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Image
of
Jesus
church’s
taken
in
two
ways
–
half
holy,
half
mock
(4,4)
Image of Jesus church’s taken in two ways – half holy, half mock (4,4)
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How the clue works
The definition is Image of Jesus — that's your whole answer straight away if you know your Latin phrases. The wordplay builds it up: "church's" is CE, taken "in two ways" meaning reversed to give EC and then forward again as CE, so you get ECCE. Then "half holy" hands you HO (the first half of HOLY) and "half mock" gives you MO (the first half of MOCK), and those three pieces — ECCE, HO, MO — stack up neatly.