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Husband and wife changing in tent, perhaps are too hot (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

swelter

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'husband' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are verbs in their base form, I cannot understand how one could define the other.

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(Other definitions for swelter that I've seen before include "Suffer when too hot" , "Be uncomfortably hot as in the sun" , "Sweat and feel faint" , "Be too hot; Gormenghast chef" , "Wrestle (anag)" .)

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