Steal lead from church and take a close look round (5)
I believe the answer is:
creep
'steal' is the definition.
(synonyms)
'lead from church and take a close look round' is the wordplay.
'lead from' indicates taking the first letters (the letter that leads the word).
'and take' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'a close look' becomes 'peer' (to peer at something is to look at it. I am not sure about the 'close' bit.).
'round' is a reversal indicator.
The first letter of 'church' is 'c'.
'peer' back-to-front is 'reep'.
'c'+'reep'='CREEP'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for creep that I've seen before include "Slink" , "Move silently and secretly" , "narrow passage" , "Advance slowly and stealthily" , "Tiptoe" .)