Providing no shelter or sustenance (5)

I believe the answer is:

bleak

(Other definitions for bleak that I've seen before include "Book by Dickens" , "raw > fish" , "Cold and desolate" , "Bare, inhospitable" , "Cold, bare; a Dickensian House" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.

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