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Jack's vocal part of church (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

knave

'jack's' is the definition.
(knave can mean a jack playing card)

'vocal part of church' is the wordplay.
'vocal' shows a homophone (sound like).
'part of church' becomes 'nave' ('nave' is part of 'church').
'nave' sounds like 'KNAVE'.

(Other definitions for knave that I've seen before include "Yet he may be a diamond" , "[COURT CARD] , maybe" , "Jack - the cad!" , "A rogue as in playing cards" , "geezer" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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