I choose one to stop Roman Catholic prevailing (8,7)

Times Cryptic #28671 | 5 Down | 2023-08-02
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

took me ages to stop looking for ‘prevailing’ as the definition, when C*R*E*T suggested current meaning just that; the definition is I being the symbol for current in electrical notation. ELECT = choose, RC has I (one) inside, and CURRENT = prevailing.

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