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Freezing boozer? Well, almost ghastly (5,4)

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I believe the answer is:

below zero

'freezing' is the definition.
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'boozer? well almost ghastly' is the wordplay.
'almost' means to remove the last letter (almost the whole word is kept).
'ghastly' indicates an anagram (a ghastly spelling of the words).
'boozer'+'well'='boozerwell'
'boozerwell' with its final letter taken off is 'boozerwel'.
'boozerwel' with letters rearranged gives 'BELOW ZERO'.

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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