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People Get Suspended Receiving This Punishment Crossword Clue

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noun

• decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window

• a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead

• the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)

32%8 Lad comes for punishment: he received suspended death sentence
noun

• the Greek courtier to Dionysius the Elder who (according to legend) was condemned to sit under a naked sword that was suspended by a hair in order to demonstrate to him that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was (4th century BC)

29%7 The man's receiving little knock in instances of corporal punishment
noun

• the activity of keeping something secret

• the state of being hidden

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Telegraph Cryptic19 Apr 2023 Down 17
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