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Prisoners beat leaders in the lock-up's yard night and day (10)

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I believe the answer is:

constantly

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'night and day' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'prisoners beat leaders in the lock-up's yard' is the wordplay.
'prisoners' becomes 'cons'.
'beat' becomes 'tan' (I've seen this before).
'leaders in' says to take the initial letters.
'lock-up's yard' becomes 'ly' (this could be a standard abbreviation I've not previously seen).
The first letter of 'the' is 't'.
'cons'+'tan'+'t'+'ly'='CONSTANTLY'

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(Another definition for constantly that I've seen is " All the time".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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