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[USER=109010]@Rich54[/USER] Interesting problem. I have never encountered this.

I had the same effect as yours from your file.

But one thing is that when I use a solid fill or solid color adjustment layer instead of any of the color/Tonal adjustment layers they tend to work fine. The clipping works is as intended with the hair.

I also tried to clip with just black, white, and gray solid colors and with less transparency to see if clipping works. It does work as intended.

So, as [USER=69670]@IamSam[/USER] mentioned it has got something to do with transparency.

Here is a small thread that talks about it with a similar problem.

[URL unfurl="true"]https://feedback-readonly.photoshop.com/conversations/photoshop/photoshop-cc-adjustment-layer-clipping-turns-off-adjustment/5f5f45544b561a3d424398e2[/URL]

And explained here-

[URL unfurl="true"]https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/108516/how-do-i-make-adjustment-layers-work-without-a-background-layer-in-photoshop-cc[/URL]