Ice cream sandwiches minister ate at front (9)
I believe the answer is:
eliminate
'ice' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to change as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'cream sandwiches minister ate at front' is the wordplay.
'cream' becomes 'elite' (as in the cream of the crop).
'sandwiches' is an insertion indicator (goes on either side like a sandwich).
'minister' becomes 'min' (abbreviation).
'at front' says to take the initial letters.
The first letter of 'ate' is 'a'.
'min'+'a'='mina'
'elite' placed around 'mina' is 'ELIMINATE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for eliminate that I've seen before include "put out" , "Remove from contention" , "Discard - exclude" , "Get rid of, or exclude from further stage of game" , "Take out" .)