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Like seasons oddly cold, doubly icy at opening (8)

Ross

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cyclical

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(Other definitions for cyclical that I've seen before include "Regularly recurring sequence of events" , "Regularly repeating" , "Recurring in series" , "Recurrent (as in chain of events)" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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