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Missionary has job cutting beer (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

apostle

'missionary' is the definition.
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'job cutting beer' is the wordplay.
'job' becomes 'post' (post is a kind of job).
'cutting' is an insertion indicator (some letters cut their way into a word).
'beer' becomes 'ale' (I've seen this before).
'post' put into 'ale' is 'APOSTLE'.

'has' is the link.

(Other definitions for apostle that I've seen before include "eg John, Paul" , "Holy person" , "Evangelist, proponent" , "Leaps to find teacher of faith" , "St James, for example" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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