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Ignited fire inside grand church, creating a problem (6)

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I believe the answer is:

glitch

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'a problem' is the definition.
(a glitch is a problem or malfunction)

'ignited fire inside grand church' is the wordplay.
'ignited fire' becomes 'lit' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'inside' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'grand' becomes 'g' (G is short for grand as in a thousand).
'church' becomes 'ch' (common abbreviation).
'g'+'ch'='gch'
'lit' placed inside 'gch' is 'GLITCH'.

'creating' is the link.

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(Other definitions for glitch that I've seen before include "Fault (electronics)" , "Temporary fault" , "Find fault" , "Brief failure" , "An informal malfunction" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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