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In holy place I do His work (8)

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minister

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'i do his work' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'in holy place' is the wordplay.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'holy' becomes 'minter' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'place' becomes 'is' (I've seen this in other clues).
'minter' going around 'is' is 'MINISTER'.

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(Other definitions for minister that I've seen before include "Senior politician" , "Holder of office in government or church" , "Form of address" , "Merit sin (anag.)" , "One of the clergy" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun.
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