8 down - prepare soft icing (5) - is it pluck? 17 across - many jails are finished, bragged incarcerating duke (11) 0---c-o---s This one's really got me stumped
Thanks - I had it stuck in my mind that 8 down was pluck - p + luck (icing on the cake)
rime is hoar frost (permafrost) found mainly on tundras in the arctic regions.
I had 12 down wrong but now managed to see the errors of my ways.
thanks