Informed on priest sheltering in outskirts of Granard (6)
I believe the answer is:
gabbed
'informed on priest' is the definition.
The definition suggests a past participle verb which matches the answer.
'sheltering in outskirts of granard' is the wordplay.
'sheltering' becomes 'abbe' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'outskirts of' means to remove the middle letters (only letters on the outskirts).
'granard' with its centre removed is 'gd'.
'abbe' going within 'gd' is 'GABBED'.
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I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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