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What someone counting sheep wishes to be (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

asleep

(Other definitions for asleep that I've seen before include "coiled up?" , "Please be at rest (6)." , "Slumbering" , "Knitting up the ravelled sleeve of care" , "like a kipper" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.
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