The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word ICES
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More clues leading to the result ICES
- Decorates cake slices not using small lines
- Confectionery from unjust magistrates
- Treats … treats injury
- Big cheese regularly chills
- They’re cold inside, that is, on top of stick
- They’re at the back of the menu
- Freezes chops daughter discarded
- What’s at the heart of most pleasant summer treats?
- Island surrounding church freezes over
- Confectionery from van is offered outside church?
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What does ICES mean?
ICES noun- Water in frozen (solid) form.
- Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
- Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily in solid form.
- A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar.
- An ice cream.
- Any substance having the appearance of ice.
- One or more diamonds and jewelry.
- Crystal form of amphetamine-based drugs.
- The area where a game of ice hockey is played.
- Money paid as a bribe.
- To cool with ice, as a beverage.
- To become ice; to freeze.
- To make icy; to freeze.
- To murder.
- To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
- To put out a team for a match.
- To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.