Answer: PENAL
PENAL is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 72 times.
Referring Clues:
- Kind of colony
 - Like some servitude
 - Prison-related
 - Kind of code
 - With 32-Down, things that send people to jail
 - Punitive
 - Serving to punish
 - Like prisons
 - Kind of colony or code
 - Kafka's "In the ___ Colony"
 - ___ code
 - Like correctional facilities
 - ___ colony
 - Like the Botany Bay colony
 - Type of colony
 - ___ servitude
 - Disciplinary
 - Kind of code or colony
 - Word before colony or code
 - Word with code or colony
 - Correctional
 - Word with law or servitude
 - Word with statute or suit
 - Word with colony or code
 - Corrective, ideally
 - __ code
 - Of punishment
 - Code or colony preceder
 - Type of colony or system
 - Type of code or colony
 - Certain code
 - Type of colony to avoid
 - Crime and punishment code
 - Sort of colony
 - "In the ___ Colony" (Kafka short story)
 - Colony to avoid
 - Like some laws
 - Punishment-related
 - Of prisons
 - Type of "colony" or "system"
 - Prison based
 - Prison-based
 - Jail-related
 - Of jails
 - Punishment related
 - Re punishment
 - Concerning punishment
 - Pertaining to punishment
 - Related to punishment
 - Disciplinary, in a way
 - Kind of colony in Kafka
 - Concerned with corrections
 - Like some colonies or codes
 - Involving punishment
 - For punishment
 - Like some codes
 - With 12-Down, exile site
 - Word before code or colony
 - Code or colony leader
 - Corrective
 - Prescribing punishment
 - Code descriptor
 - Corrections-related
 - Colony type
 - Type of colony or code
 - Code type
 - ___ code (laws about punishment)
 - Kind of reform or code
 - Designed to punish
 - Like certain corrections
 - Like some codes and colonies
 - Kind of colony in the film "Papillon"
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - August 18, 2025
 - USA Today - April 16, 2025
 - LA Times - January 23, 2025
 - New York Times - February 17, 2023
 - New York Times - September 17, 2022
 - LA Times - January 25, 2022
 - New York Times - October 28, 2021
 - Universal - February 15, 2021
 - Universal - February 08, 2021
 - New York Times - December 25, 2020
 - Netword - December 09, 2020
 - New York Times - November 06, 2020
 - New York Times - November 04, 2020
 - New York Times - October 14, 2020
 - Netword - September 29, 2020
 - Universal - September 25, 2020
 - New York Times - July 31, 2020
 - LA Times - June 10, 2020
 - LA Times - June 05, 2020
 - LA Times - May 23, 2020
 
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