### Clue: Divine office that was something unparalleled (8)
### Answer: NONESUCH 
 ### Explanation: Definition: unparalleled
 NONE(the Ninth Hour, one of the fixed times of prayer in the Christian Divine Office, the official set of daily prayers – counted from sunrise, it's in the mid-afternoon) + SUCH(the pronoun for that "something", as in "crosswords, codewords, Sudoku, and such").