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Freed from other responsibilities primarily during duty days (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

exorcised

'freed' is the definition.

'other responsibilities primarily during duty days' is the wordplay.
'primarily' indicates taking the first letters.
'during' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'duty' becomes 'excise' (I've seen this before).
'days' becomes 'd'.
The initial letters of 'other responsibilities' is 'or'.
'or' going inside 'excise' is 'exorcise'.
'exorcise'+'d'='EXORCISED'

'from' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for exorcised that I've seen before include "Cast out" , "Driven away" , "Delivered from the influence of an evil spirit" , "Removed spirit" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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