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Secret ice store is in pieces (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

esoteric

'secret' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)

'ice store is in pieces' is the wordplay.
'is in pieces' indicates anagramming the letters.
'ice'+'store'='icestore'
'icestore' is an anagram of 'ESOTERIC'.

(Other definitions for esoteric that I've seen before include "Intelligible only to the initiated" , "Private, confined to a select group" , "Mystic" , "Understood by only a few people" , "exclusive" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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