE' (Church of England).
'mr'+'bean'='mrbean'
The alternate letters of 'mrbean' are 'ren'.
'side' placed inside 'ren' is 'residen'.
'residen'+'ce'='RESIDENCE'

(Other definitions for residence that I've seen before include "flat, say" , "Abode, home" , "Person's home" , "Dwelling place" , "Dire scene (anag.)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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