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Faces former newspapers getting information on senate leader (11)

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expressions

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'faces' is the definition.
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'former newspapers getting information on senate leader' is the wordplay.
'former' becomes 'ex' (prefix meaning former or onetime).
'newspapers' becomes 'press' (the press is the newspaper industry).
'getting' says to put letters next to each other.
'information on senate leader' becomes 'ions' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'ex'+'press'+'ions'='EXPRESSIONS'

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(Other definitions for expressions that I've seen before include "Utterances" , "Faces" , "Sayings" .)

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