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Two below by court close to ice-covered tree (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

eaglewood

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

'two below by court close to ice-covered' is the wordplay.
'two below' becomes 'eagle' (eagle means two under par in golf).
'by' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'court' becomes 'woo' (both can mean to romance someone).
'close to' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'ice-covered' becomes 'd' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'eagle'+'woo'+'d'='EAGLEWOOD'

(Another definition for eaglewood that I've seen is " tree".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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