Scandalous ending? Crossword Clue

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Scandalous ending? Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
2. a movable barrier in a fence or wall
(verb)
1. control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
2. restrict (school boys’) movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SCANDALOUS (adjective)
1. giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation
ENDING (noun)
1. event whose occurrence ends something
2. the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)

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Down

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