Possible Clues:

• Emotionally distant person, metaphorically
• One result of eavesdropping in winter?
• It always points down
• View implement, we hear, in frozen form
• Standoffish type
• Starters in Indian cuisine involve cooking little except for solidified dripping
• Frozen drips
• Hanging ice; stalactite
• Long hanging spike of frozen water
• A frozen water spike