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Repair on outside of a church is put at risk (7)

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I believe the answer is:

menaced

'is put at risk' is the definition.
(menace can mean to threaten)

'repair on outside of a church' is the wordplay.
'repair' becomes 'mend' (synonyms).
'on outside of' is an insertion indicator.
'church' becomes 'CE' (abbreviation for Church of England).
'a'+'ce'='ace'
'mend' placed around 'ace' is 'MENACED'.

(Another definition for menaced that I've seen is " Threatened".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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