With coal, our cubs came out, very calm (15)
I believe the answer is:
coolasacucumber
'calm' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.
'with coal our cubs came out' is the wordplay.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'out' indicates anagramming the letters (out can mean wrong or inaccurate).
'coal'+'our'+'cubs'='coalourcubs'
'coalourcubs' put next to 'came' is 'coalourcubscame'.
'coalourcubscame' is an anagram of 'COOLASACUCUMBER'.
'very' is the link.
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