Possible Clues:

• Measure taken by American in church yard, place of rest
• Dead centre?
• Place to be buried
• Arlington, e.g
• Where one might well end up introducing quantifier into Anglican year
• Leading pairs eliminated from race came late — very grave situation
• Church to measure variable space for graves
• Graveyard church filled early missing regulars
• The dead centre of a lifeless place of late
• Plot of a zombie film?