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Face family, cold, having received welcome earlier (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

gothic

'face family' is the definition.
(gothic is a kind of typeface)

'cold having received welcome earlier' is the wordplay.
'cold' becomes 'c' (eg on taps).
'having received' becomes 'got' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'welcome' becomes 'hi' (I've seen this in other clues).
'earlier' says to put letters next to each other.
'got'+'hi'='gothi'
'c' put after 'gothi' is 'GOTHIC'.

(Other definitions for gothic that I've seen before include "Describing some architecture" , "Style of architecture, literatureand film" , "Old language" , "Lurid - style of European architecture" , "Barbarous" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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