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How's your father, mother, uncle and aunt? (9)

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I believe the answer is:

relations

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'how's your father mother' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.

'uncle and aunt?' is the wordplay.
'uncle' becomes 's' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'aunt?' becomes 'relation' (aunt is a kind of relation).
's' after 'relation' is 'RELATIONS'.

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(Other definitions for relations that I've seen before include "Sex" , "Family members" , "kinsfolk" , "Tale-telling" , "They're connected by blood or marriage" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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