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Icing team arranged as a puzzle (9)

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enigmatic

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'as a puzzle' is the definition.
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'icing team arranged' is the wordplay.
'arranged' indicates anagramming the letters (letters rearranged).
'icing'+'team'='icingteam'
'icingteam' with letters rearranged gives 'ENIGMATIC'.

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(Other definitions for enigmatic that I've seen before include "Puzzling, like the Sphinx" , "with mysterious substance" , "Obscure, puzzling" , "with a mystery ingredient" , "Ambiguous or puzzling" .)

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