Heating stoked coal on one fire almost turning cold (9)
I believe the answer is:
calorific
'heating' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'stoked coal on one fire almost turning cold' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
an anagram of 'coal' is 'calo' which is present in the answer.
'one' could be 'i' (Roman numeral) and 'i' is found within the answer.
'cold' could be 'c' (eg on taps) and 'c' is found 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 calorific that I've seen before include "for heating" , "generating heat" , "Heat-generating" , "food has such value" .)