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Everton gutted — thumps in dodgy penalty (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

punishment

'penalty' is the definition.
(I know that penalty can be written as punishment)

'everton gutted thumps in dodgy' is the wordplay.
'gutted' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (to gut something is to remove its insides).
'dodgy' is an anagram indicator (a dodgy or wrong order of the letters).
'everton' with its middle removed is 'en'.
'en'+'thumps'+'in'='enthumpsin'
'enthumpsin' with letters rearranged gives 'PUNISHMENT'.

(Other definitions for punishment that I've seen before include "Beating" , "Penalty" , "See 6" , "That may be fine" , "Discipline" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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