They avoid humiliation with visors (4-6)
I believe the answer is:
face-savers
'humiliation with visors' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'they avoid' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'avoid' could be 'save' (saving is a kind of avoiding) and 'save' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'facers' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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