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Encourage to go outdoors? He's out, playing and wet! (5-5)

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I believe the answer is:

house-train

'encourage to go outdoors?' is the definition.
(teaching an animal to 'go' outside)

'he's out playing and wet' is the wordplay.
'playing' is an anagram indicator.
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'wet' becomes 'rain' (I've seen this in other clues).
'hes'+'out'='hesout'
'hesout' anagrammed gives 'houset'.
'houset'+'rain'='HOUSE-TRAIN'

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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