With __ hand (ready to write)

• Enclose, as livestock
• Enclose, as farm animals
• Take ___ hand (write)
• Enclose, as pigs
• Corral
• Secure, on a farm
• "He held his ___ trust to Art . . . ": Dobson
• Enclose, as livestock, and an explanation of this puzzle's theme

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Penin is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France .