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Staggers seeing decoys outside church (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

lurches

'staggers' is the definition.
(stagger can mean to sway or lurch around)

'decoys outside church' is the wordplay.
'decoys' becomes 'lures' ('lure' can be a synonym of 'decoy').
'outside' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'church' becomes 'ch' (common abbreviation).
'lures' going around 'ch' is 'LURCHES'.

'seeing' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for lurches that I've seen before include "|Moves with an unsteady uneven gait" , "Walks with unsteady swaying motion" , "Moves in unsteady swaying way, staggers" .)

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