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Aged holy man singularly accommodating to Billy Bunter (4,5)

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I believe the answer is:

grey friar

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'billy bunter' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'aged holy man singularly accommodating' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'man' could be 'friar' (I have seen 'Religious man ' mean 'friar' so perhaps 'man' could also mean 'friar') and 'friar' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'grey' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

'to' acts as a link.

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(Another definition for grey friar that I've seen is " Franciscan".)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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