Decorative covering hard to remove from Taoist text (5)
I believe the answer is:
icing
'decorative covering' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both acts as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'hard to remove from taoist text' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'from' could be 'in' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'in' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for icing that I've seen before include "Formation of frost on aircraft" , "Maybe Madeira's topping" , "Sweet cake topping" , "Topcoat" , "Top cake layer" .)