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Cases in silence put into toboggan (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

luggage

'cases' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'silence put into toboggan' is the wordplay.
'silence' becomes 'gag' (gagging is a kind of silencing).
'put into' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'toboggan' becomes 'luge' (synonyms).
'gag' put inside 'luge' is 'LUGGAGE'.

'in' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for luggage that I've seen before include "gear carried" , "Traveller's bags etc" , "Bags and baggage" , "case?" , "Travelling bags etc." .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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