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Ice store - terribly abstruse (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

esoteric

'abstruse' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'ice store terribly' is the wordplay.
'terribly' is an anagram indicator.
'ice'+'store'='icestore'
'icestore' is an anagram of 'ESOTERIC'.

(Other definitions for esoteric that I've seen before include "Tie score (anagram)" , "'Abstruse, arcane (8)'" , "Hard to understand" , "Intended for the few" , "unintelligible to outsiders" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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