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Bearlike fur is fine when shaving heads (6)

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I believe the answer is:

ursine

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'bearlike' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'fur is fine when shaving heads' is the wordplay.
'fur' becomes 'urs' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'when shaving heads' means to remove the first letter.
'fine' with its initial letter taken away is 'ine'.
'urs'+'ine'='URSINE'

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(Other definitions for ursine that I've seen before include "like a character in 14 across [=>BEAR]" , "Like Paddington" , "Describing Pooh or Yogi?" , "Relating to bears" , "with grizzly features?" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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