Cryptic crossword clue
Yesterday’s religious leaflet or a passage from it? 7

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word EXTRACT

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The straight part
We know that "a passage from it" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case a passage from it = extract.
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What does EXTRACT mean?

EXTRACT noun
  1. Something that is extracted or drawn out.
  2. A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
  3. A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
  4. Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
  5. A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
  6. A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.
  7. Ancestry; descent.
  8. A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
EXTRACT verb
  1. To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
  2. To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
  3. To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
  4. To select parts of a whole
  5. To determine (a root of a number).

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