Break the ice? Crossword Clue

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Break the ice? Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid
2. warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt
(verb)
1. become or cause to become soft or liquid

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

BREAK (noun)
1. (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
2. breaking of hard tissue such as bone
BREAK (verb)
1. enter someone’s (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
2. be released or become known; of news
ICE (noun)
1. diamonds
2. a heat engine in which combustion occurs inside the engine rather than in a separate furnace; heat expands a gas that either moves a piston or turns a gas turbine
ICE (verb)
1. decorate with frosting
2. cause to become ice or icy

Hint 3: Anagram

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5. Electrifying people, so to speak

14. Dog howling at night, maybe

15. Vintage bike feature

16. Good name for a yoga instructor?

17. Hairy get-up

18. Wych ___ (tree type)

19. Miss Doolittle of "Pygmalion"

20. Civil rights activist Williams, an associate of Martin Luther King Jr.

21. Splits apart

23. Annual coll. basketball competition

25. Class for some aspiring bilinguals, in brief

26. Led

27. Play casually, say

29. Like some kitchens

30. Harps on

33. MacMurray of "Double Indemnity"

34. Throw in at the end

35. Pulls off

37. Jarring film transition to a new scene

39. Sired

40. Give a hand?

41. Language of southern India

42. Sierra, e.g.

45. Nasty

46. Rainwater reservoir

47. Duane ___ (New York-based pharmacy chain)

49. Figures in "Puss in Boots" and "Hop-o'-My-Thumb"

51. Sickly looking

52. "I don't care either way"

54. Magician's accessory

55. Use of a popular song to make a scene iconic, in film-speak

56. "Your turn to speak"

57. Difficult time for farmers

58. Hot ___

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Down

1. Big name in meal prep kits

2. Tell me!

3. Line of attack?

4. Cause of a boom

5. Material for the blue eyebrows on the mask of Tutankhamen, in brief

6. Mother of Don Juan

7. "Here goes nothing"

8. Brian of ambient music

9. Part of a bass in a jug band

10. :

11. Get new life out of

12. Eponym for a lounge chair

13. "I can't believe that price" bargain

15. Made hay?

19. Uniform

22. Puma rival

24. Setting for the graphic novel series "Persepolis"

27. Transition

28. Competitor of the early Chevrolet 490

30. Sticks

31. Dangerous ocean phenomenon

32. Edible algae dubbed "green caviar"

36. Knockouts

38. Blind followers, informally

39. Friend of Nancy Drew

41. Moor

42. Daily ___

43. Element of a poetry analysis, maybe

44. Baseball's Stengel

46. Sing like Michael Buble

48. Threads

50. Food item whose name comes from the Greek for "turn"

53. Occasion that may involve fine china

54. Common end to an address

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