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One taking lascivious look round church? (6)

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I believe the answer is:

lecher

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'one taking lascivious' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'look round church?' is the wordplay.
'look' becomes 'leer' (leering is a kind of looking).
'round' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'church?' becomes 'ch' (common abbreviation).
'leer' placed around 'ch' is 'LECHER'.

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(Other definitions for lecher that I've seen before include "He's obsessed with sex" , "Promiscuous chap" , "Person of unrestrained sexual desires" , "Libertine" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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