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Frees from lavatory feeling unfinished (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

loosens

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'frees from lavatory feeling unfinished' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this definition defines the answer.

'frees from lavatory feeling unfinished' is the wordplay.
'frees from lavatory' becomes 'loo' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'feeling' becomes 'sense' (I've seen this before).
'unfinished' means to remove the last letter.
'sense' with its final letter taken away is 'sens'.
'loo'+'sens'='LOOSENS'

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(Other definitions for loosens that I've seen before include "Release" , "Unties" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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