Cease and desist? Crossword Clue

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Cease and desist? Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

DESIST (verb)
1. choose not to consume
CEASE (verb)
1. put an end to a state or an activity
2. have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
CEASE (noun)
1. (`cease’ is a noun only in the phrase `without cease’) end

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