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Job in the abbey starting off for crafty type (3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

act

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'job' is the definition.
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'abbey starting off for crafty type' is the wordplay.
'starting off' says to take the initial letters.
'for' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'crafty type' becomes 'ct' (this could be a standard abbreviation of which I'm unaware).
The first letter of 'abbey' is 'a'.
'a'+'ct'='ACT'

'in the' is the link.

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(Other definitions for act that I've seen before include "Aussie parliamentarians exert influence here?" , "Behave like thespian" , "Perform - part of a play" , "Start of a drama" , "Routine" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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