Last seen in:
- The Guardian - Speedy crossword No 1,472 - Dec 24 2023
- The Guardian - Quick crossword No 15,363 - Aug 3 2019
- The Times - Concise - Sunday Times Concise No 1570
- The Telegraph - QUICK CROSSWORD NO: 28,665 - Feb 17 2018
- Eugene Sheffer - King Feature Syndicate - Nov 29 2017
- The Telegraph - QUICK CROSSWORD NO: 483 - Aug 27 2017
- The Telegraph - QUICK CROSSWORD NO: 346 - Jan 11 2015
- The Telegraph - QUICK CROSSWORD NO: 345 - Jan 4 2015
- The Guardian - Quick crossword No 13,823 - Aug 28 2014
- The Times - Concise - Times2 Jumbo 491 - March 24, 2012
Related Clues:
- Screening curtain; seclusion
- Remote and lonely state
- Covering up corporal punishment
- Covering up severe defeat
- Suppressing physical punishment
- Evading capture, delivered a beating
- Lonely state
- Period of seclusion
- Remoteness
- Was obliged to return to almost perfect seclusion
- Loneliness of workers in firm on illegal drug
- Brive's centre notes five to seven forwards keeping apart
- Workers in firm finally retire: in this, they miss the company
- Keeping of women from public view
- Beating concealment