Outside church, cut and dried (7)
I believe the answer is:
parched
'dried' is the definition.
(parching is a kind of drying)
'outside church cut' is the wordplay.
'outside' is an insertion indicator.
'church' becomes 'ch' (common abbreviation).
'cut' becomes 'pared' (I've seen this before).
'ch' going inside 'pared' is 'PARCHED'.
'and' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for parched that I've seen before include "Dried out by heat" , "Extremely dry" , "Made dry and thirsty" , "Deprived of water" .)