Possible Clues:

• Verse the clergyman mostly cut?
• Perhaps Cherie starts to write lampoons and satirical verse
• Whimsical biographical poem
• Minister finishing early having cut a verse
• Parson detailed to hack Bentley's jingle
• Turning up, we borrow a hundred pounds for a few personal lines
• Short comic verse about famous person
• Churchman briefly cut biographical verse
• Lines - nearly 27 cut
• This from Mr Bentley, Biographises intently, As you'd expect from a journo, Unlike some imitators I know