Crossword Genius

Worker coming to one cold region or another (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

antarctic

'another' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?

'worker coming to one cold region' is the wordplay.
'worker' becomes 'ant' (worker is a type of ant).
'coming to' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'one cold region' becomes 'arctic' (the Arctic is a cold region).
'ant'+'arctic'='ANTARCTIC'

'or' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for antarctic that I've seen before include "Penguin's home" , "Region around the south pole" , "Area around the South Pole" , "Of South Polar regions" , "Of far southern regions" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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