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Bad Deed Confines People To Be Corrected Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is EMENDED which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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We think the answer to this crossword clue is: EMENDED

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199%7Exact Match!
234%4 Back a bad deed
334%7 Notorious or well-known for a bad quality or deed

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We think the answer is "EMENDED" which means:

    adjective satellite
  • • Improved or corrected by critical editing
  • verb
  • • To correct and revise (text or a document).

An example sentence would be:

  • • "The author emended the manuscript before sending it to the publisher."
  • • "The philologist emended the text to correct the copyist's error."

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The Guardian Cryptic22 Nov 2005 Across 15
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