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Preacher's spoken with endless distress around (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

moraliser

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

'spoken with endless distress around' is the wordplay.
'spoken' becomes 'oral' (similar in meaning).
'with endless distress' becomes 'miser' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'oral' put into 'miser' is 'MORALISER'.

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(Other definitions for moraliser that I've seen before include "preacher" , "Ethical speaker" .)

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