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Confining A Child But Not Upstairs Crossword Clue

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noun

• education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge

• fastening electrical equipment to earth

41%8 Carried a sleeping child upstairs
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40%8Confining or confining someone in a space
verb

• lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

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