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Makes a meal of gritty stuff coming from women's organisation connected to church (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sandwich

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'makes a meal of gritty' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'stuff coming from women's organisation connected to church' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'stuff' could be 'sand' (sand is a kind of stuff) and 'sand' is located in the answer.
'church' could be 'ch' (common abbreviation) and 'ch' is found in the answer.
'women' could be 'w' and 'w' is found within the answer.
A single letter 'i' remains which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for sandwich that I've seen before include "Filled sponge cake" , "Common food item" , "Snack food" , "Golf club" , "See 14" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times (Crosaire) and the Irish Times.
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