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Confine naughty child reportedly out of bed (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

imprison

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'confine' is the definition.
(I know that imprison is a kind of confine)

'naughty child reportedly out of bed' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'child' could be 'son' (male child) and 'son' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for imprison that I've seen before include "Purveyor of blooms" , "Bang up" , "Detain" , "Put away" , "Incarcerate" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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