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After, outside church, visit crooked record-keeper (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

archivist

'record-keeper' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'after outside church visit crooked' is the wordplay.
'outside' suggests removing the centre.
'church' becomes 'ch' (abbreviation on maps etc).
'crooked' indicates anagramming the letters (a crooked or disrupted version of the letters).
'after' with its centre taken out is 'ar'.
'visit' is an anagram of 'ivist'.
'ar'+'ch'+'ivist'='ARCHIVIST'

(Other definitions for archivist that I've seen before include "Library worker" , "record-keeper" , "One looking after records" , "Keeper of records" , "Chronicles specialist" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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