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Delivered baby's family needs – material for garments (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

deerskin

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'delivered baby's family needs material for garments' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'delivered baby's family needs' is the wordplay.
'delivered' shows a homophone (sound like) (delivered verbally).
'baby' becomes 'dear' (I've seen this in another clue).
'family needs' becomes 'skin' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'dear' sounds like 'deer'.
'deer'+'skin'='DEERSKIN'

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(Other definitions for deerskin that I've seen before include "Hide" , "Type of leather" , "Kind of leather" , "Bambi's pelt?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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