Fitting in the old way to start shaving faces (5)
I believe the answer is:
meets
'faces' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
'fitting in the old way to start shaving' is the wordplay.
'fitting in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'the old' becomes 'met' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'way' becomes 'e' (Compass direction - East).
'to start' indicates taking the first letters.
The initial letter of 'shaving' is 's'.
'met' enclosing 'e' is 'meet'.
'meet'+'s'='MEETS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for meets that I've seen before include "Encounters, perhaps by appointment" , "Comes into the presence of" , "Makes contact with" , "Effectively copes with" , "Joins with" .)