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Line taken with infant making incomprehensible sounds (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

babel

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'incomprehensible sounds' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'line taken with infant' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'line' could be 'el' (el is a kind of line) and 'el' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'bab' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'making' is the link.

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(Other definitions for babel that I've seen before include "Noisy confusion of voices" , "Confusion of speech" , "Confusion of voices in a tower" , "Confusion of sounds" , "This Biblical Tower was very noisy, too many languages" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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