Azed 2196

[saladdodger]

The clue leads to 2 words which overlap (3 letters in the middle) ; consists of clues to the 2 overlapping words, in either order; one of these is normal, but in the otrher the cryptic indicationrefers only to the full word minus the overlapping portion! ......here goes! .....
29a Like e.g. Cameron once welcoming southern European national, perhaps warn one going after bit of ice creamier than the rest? (8,8)
I?O?IEST ESTONIAN

[jim360]

ironiest, in the sense of irony = creamy? Probably as in colours.

Wordplay appears to require Warn = ron... best I can make sense of that is "ready or not", but I'm not sure about that. (and then i[ce]+ron+ i)

Anyway, the only word that fits is "ironiest".

[TheFrogman]

The answer is IVORIEST, a slightly questionable superlative of the adjective IVORY - word play is VOR (Shakespearean, perhaps meaning 'warn') I ('one') after I ('bit of ice'). Azed does say in the preamble that 'one superlative form may be seen as slightly fanciful'...

[jim360]

Ah. That makes more sense. No wonder I couldn't find that... put should have seen "perhaps warn = vor".

[saladdodger]

Thank you BOTH very much - ironiest was the only word I could find that fitted, but ivoriest is perfect!