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Victim outside a church inclined to be moralistic (7)

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I believe the answer is:

preachy

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'be moralistic' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'victim outside a church' is the wordplay.
'victim' becomes 'prey' (prey is a kind of victim).
'outside' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'church' becomes 'ch' (common abbreviation).
'a'+'ch'='ach'
'prey' placed around 'ach' is 'PREACHY'.

'inclined to' acts as a link.
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(Other definitions for preachy that I've seen before include "Tediously moralistic" , "Given to tedious moralising" , "Sanctimonious" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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