Crossword Genius

With “Stop harbouring evil,” winding up (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

closing

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'with stop' is the definition.
'closing' can be an answer for 'stop' (thesaurus). I'm not sure about the 'with' bit.

'harbouring evil winding up' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'evil' could be 'sin' (synonyms) and 'sin' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'clog' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for closing that I've seen before include "Shutting" , "Ending" , "Finishing" , "packing up" .)

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