The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 27881

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About to get off, having experienced vacation in quiet part of Washington sleepy hollow
Absence of archdeacon on a religious devotion NOVENA
Admits a last letter translated for dissident press SAMIZDAT
Am using my 22 here? GYMNASIUM
Border community needing assistance commonly when old El Paso
Came to A&E impaled on cooking utensil AWOKE
Dress code’s solution perhaps for one often depressed shift key
Is seen when swimming (or drunk?) NESSIE
Island house — unfinished hut on poles HONSHU
Large crowd up for exciting tournament world cup
Lens closed twice, capturing elephant zapping insect TELEPHOTO
Low mental age not normally needed for sport eton wall game
Make off before the judge stands up sticks
Man turned up with sentry, polishing off the odd half MOIETY
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Most lucky mother’s self-introduction, returning to be hugged by kid JAMMIEST
Not the one to upset Rosemary, perhaps, in short OTHER
One books royal contest, with audience INTERVIEW
Questions that deal with inflation PUMPS
Rabbit escaping from hawks? fighting talk
Record not the first for Middle America? ENTER
Returns home with invitation to attend? INCOME
Secretaries tease one persistently snappy crowd PAPARAZZI
Take hardly any time to find girl BEATRICE
Those new to management of eg estate occupying old riverside l-drivers
Water, or where to buy something to hold it? adams ale
Well fixed, like some hinges spring-loaded
What has London banks acting badly during trial, mostly THAMES
What’s central to Beijing, according to China JASPER