The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word GLACIER
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result GLACIER
- Around Channel Islands, large unwieldy mass of ice
- First to grow more delicate Alpine flower?
- Icy formation finally becoming more intricate
- Mostly large ice moving?
- More fancy following golf? It’s long and really slow-moving!
- Coin oddly found in unusually large white flower?
- Grand to start with, then more ruffled, one goes slowly downhill
- Frozen mass that’s large, ice endlessly shifting
- Large ice formation? Not quite, out East
- Alpine flower
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The straight part
We know that "Large ice formation" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case large ice formation = glacier.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does GLACIER mean?
GLACIER noun- A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.