The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 plus 3 letter word OPUS DEI
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More clues leading to the result OPUS DEI
- Made soup with dopehead, that’s uplifting God’s work
- Poem about matter initially incensing religious group
- Work through Oedipus complex
- Religious group’s Oedipus complex
- Pious heads of each diocese involved in liturgical worship?
- Perhaps miracle ball reversing direction with side spin?
- Group of believers manifesting Oedipus complex
- Sneakily does up one’s Catholic organisation
- A religious organisation‘s Oedipus complex
- Not a conservative, deacon enters terribly pious sect
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The straight part
We know that "liturgical worship" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case liturgical worship = opus dei.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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