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Briefest break since son climbs into bed (9)

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I believe the answer is:

concisest

'briefest' is the definition.

'break since son climbs into bed' is the wordplay.
'break' indicates anagramming the letters.
'son' becomes 's'.
'climbs into' indicates putting letters inside.
'bed' becomes 'cot' (cot is a kind of bed).
'since'+'s'='sinces'
'sinces' anagrammed gives 'ncises'.
'ncises' put inside 'cot' is 'CONCISEST'.

(Another definition for concisest that I've seen is " Extremely short".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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