Pack member's naked face-off on ice (3,2,8)
I believe the answer is:
ace of diamonds
'pack member's' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'naked face-off on ice' is the wordplay.
'naked face-off' becomes 'aceof' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'on' says to put letters next to each other (in a down clue, letters appear on others).
'ice' becomes 'diamonds'.
'aceof'+'diamonds'='ACE OF DIAMONDS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ace of diamonds that I've seen before include "Hatton Garden expert" , "one included in deal?" , "High card" .)