Sheep kills time in an easterly wind (9)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

REEL = wind as in reel in a fishing line perhaps; reversed = LEER, insert ICES T for kills time. Being in Rutland next to said county, we are surrounded by fields of Tom’s Leicester breed sheep. Very daft animals, they just stand in our road and look at the car waiting to pass. Tom’s Dad says “sheep are born to die “- but aren’t we all?