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Beardless son in spotless shelter (5-6)

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I believe the answer is:

clean-shaven

'beardless' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'son in spotless shelter' is the wordplay.
'son' becomes 's'.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'spotless' becomes 'clean' ('clean' can be similar in meaning to 'spotless').
'shelter' becomes 'haven' (haven is a kind of shelter**).
'clean'+'haven'='cleanhaven'
's' placed inside 'cleanhaven' is 'CLEAN-SHAVEN'.

(Another definition for clean-shaven that I've seen is " Unbearded".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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