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Face a little girl and a wise old man (6)

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I believe the answer is:

visage

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'face' is the definition.
(I know that visage is a type of face)

'a little girl and a wise old man' is the wordplay.
'a little' means to remove the last letter (the word is not quite complete).
'girl' becomes 'viv' (short for Vivienne).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'a wise old man' becomes 'sage' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'viv' with its final letter taken off is 'vi'.
'vi'+'sage'='VISAGE'

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(Other definitions for visage that I've seen before include "Mug" , "Clock" , "Face, aspect" , "A person's face, countenance" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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