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Groomed families welcoming European asylum (5-6)

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clean-shaven

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'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'

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(Another definition for clean-shaven that I've seen is " Unbearded".)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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