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Shade upper part of face and tip of nose (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

brown

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'shade upper' is the definition.
'brown' can be an answer for 'shade' (I've seen this before). I am unsure of the 'upper' bit.

'part of face and tip of nose' is the wordplay.
'part of face' becomes 'brow' ('brow' is part of 'face').
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'tip of' says to take the initial letters.
The first letter of 'nose' is 'n'.
'brow'+'n'='BROWN'

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(Other definitions for brown that I've seen before include "Colour (of the PM?)" , "Mixture of red, yellow and blue" , "Tan" , "cook to a rich colour?" , "Former PM" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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