Under church, climbers will find badgers (7)
I believe the answer is:
chivies
'find badgers' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with human feelings as well as being verbs in their -s form.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'under church climbers' is the wordplay.
'under' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (in a down clue, some letters go below others).
'church' becomes 'ch' (common abbreviation).
'climbers' becomes 'ivies' (ivies are climbing plants).
'ch'+'ivies' is 'CHIVIES'.
'will' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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