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Welcome suitable clothing -- cold church (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

accept

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

'suitable clothing cold church' is the wordplay.
'suitable' becomes 'apt' (I've seen this before).
'clothing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'cold' becomes 'c' (eg on taps).
'church' becomes 'ce' (abbreviation for Church of England).
'c'+'ce'='cce'
'apt' enclosing 'cce' is 'ACCEPT'.

(Other definitions for accept that I've seen before include "Receive voluntarily" , "Undertake" , "Take on; tolerate" , "Put up with" , "Believe to be correct; take on" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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