The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 plus 4 letter word ICE FLOE
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More clues leading to the result ICE FLOE
- Traveller of low degree witches followed regularly
- Island athlete once rounding wild fell overlooking lake, hazard in wintry climes?
- Compiled eco file showing hazard in Arctic seas
- Occasionally, finches followed maritime feature
- Sheet that doesn’t stay put — it’s cold!
- Frozen sheet could make one feel cold around centre of abdomen
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The straight part
We know that "hazard in wintry climes" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case hazard in wintry climes = ice floe.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ICE FLOE mean?
ICE FLOE noun- Any type of sea ice not attached to land, drift ice.
- An ice dam (ice jam), a blockage of ice in a river starting with an ice floe in the river.
- An ice stream (ice flow), a type of fast moving glacier
- A flat mass of floating ice, smaller than an ice field.