Groomed families welcoming European asylum (5-6)
I believe the answer is:
clean-shaven
'groomed' is the definition.
The answer and definition are not the same part of speech. However, adjectives and past participle verbs can occasionally mean the same thing.
'families welcoming european asylum' is the wordplay.
'families' becomes 'clans' (I've seen this in another clue).
'welcoming' means one lot of letters goes inside another (in sense of 'inviting in').
'european' becomes 'E' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'asylum' becomes 'haven' (I've seen this in another clue).
'clans' going around 'e' is 'cleans'.
'cleans'+'haven'='CLEAN-SHAVEN'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for clean-shaven that I've seen is " Unbearded".)