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I've checked Chambers - ' Prebend, noun, the share of the revenues of a cathedral...allowed to a clergyman who officiates in it at stated times'.

Thank you very much, Rusty and Malone - I found today's puzzle quite hard in places.

I am not convinced that clue/definition is accurate.
Dictionary gives prebends as a share of revenues allowed to a clergyman.
The actual clergyman is a prebendary?

The ill-fated 13th edition gives "prebendary" as "a resident clergyman who enjoys a prebend"

Rusty, on the Times For The Times website it says that 'ODO allows prebend to stand for 'clergy' although prebendary used to be the preferred option'. (I'm paraphrasing because I can't remember exactly!). I think ODO should really be ODE - Oxford Dictionary of English.

Anne Bradford does not have "prebend" under clergy, she has prebendary.
She also lists "God-botherer"!

OK, Malone.
I would be surprised if The Times let a "supposed" blunder like that through. Must be right.
I believe the Oxford English Dictionary consists of around 26 volumes?
Is the Shorter Oxford still published, I wonder?

In my Concise Oxford dictionary, it gives "prebend = PREBENDARY"......
just like that - the former in small case, the latter in capitals.

Not very satisfactory though, is it? As Chambers definitely gives them tow different words with different meanings.

sorry, typo...should of course , read two!

A quick online check shows 'prebend can equal prebendary' in the Oxford dictionaries, Collins and Merriam-Websters - I stopped looking after those examples as it seemed enough.

I used to have the Shorter Oxford dictionary, but it fell to pieces, was thrown out and has never been replaced.