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Tough foes do badly with no time for church (5,2,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

house of god

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'for church' is the definition.

'tough foes do badly with no' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'foes' is 'seof' which is present in the answer.
'no' could be 'o' (resembles 0 - 'no' can mean 'zero') and 'o' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

'time' acts as a link.

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I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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