English judge with official outfit on is cool (11)
I believe the answer is:
refrigerate
'cool' is the definition.
(I know that cool is the is a more specific form of the action of refrigerate.)
'english judge with official outfit on' is the wordplay.
'english' becomes 'E' (abbreviation).
'judge' becomes 'rate' (rating is a kind of judging).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'official' becomes 'ref' (match official in football, say).
'outfit on' becomes 'rig' (synonyms. I am not sure about the 'on' bit.).
'e'+'rate'='erate'
'ref'+'rig'='refrig'
'erate' put after 'refrig' is 'REFRIGERATE'.
'is' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for refrigerate that I've seen before include "Chill" , "Keep (food or drink) cold" , "Freeze" , "Provide cooling" , "Cool!" .)