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Our booze brought into SCG brings punishment (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

scourging

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

'our booze brought into scg' is the wordplay.
'booze' becomes 'gin' (gin is a kind of booze).
'brought into' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'our'+'gin'='ourgin'
'ourgin' inserted within 'scg' is 'SCOURGING'.

'brings' acts as a link.

(Another definition for scourging that I've seen is " punishment".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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