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In cracked ice, keep supple (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

elastic

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'supple' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'in cracked ice keep' is the wordplay.
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'cracked' indicates anagramming the letters.
'keep' becomes 'last' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'ice' anagrammed gives 'eic'.
'eic' enclosing 'last' is 'ELASTIC'.

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(Other definitions for elastic that I've seen before include "Stretch material" , "Flexible, adaptable" , "Cats lie (anag.)" , "Stuff that stretches to Castile" , "Castile (anag)" .)

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