The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 plus 2 letter word ICE UP
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result ICE UP
- Cup-tie abandoned, dropping temperature causing freeze
- Freeze half-portions of choice soup
- Freeze alloy with metals to make time capsule
- Yes, drink is said to get very cold
- Turning puce, I freeze over
- Occasionally, ditches in a higher place freeze over
- I put last of minestrone in vessel to freeze
- Single container must cover end of wage freeze
- I drink noisily and get subjected to glacial reaction
- Become frosty when India gets trophy, overwhelming England
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