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Threaten naughty child with death (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

impend

'threaten' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'naughty child with death' is the wordplay.
'naughty child' becomes 'imp' (I've seen this before).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'death' becomes 'end' ('end' can be a synonym of 'death').
'imp'+'end'='IMPEND'

(Other definitions for impend that I've seen before include "Threaten - be about to happen" , "Be about to take place" , "Be looming" , "(Of a bad thing) loom" , "seen to be around the corner" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times and The Telegraph.
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