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Titanic individuals giving officer brief SOS: ‘crashed against tip of iceberg (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

colossi

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'titanic individuals' is the definition.
'colossi' can be an answer for 'individuals' (colossus is a kind of individual). I'm not sure about the 'titanic' bit.

'officer brief sos 'crashed against tip of iceberg' is the wordplay.
'officer brief' becomes 'col' (short for colonel; 'brief' asks for an abbreviation).
''crashed' indicates anagramming the letters.
'against' says to put letters next to each other.
'tip of' suggests taking the first letters.
The initial letter of 'iceberg' is 'i'.
'sos' with letters rearranged gives 'oss'.
'col'+'oss'+'i'='COLOSSI'

'giving' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for colossi that I've seen before include "Powerful figures" , "Giants" , "Very large statues" , "big statues" , "Huge statues" .)

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