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Missionary given lace pants (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

evangelic

'missionary' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'given lace pants' is the wordplay.
'pants' indicates anagramming the letters (UK informal term for 'nonsense' or 'rubbish').
'given'+'lace'='givenlace'
'givenlace' with letters rearranged gives 'EVANGELIC'.

(Other definitions for evangelic that I've seen before include "Old Protestant" , "preaching the gospel" , "Missionary" , "Based on the Gospels" , "Lucan, eg" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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