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Sales talk enthrals everybody in supermarket — bishop may deliver it (8,6)

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I believe the answer is:

pastoral letter

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'bishop may deliver it' is the definition.
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'sales talk enthrals everybody in supermarket' is the wordplay.
'sales talk' becomes 'patter' (sales patter).
'enthrals' is an insertion indicator.
'everybody' becomes 'all' (all people).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'supermarket' becomes 'store' (I've seen this before).
'all' placed into 'store' is 'storalle'.
'patter' enclosing 'storalle' is 'PASTORAL LETTER'.

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(Another definition for pastoral letter that I've seen is " ecclesiastical post".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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