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Panel set up to provide punishment (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

penal

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'up to provide punishment' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'panel set' is the wordplay.
'set' indicates anagramming the letters (instruction to set the letters).
'panel' is an anagram of 'PENAL'.

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(Other definitions for penal that I've seen before include "Involving legal punishment" , "Punishable by law" , "Involving punishment as by the law" , "Punishing" , "Corrective" .)

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