Putting Spirit Into A Severe Beating Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is LACING which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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Updated: October 14, 2023

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	noun • a small amount of liquor added to a food or beverage • a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment) • the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows
	33%	6		Severe beating
	noun • the activity of keeping something secret • the state of being hidden
	31%	8		Instrument for putting spirit, hot, into excrescence
	noun • a Renaissance woodwind with a double reed and a curving tube (crooked horn)

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The Guardian Cryptic05 Jul 2004	Down 7
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