The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word BORSTAL
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More clues leading to the result BORSTAL
- Knight taken by chess champion in school
- Regressive boy wrecked last old reformatory
- Wayward lot — and bars — once seen here?
- . Dalibor’s talent stopped by prison
- Endless drill requiring muscles backed in old site of detention
- Take back last criminal in offenders’ institution
- Labour uprising crushing most unpleasant polled assembly of Young Cons?
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What does BORSTAL mean?
BORSTAL noun- A way up a hill in the South Downs.
- Any of the prisons set up in Britain for delinquent boys from 1895 to 1983.
- Any institution which provides education to young offenders.