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Make face consuming good spring eggs in jelly (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

frogspawn

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'make' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'consuming good spring eggs in jelly' is the wordplay.
'consuming' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'good' becomes 'g' (abbreviation).
'spring' becomes 'spa' (spa can mean a mineral spring).
'eggs in jelly' becomes 'frown' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'g'+'spa'='gspa'
'gspa' going inside 'frown' is 'FROGSPAWN'.

'face' is the link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for frogspawn that I've seen before include "amphibian's offspring" , "eggs?" , "Future tadpoles" .)

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