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Racy phone message given to working church employee (6)

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I believe the answer is:

sexton

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

'racy phone message given to working' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'message' could be 'sext' (I have seen 'Explicit message' mean 'sext' so perhaps 'message' could also mean 'sext') and 'sext' is found within the answer.
'working' could be 'on' (e.g. a machine is working or on) and 'on' is found within the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for sexton that I've seen before include "Grave digger" , "They went and told the -, and / The - tolled the bell (Thomas Hood)" , "Officer of the church on the Irish rugby team?" , "Church officer who attends the clergy" , "Church official" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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