Member of clergy nearly late to get ice-cream with sprinkles on vacation (9)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

Member of clergy nearly late to get ice-cream with sprinkles on vacation DEA <d> (=late, deceased; “nearly” means last letter is dropped) + CONE (=ice-cream, cornet) + S <prinkle> S (“on vacation”)