English cleric freely admits Last Judgement is powerful in the main? (8)
I believe the answer is:
electric
'the main?' is the definition.
(electric main is a kind of main)
'english cleric freely admits last judgement' is the wordplay.
'english' becomes 'e' (abbreviation).
'freely' indicates an anagram.
'admits' is an insertion indicator.
'last' indicates one should take the final letters.
The final letter of 'judgement' is 't'.
'cleric' anagrammed gives 'lecric'.
'lecric' going around 't' is 'lectric'.
'e'+'lectric'='ELECTRIC'
'is powerful in' is the link.
This may not be right. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for electric that I've seen before include "Thrilling (potentially shocking?)" , "sort of guitar?" , "Relating to a form of energy 98)" , "Causing suddent excitement - from generator?" , "Full of expectation" .)