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Releases reported in court in icy spell (6-2)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

freeze-up

'icy spell' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'releases reported in court' is the wordplay.
'releases' becomes 'frees' ('free' can be a synonym of 'release').
'reported' shows a homophone (sound like).
'in court' becomes 'up'.
'frees' is a homophone of 'freeze'.
'freeze'+'up'='FREEZE-UP'

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for freeze-up that I've seen before include "Icy spell" , "Period of extreme cold" , "Cold snap" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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