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Educated top Anglicans act out church music - PLAINSONG (Church music)

Tense girl, nearly drunk, honest - TRUTHFUL (Honest) If 'Tense' is 'T' and 'Girl' is 'Ruth' then where does 'Ful' come from? It's not part of ('Nearly') any term meaning 'Drunk' that I can think of.

Firstone a subtractive anagram - top anglicans without act.

FUL(l)? I'm not convinced about "tense" for "T" really, so it could be something else entirely.

In Scotland, 'full' means drunk(inebriated etc) - so 'nearly drunk' gives 'ful'.

Thanks guys. Chris, could you elaborate a bit further re 'Plainsong'. I don't understand your answer.

TOPANGLICANS - take out ACT, then anagram what you have left.

'top Anglicans' minus the three letters of 'act' gives (t)op (A)ngli(c)ans.
make an anagram of these remainding letters for the answer

That's great. Thanks again.