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Put away at home, box packed with extraordinary care (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

incarcerate

'put away' is the definition.
(synonyms)

'home box packed with extraordinary care' is the wordplay.
'home' becomes 'in' ('he's home' can mean 'he's in').
'box' becomes 'crate' (crate is a kind of box).
'packed with' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'extraordinary' indicates an anagram.
'care' with letters rearranged gives 'arce'.
'crate' placed around 'arce' is 'carcerate'.
'in'+'carcerate'='INCARCERATE'

'at' is the link.

(Other definitions for incarcerate that I've seen before include "Lock up" , "Put in prison" , "Put behind bars" , "Detain" , "Imprison" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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