The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 plus 2 plus 3 letter word CUT NO ICE
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More clues leading to the result CUT NO ICE
- Have no effect on unions rising in case of emergency
- Axe murder cases never fail to make an impression
- Showing off count’s diamonds failed to impress
- Knowing about false icon, failed to impress
- Fail to have an effect when cross over lodging in French resort
- Fail to impress, appealing to receive base coin
- In other constituencies, insets have no effect
- Have no effect with bad Count, having headless mice
- Sliced duck in pleasant ambience failed to impress
- Leave freezing block entire? That would make no difference
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The straight part
We know that "fail to make an impression" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case fail to make an impression = cut no ice.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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