### Clue: Priest leaving church leader a true tale translated for Alfred, Lord Tennyson once (4,8)
### Answer: POET LAUREATE 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Alfred, Lord Tennyson once
POPE less P + (A TRUE TALE)* – the "once" indicates that this is a definition by example. Tennyson was Poet Laureate from 1850 to 1892