Hotel freebie (3 letters)

{ Answer }

ICE

{ Related Clues }

Chill
Clinch
___ cream
A dessert
Dessert
"Rocks"
Sparklers
Arena surface
Bar rocks
Bar supply
Blocks from the refrigerator
Bump off
Curling surface
Diamond, to a fence
Diamonds, to hoods
Diamonds, on the street
Drink cooler
Ferber's "___ Palace"
H2O, at times
Hot gems
Lemieux milieu
Moll's diamonds
Number in a pack?
Polar formation
Put away
Rink flooring
Rocks, to a hood
Slay, in slang
Surface for Gretzky
Swelling reducer
Treat a sprain
Yegg's haul
Composition of some cubes
Eliza crossed it
"Fire and ___," Frost poem
Kind of age or bag
Kind of beer or bag
Kind of pick or skate
Make sure of, as a victory
Murder, in mob talk
Put away for good
Rosalynn Sumners's milieu
Word with bag or cap
Protection money paid to the police
Something with this is not neat

{ Tags }

away, bar, cap, clinch, cream, diamonds, hotel, ice, it, kind, material, milieu, need, off, put, rocks, surface, swelling, water, winter, word

{ Notes }

The answer ICE is very common and appears about once every 37.2 puzzles.

{ Definition }

ICE as a noun:

1. (ice, water ice) = water frozen in the solid state; "Americans like ice in their drinks"

2. the frozen part of a body of water

3. (ice, sparkler) = diamonds; "look at the ice on that dame!"

4. (frosting, icing, ice) = a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes

5. (ice, frappe) = a frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one containing no milk)

6. (methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, meth, deoxyephedrine, chalk, chicken feed, crank, glass, ice, shabu, trash) = an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant

7. (internal-combustion engine, ICE) = 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

8. (ice rink, ice-skating rink, ice) = a rink with a floor of ice for ice hockey or ice skating; "the crowd applauded when she skated out onto the ice"

ICE as a verb:

1. (frost, ice) = decorate with frosting; "frost a cake"

2. put ice on or put on ice; "Ice your sprained limbs"