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Priest making a name in a high place (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

trevor

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'priest' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'a name in a high place' is the wordplay.
'a name' becomes 'rev' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a high place' becomes 'tor' (I've seen this in another clue).
'rev' inserted into 'tor' is 'TREVOR'.

'making' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for trevor that I've seen before include "boy" , "Man's name" , "Chap" , "- - McDonald, TV newsreader" , "- - Eve, actor" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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